As the $26 billion water and wastewater treatment chemicals market shifts to Asia, international companies are re-positioning to maintain share and offset some of the advantages created for local Asian companies. These developments are reported in McIlvaine Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market. The 2015 revenues will increase to $26.4 billion of which more than 50 percent will be generated ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $300 million facility agreement with Sound Global to improve rural wastewater management using innovative technologies across the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Using the new technology, the project aims to treat 240,000 tons of wastewater per day in 100 townships by 2017. The enormous volume of wastewater generated by the PRC’s rural areas – home to a half o ...

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $300m facility agreement with Sound Global to improve rural wastewater management in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in a bid to help improve the quality of life of rural communities. Waste water The loan will be used to develop innovative technologies to help treat 240,000 tons of wastewater per day in 100 Chinese townships by 2017. ADB said the huge amount o ...

US private equity firm KKR & Co and Chinese state-backed CITIC Ltd plan to buy Singapore water treatment company United Envirotech Ltd (UEL) for S$1.9 billion ($1.5 billion). The consortium, through its joint venture company CKM (Cayman) Company Ltd, has made a joint bid of S$1.65 a share in cash and a comparable offer for convertible bonds held by KKR in a transaction valuing the Singapore-listed compa ...

SUEZ to design, construct and operate a desalination plant at the new Mirfa Independent Water and Power Project in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Hyundai Engineering & Construction has officially selected Degrémont, a subsidiary of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, to build the reverse osmosis (RO) seawater desalination plant of the Mirfa Independent Water and Power Project (Mirfa IWPP) in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Abu Dha ...

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501 / “Hitachi”) and Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE and NYSE: VE), through its subsidiary OTV (“Veolia”), announced today that a consortium formed by their two companies, along with Egyptian engineering firm ArabCo, has received an order from the Iraqi Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of pretreatment faciliti ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a ground-breaking agreement in partnership with 13 banks to support Beijing Enterprises Water Group Company (BEWG) to promote high standard wastewater treatment and reuse in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The $288 million B-loan agreement, signed today, is the largest such loan arranged by ADB. The B-loan is part of ADB's financing package to the project, w ...

GE has announced it will provide PGE Energia Natury PEW with 16 of its 2.5-100 wind turbines to power the 40 MW Karwice wind farm, located 15 km from Darlowo, Poland. "The 16 turbines that we will be providing for the Karwice project will add to our current Poland installed base of 155 units and increase the total output power capabilities of our wind turbines in Poland to 372 MW," notes Cliff Harris, gener ...

Tapped to Apply Award-Winning Forward Osmosis Technology to Treat Wastewater from China's Growing Power Market Oasys Water, a world leader in innovative solutions for water treatment and desalination, today announced its first international commercial application underscoring successful partnership development efforts in the Chinese market. The Changxing Power Plant, located in China’s northern Zhejiang pro ...

Water-starved South Asia creates 'Rice Bucket Challenge' Water-starved South Asian nations have devised their own answer to the Ice Bucket Challenge taking the social media world by storm, instead filling buckets with rice and other supplies for the needy. Since June, thousands of people worldwide have doused themselves with a bucket of icy water, then posted a video recording of the stunt online and challe ...