Modern Water and Kazema promote FO in Kuwait
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NEWS 6 Pall’s first quarter proves to be challenging F or the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, US-based filtration, separation and purification company Pall Corp posted sales of $627.6 million, com- pared with $651.3 million recorded for the corresponding period a year earlier – a decrease of 3.6%. Sales in local cur- rency were flat year over year. Larry Kingsley, President and Chief Executive Officer, Pall, said: ‘The first quarter proved to be challenging because of order cancellations and a reduction in customer volume commitment, particularly in three of our industrial global end-markets.’ ‘The emerging country markets are taking a more cautious approach to industrial capital commitment. Our more resilient life sciences business held up well, driven by 8% growth in the bio-pharmaceuticals markets.’ ‘The team responded well to the situation and is managing to achieve reasonable profita- bility given the soft industrial segment demand. Structural cost improvement and product rationalisation is enabling us to improve margin in the down sales environment.’ Kingsley concluded: ‘As we factor in the first-quarter performance and our current order pattern, we expect life sciences to continue to perform well, while industrial will have a difficult year. We believe we are taking a real- istic approach to our sales forecast that could improve if emerging market demand returns. However, our customers remain very cautious and are allocating more of the current softening to end-market requirements and not to de- stocking within the supply chain.’ Contact: Pall Corp, 25 Harbor Park Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050, USA. Tel: +1 516 484 5400, www.pall.com Modern Water and Kazema promote FO in Kuwait U K-based Modern Water Plc, which owns, installs and operates systems that use membranes, and also develops technology for monitoring the quality of water, has signed a Cooperation and Agency Agreement with Kazema Global Holding Ksch in Kuwait. This agreement will result in the compa- nies working together in Kuwait to promote Modern Water’s forward osmosis (FO) tech- nology for make-up water. This water will be used in evaporative cooling systems – including district cooling and industrial cooling applica- tions – as a practical alternative to using potable water or treated sewage effluent. It is expected that the size of the refrigeration industry in the Middle East will almost quadru- ple by 2015, requiring approximately $19.5 bil- lion of investment. Modern Water says that it is already suc- cessfully operating the world’s first commercial FO desalination plant in Oman and has now become the first company in the world to use FO for make-up water production in evapora- tive cooling systems. Kazema is an established Kuwaiti conglomer- ate and has been active in the industrial sector for many years. It operates in the air-condition- ing and refrigeration industries, and is keen to expand into evaporative cooling, both for dis- trict cooling and industrial cooling purposes. District cooling is the process which sees chilled water produced at a central district plant and then distributed to buildings for use in air condition- ing. This approach has recently gained popularity and is now being used widely in business districts and institutional buildings. Industrial cooling is central to a wide range of different industries and uses chilled water to remove heat from compo- nents and industrial equipment. Neil McDougall, Executive Chairman, Modern Water, commented: ‘We are delighted to be working with Kazema and bringing our technologies to new communities and indus- tries. This agreement demonstrates our commit- ment to offering world-leading technology and shows the diverse ways in which the forward osmosis technique can be applied.’ Fadhel Al Kazemi, Chief Executive Officer, Kazema, has been a key advocate of the recent demand for district cooling systems in Kuwait, and he remarked: ‘District cooling systems have been proven in neighbouring Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, driven by the growing need to achieve energy savings and reduce the environ- mental impact. We look forward to working with Modern Water and using innovative, energy-saving systems to help us achieve this in Kuwait.’ Kazema owns and invests in approximately 22 companies – ranging from those that provide utilities to firms which are involved in contracting, servicing and distributing air- conditioning and refrigeration systems. The business was founded in 1976 and its offices, warehouses, distribution centres and sales out- lets are scattered throughout Kuwait, and cur- rently expanding regionally in GCC, Arab and Middle East countries. Contacts: Modern Water Plc, Bramley House, The Guildway, Old Portsmouth Road, Guildford GU3 1LR, UK. Tel: +44 1483 696 000, www.modernwater.co.uk Kazema Global Holding Ksch, PO Box 26528, Safat, 13126 Kuwait. Tel: +965 2472 1155, www.kazema.com Victorian desalination plant is completed I n Australia, AquaSure Pty Ltd has announced that the Victorian Desalination Plant (VDP) has com- pleted reliability testing finalisation (RTF) – the final contractual milestone for the project. Chris Herbert, Chief Executive Officer, AquaSure, confirmed that the plant had suc- cessfully completed the required thirty-day con- tinuous production test on 17 December 2012 since passing all of the tests for commercial acceptance a month earlier. The test involved running the plant at full capacity – producing 450 000 m 3 (118 877 400 gallons) of high-quality drinking-water per day and delivering it to Cardinia Reservoir, locat- ed in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Herbert says that the trouble-free completion of this milestone was achieved through the expert input of key project parties Thiess Dégremont Joint Venture (TDJV), which built the VDP, and Dégremont Thiess Services (DTSJV) which will operate it. The plant has run faultlessly since com- missioning commenced in mid-2012. ‘We have had the best of the best working on this project. Thiess and Dégremont are leaders in their respective fields of construction and engineering, and reverse osmosis technology and operations, and they have delivered a great result that will be serving Victoria for decades to come’, commented Herbert. ‘People forget that the VDP is one of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects under- taken in Australia in recent years – and in just over 36 months a very great deal has been achieved.’ Herbert also says the project has contributed significantly to Victoria’s economy during con- struction, having awarded around $1.3 billion of supply contracts – with three quarters going to Australian companies and two-thirds of these to Victorian companies. With RTF now complete, water production will cease and the plant will be put into standby mode. The full complement of the operations and maintenance team will ensure that the plant remains ready to deliver water on demand to meet the needs of the people of Victoria. ‘The plant will now be in the hands of the Membrane Technology February 2013
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NEWS
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Pall’s first quarter proves to be challenging
For the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, US-based filtration, separation
and purification company Pall Corp posted sales of $627.6 million, com-pared with $651.3 million recorded for the corresponding period a year earlier – a decrease of 3.6%. Sales in local cur-rency were flat year over year.
Larry Kingsley, President and Chief Executive Officer, Pall, said: ‘The first quarter proved to be challenging because of order cancellations and a reduction in customer volume commitment, particularly in three of our industrial global end-markets.’
‘The emerging country markets are taking a more cautious approach to industrial capital commitment. Our more resilient life sciences business held up well, driven by 8% growth in the bio-pharmaceuticals markets.’
‘The team responded well to the situation and is managing to achieve reasonable profita-bility given the soft industrial segment demand. Structural cost improvement and product rationalisation is enabling us to improve margin in the down sales environment.’
Kingsley concluded: ‘As we factor in the first-quarter performance and our current order pattern, we expect life sciences to continue to perform well, while industrial will have a difficult year. We believe we are taking a real-istic approach to our sales forecast that could improve if emerging market demand returns. However, our customers remain very cautious and are allocating more of the current softening to end-market requirements and not to de-stocking within the supply chain.’
Contact:
Pall Corp, 25 Harbor Park Drive, Port Washington,
NY 11050, USA. Tel: +1 516 484 5400, www.pall.com
Modern Water and Kazema promote FO in Kuwait
UK-based Modern Water Plc, which owns, installs and operates systems
that use membranes, and also develops technology for monitoring the quality of water, has signed a Cooperation and Agency Agreement with Kazema Global Holding Ksch in Kuwait.
This agreement will result in the compa-nies working together in Kuwait to promote Modern Water’s forward osmosis (FO) tech-nology for make-up water. This water will be used in evaporative cooling systems – including district cooling and industrial cooling applica-tions – as a practical alternative to using potable water or treated sewage effluent.
