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Dow and IDE reasons to celebrate
Dow Water & Process Solutions celebrated the company’s 30th anniversary in the RO industry last month. In August 1985, Dow Chemical Company acquired FilmTec, a firm that was started in...
Lanxess supplied Lewabrane to Bratislava BWRO plant
Germany’s Lanxess has provided 630 of its Lewabrane membranes for Slovnaft’s oil refinery in Bratislava, Slovakia. The pretreatment system for the 3,240 m3/d (0.86 MGD) BWRO plant...
Mining submarine springs
Freshwater springs are a well-known phenomenon in many coastal areas where rainwater from onshore mountains seeps underground before the less saline, more buoyant water may eventually rise—often...
Gabbrielli spells out his IDA vision
According to Emilio Gabbrielli, the IDA’s newly elected president, the organization needs to conquer new territories and claim a broader portfolio of technologies as its own. Besides the promise of...
Aquatech to supply MED-TVC to Sohar Refinery project
In yet another announcement, Aquatech said that it has been awarded a contract to supply three 5,352 m3/d (1.4 MGD) MED-TVC’s with a 6.3 GOR for Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries...
PWT rebranded and new logo
H2O Innovation has announced that its Professional Water Technologies subsidiary, a specialty NF and RO membrane chemical company, has been rebranded as PWT—the shortened name for which it is...
Membrane supplier’s transition complete
LG NanoH2O has announced that it is now part of the newly launched LG Water Systems business unit created by LG Chem, its parent company. This means that NanoH2O will no longer exist as a brand,...
IDA: On the Horizon — a letter to IDA members
Dr Abdullah Al-Alshaikh is the IDA’s outgoing president, CEO of Riyadh-based Advanced Water Technology and the former Deputy Governor for Planning & Development of the Saline Water Conversion...
Karla Kinser
Pall Corporation has announced that Karla Kinser has been appointed as the director of its desalination portfolio, effective 28 August. She has been with MWH for the past 11.5 years, most recently...
Veteran desalter retires. Again.
Editor’s note: Dr Irving R Moch, Jr, has recently resigned his Emeritus position on the AMTA Board of Directors, marking his official retirement from the desal industry. Last week, AMTA president...
