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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MA