It is expected that the size of the refrigeration industry in the Middle East will almost quadru-ple by 2015, requiring approximately $19.5 bil-lion of investment.
Modern Water says that it is already suc-cessfully operating the world’s first commercial FO desalination plant in Oman and has now become the first company in the world to use FO for make-up water production in evapora-tive cooling systems.
Kazema is an established Kuwaiti conglomer-ate and has been active in the industrial sector for many years. It operates in the air-condition-ing and refrigeration industries, and is keen to expand into evaporative cooling, both for dis-trict cooling and industrial cooling purposes.
District cooling is the process which sees chilled water produced at a central district plant and then distributed to buildings for use in air condition-ing. This approach has recently gained popularity and is now being used widely in business districts and institutional buildings. Industrial cooling is central to a wide range of different industries and uses chilled water to remove heat from compo-nents and industrial equipment.
Neil McDougall, Executive Chairman, Modern Water, commented: ‘We are delighted to be working with Kazema and bringing our technologies to new communities and indus-tries. This agreement demonstrates our commit-ment to offering world-leading technology and shows the diverse ways in which the forward osmosis technique can be applied.’
Fadhel Al Kazemi, Chief Executive Officer, Kazema, has been a key advocate of the recent demand for district cooling systems in Kuwait, and he remarked: ‘District cooling systems have been proven in neighbouring Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, driven by the growing need to achieve energy savings and reduce the environ-mental impact. We look forward to working with Modern Water and using innovative, energy-saving systems to help us achieve this in Kuwait.’
Kazema owns and invests in approximately 22 companies – ranging from those that provide utilities to firms which are involved in contracting, servicing and distributing air-conditioning and refrigeration systems. The business was founded in 1976 and its offices, warehouses, distribution centres and sales out-lets are scattered throughout Kuwait, and cur-rently expanding regionally in GCC, Arab and Middle East countries.
Contacts:
Modern Water Plc, Bramley House, The Guildway,
Old Portsmouth Road, Guildford GU3 1LR, UK.
Tel: +44 1483 696 000, www.modernwater.co.uk
Kazema Global Holding Ksch, PO Box 26528, Safat,
13126 Kuwait. Tel: +965 2472 1155, www.kazema.com
Victorian desalination plant is completed
In Australia, AquaSure Pty Ltd has announced that the Victorian
Desalination Plant (VDP) has com-pleted reliability testing finalisation (RTF) – the final contractual milestone for the project.
Chris Herbert, Chief Executive Officer, AquaSure, confirmed that the plant had suc-cessfully completed the required thirty-day con-tinuous production test on 17 December 2012 since passing all of the tests for commercial acceptance a month earlier.
The test involved running the plant at full capacity – producing 450 000 m3 (118 877 400 gallons) of high-quality drinking-water per day and delivering it to Cardinia Reservoir, locat-ed in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Herbert says that the trouble-free completion of this milestone was achieved through the expert input of key project parties Thiess Dégremont Joint Venture (TDJV), which built the VDP, and Dégremont Thiess Services (DTSJV) which will operate it. The plant has run faultlessly since com-missioning commenced in mid-2012.
‘We have had the best of the best working on this project. Thiess and Dégremont are leaders in their respective fields of construction and engineering, and reverse osmosis technology and operations, and they have delivered a great result that will be serving Victoria for decades to come’, commented Herbert.
‘People forget that the VDP is one of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects under-taken in Australia in recent years – and in just over 36 months a very great deal has been achieved.’
Herbert also says the project has contributed significantly to Victoria’s economy during con-struction, having awarded around $1.3 billion of supply contracts – with three quarters going to Australian companies and two-thirds of these to Victorian companies.
With RTF now complete, water production will cease and the plant will be put into standby mode. The full complement of the operations and maintenance team will ensure that the plant remains ready to deliver water on demand to meet the needs of the people of Victoria.
‘The plant will now be in the hands of the
Membrane Technology February 2013
