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Inauguration of biological wastewater treatment plant at LANXESS

LANXESS has commissioned a new wastewater treatment plant at its Belgium Kallo/Antwerp site. The special chemicals company invested around EUR 12 million in the plant, which has a treatment capacity of around 260,000 liters of wastewater per hour.LANXESS thoroughly modernized and expanded the existing water treatment plant to comply with the stricter environmental legislation. It was a challenging job because the plant had to remain operational throughout the renovation. The wastewater treatment plant not only processes the wastewater from the LANXESS plants on the site, for the production rubber chemicals…

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FUKUI COMPUTER Partners with Bentley Systems to Promote Digital Transformation in Japan’s Infrastructure Field

FUKUI COMPUTER, Inc (Head Office: Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture; President: Tadashi Sugita), the CAD vendor for the construction industry, has entered into a strategic partnership with Bentley Systems (Head Office: Exton, Pennsylvania, USA; CEO: Greg Bentley), the infrastructure engineering software company, to accelerate the adoption of digital workflows in the Japanese construction industry and support the promotion of digital transformation (DX) in the infrastructure field.In Japan, there are concerns about the increasing shortage of labor in the infrastructure field, which is impacting the ability to take measures to mitigate aging…

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NX Filtration part of ACCIONA-led initiative to eliminate emerging pollutants from water sources

NX Filtration, the global provider of breakthrough direct nanofiltration technology for pure and affordable water, announces its participation in the European innovation project LIFE PRISTINE, led by ACCIONA S.A. The project’s objective is to eliminate emerging contaminants in the integral water cycle, one of the essential measures to promote alternative water resources in the face of water scarcity, which affects more than 2.8 billion people worldwide.o The LIFE PRISTINE project has a budget of 4 million euros and is coordinated by ACCIONA, the Spanish sustainable infrastructure solutions group. Next to…

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Advent International and LANXESS announce future global business structure and designated management team members for envisaged High Performance Engineering Materials joint venture

Following the announcement of Calum MacLean as CEO-designate, Advent International (“Advent”) and LANXESS AG (“LANXESS”) announce the envisaged global business structure and designated extended management team of the envisaged High Performance Engineering Materials joint venture (“JV”).Upon closing of the transaction, the JV will be organized into three global business divisions: Performance Materials (comprising DEM Performance Polymers and HPM Engineering Plastics), Specialty Materials (comprising DEM Specialties and HPM Tepex), and Intermediates (comprising HPM Intermediates and DEM Polymer & Films). This structure will take into consideration the specific market characteristics and management…

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STL becomes the world’s first optical manufacturer to be ‘Zero Liquid Discharge’ certified

STL, one of the industry’s leading integrators of digital networks today announced that 100% of its Indian manufacturing facilities are now Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) certified by Deutsch Quality Systems (DQS India). This is a great milestone for STL in its UN SDG goal of attaining ‘Water Positivity by 2030’.While India only has 4% of the world’s freshwater reserves at present, the demand will rise by over 70% by 2025, stressing water supply chains like never before. For STL, water management is a top priority in its materiality matrix. This…

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Vitens and NX Filtration start pilot for testing Ijssel river water as potential source for drinking water

Vitens, the largest drinking water utility in the Netherlands, is starting a pilot program with NX Filtration, the global provider of breakthrough direct nanofiltration (dNF) technology for pure and affordable water. In the pilot program, Vitens will use NX Filtration’s dNF membrane technology to produce drinking or industrial process water from the Dutch Ijssel river. The pilot program of Vitens is expected to run from October 2022 to Fall 2024.Today, groundwater is Vitens’ primary source for high quality and reliable drinking water production. As a response to growing demand for…

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Water Recycle, Reuse & Zero Liquid Discharge

By Mangesh Dashrath Surve, Founder- Managing Director (MD), Envicare Technologies Pvt. Ltd.Water is the most precious thing on our planet. It can be called the only true elixir of life. However, wastewater has impacted water levels and water quality.It is where wastewater management comes into the picture and can become a vital force in saving water. There are mainly three ways to deal with wastewater for far-reaching impact. WASTEWATER REUSE :Reusing anything is a classic way of ensuring that the item lasts long, gets utilised in a long term and…

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IDEAL IFASTM CASE STUDY: SHARJAH WWTP, SHARJAH, UAE

By World Water Works BACKGROUNDSharjah Municipality of the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) was requiring to treat more and more flow despite having very little space for new treatment systems. They were looking at wanting to expand their plants No. 4 & No. 5 plants to meet new total nitrogen limits and try to do so by having to reuse the existing systems. Sharjah’s engineer, having worked with other large cities around the world, upgrading them to meet new lower effluent permit requirements relating to Total Nitrogen and Ammonia- Nitrogen, showed…

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Taiwan International Water Week (TIWW) 2022 Concluded with Great Success, Promoting New Opportunities for Sustainable Water Resources and Cross-Industry Cooperation

TIWW 2022 concluded with great success on October 15. Featuring water reclamation and recycling, TIWW gathered over 80 government authorities and leading enterprises around the world, including the Water Resources Agency, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hui Min Environmental Tech, LCY Chemical, GSD Envi-Tech, Gung Dai, TankPAC Industries, Fluence and Veolia Water. These heavyweights presented the total solutions in water, including wastewater treatment, seawater desalination, and smart water management. As Taiwan’s only international tradeshow dedicated to the water industry, TIWW 2022 brought over 2,600 visitors across different industries, which included the…

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Zero Liquid Discharge, Policy Scenerio and Indian Textile Industries

By Manoj Nainani, Executive Director, Egis India Over the years, growth of population, expansion of industry and infrastructures has resulted in accelerated depletion of the natural water supplies and created water stress regions around the world. Further, to preserve natural resources from overburdening and pollution; stringent environmental regulations are being enforced. This requires additional technology interventions prior to waste water discharge and to undertake water management practices. Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) is a comparatively recent development in waste water treatment that totally eliminates requirement of waste water discharge to the…

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