USFilter wins drinking water membrane system order

Weir Westgarth to buy African membrane company

USFilter wins drinking water membrane system order US Filter USX5.3

Corporation million

has won

contract

Carmichael

Water

California,

USA

District

with

Continuous

Microfiltration system

for

production

of potable

water.

The

filtration

system

to

Weir

Westgarth, Group,

acquire

part of the British has announced

Envig

South

Holdings

Africa

(USr5.9

for

it is to (Pty)

R37.3

environmental separation industrial applications.

and Botswana.

In

the

Westgarth together

Holdings,

provides

engineering technologies

Membrctek

but has offices

of

million

million).

Envig

Cape Town, Johannesburg

and

of projects.

recently,

treatment

they

plant

station

for

electricity

plant produces in

of

treated

Weir

on a number

African

and wastewater

years

have worked

for

It is headquartered

two

supplied

to Tutuka

Eskom,

the generator. water

tower

The

power South The from

new

named

blow-down

and

a day of surface

the

American

Weir

One spin-off companies together plants Weir’s

to

Envig

up

will

satisfying

the new

be

water

of the deal is that both

skids,

with

will

modules,

in

Glasgow, work

supp.1~ osmosis

stage flash technologies.

UK. closely

desalination market,

using

and multi-

treat

and future

A of 2

96

membrane

gallons

enable

water.

This

the plant

water

to process

than 98% of its water

supply

water.

US Filter

is working

with

engineer,

Montgomery

Watson

Engineers,

on this project.

Montgomery

Watson

closely

USFilter’s

with

the

Facility,

largest

surface

water

plant

currently

in

US.

Carmichael

District

is a publicly

operated

agency

38 000

is

microoperating Water

owned

that serves

residents

by August

USFilter

Corporation,

Tel: i-1 508 3474578;

Filtration

to be

2000.

441 Main Street, Sturbridge, 01566-0036, USA.

fax: +I

and about

in Sacramento

The plant is expected

up and running Contact:

Water which

filtration

County.

other recently

Kenosha

Treatment

the

Memcor on

including

commissioned the

has worked

subsidiary

projects,

1999

the

design

Products

October

to

a day of

of the back-wash

into potable

4

US

consisting

back-wash

more

of

Giardia,

is also being supplied

filtering will

The also

regulations.

unit,

1 million

filter

from

removal and

drinking

CMF

and

water

to 6-log

separate

a total

River. system will

be

will and

to the African reverse

provide

consists

16 million

gallons

Cryptosporidium

company

headquartered a

over 12 000m3/day process

cooling

excess mine water,

and Envig

such as its

membranes, effluent

Most

last

in both

the

modules, treat

microfiltration Weir

(CMF)

skids, with

of 1080 membrane is designed

in

a Memcor

membrane

of 12 membrane

a

to supply

508 347 7049.

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