| 06/23/2008 | | | Singapore is cutting-edge for further expansion of Siemens Water Technologies – Growing business with Innovative Solutions and by Proximity to Customers in Asia Pacific |
| Siemens Water Technologies in Singapore has started providing water treatment solutions and services in South East Asia, India and China. “We expand our business network out from Singapore with innovative products, water treatment solutions and operational services in order to reinforce our local presence and our proximity to the customer”, explained Chuck Gordon, CEO of Siemens Water Technologies, to the press in Singapore on Monday. He is expecting “considerable” further growth in the Asia Region thanks to establishing the worldwide R&D Center of Water Technologies in Singapore. “Unlike elsewhere Singapore public authorities and research institutes have proactively identified the urgency of water management and the need for innovative technological solutions and services”, Gordon said. This provides an ideal background for further expansion of business.
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| 06/23/2008 | | | Siemens and Singapore’s PUB cooperate on full-scale MBR validation plant at Changi Water Reclamation Plant |
| Siemens Water Technologies and the Singapore Public Utility Board (PUB) have agreed to cooperate on a full-scale membrane bioreactor testing facility at PUB’s Changi Water Reclamation Plant. The new, 250,000 gpd (1.0 million liter/day) MBR system will treat domestic wastewater and test new innovative design parameters for the Siemens MBR system. PUB will provide the location for the new plant, while Siemens will be responsible for all operation and maintenance aspects of the validation plant. Siemens expects the plant to be in operation for a minimum of five years.
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| 06/09/2008 | | | Siemens Water Technologies to Supply Water Treatment Equipment for City of Galesburg, Illinois |
| The City of Galesburg, Illinois has selected Siemens Water Technologies to provide equipment for a new $17.5M water treatment plant to be located near Oquawka, Illinois. Currently, the city obtains its groundwater from an aquifer near Oquawka, which is located along the Mississippi River. The water is chlorinated and then pumped approximately 56 km (30 miles) to an existing treatment facility in Galesburg. Over time, the high level of chlorine has corroded the pipeline, and sections of it must be replaced. The new plant near Oquawka will allow the water to be treated closer to the source before sending it to Galesburg, thus reducing the amount of chlorine required. The 45-MLD (12-MGD) plant is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2010.
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| 06/09/2008 | | | Siemens Celebrates 25 Years of Membrane Innovation |
| This year marks the 25th anniversary of the MEMCOR membrane filtration product line of Siemens Water Technologies. These innovative membranes have been installed in thousands of drinking water, wastewater reuse and industrial plants worldwide, offering a sustainable, reliable and cost-effective solution to these plants’ water management needs.
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| 06/09/2008 | | | Chlorination as a Drinking Water Disinfectant: 100 Years and Counting |
| This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most significant public health advancements of the millennium: the introduction of drinking water chlorination on a large scale. In 1908, the Jersey City, New Jersey Water Works became the first U.S. water system to chlorinate on a permanent basis. The practice spread to other areas of the country, virtually eliminating waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery and hepatitis A. Sodium hypochlorite (chlorine bleach) in the parts-per-million level was added to water to eliminate the micro-organisms that caused the waterborne disease outbreaks. Hypochlorite, however, was not easy to handle, and application at low feed rates was difficult and often unreliable. This problem was solved in 1913 by the Wallace & Tiernan Company with the invention of a chlorine gas feeder they aptly named the chlorinator.
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| 05/05/2008 | | | The new SFC series: systematic measuring and controlling |
| The flexible SFC devices from Siemens Water Technologies constitute a new measuring and controlling series which complements the concept of the multi-functional MFC system. The SFC series is intended for single measurements of water parameters as is necessary in simple applications. One main function is controlled chemical dosing which is used when disinfectant has to be added, for example. The series of devices matches the MFC system not only in terms of design and dimensions but also in terms of the range of functions. The two types of device are based on the same software and can therefore be combined and communicate with each other via a CAN bus.
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| 04/02/2008 | | | Siemens Receives Contract Worth 60 million Euros for a Water Transmission System in Saudi Arabia |
| Siemens Industry has been awarded a contract to provide the equipment for a long-distance pipeline which is to supply water to settlement areas in Saudi Arabia. Eight pumping stations will transport water over more than 900 kilometers of pipelines at a rate of 400,000 cubic meters per day. With the new 'Shuqaiq Water Transmission System', households in inhabited areas which are mainly in the northern and eastern parts of the country will be supplied with potable water from the Shuqaiq desalination plant on the south-west coast. The contract has a volume of 60 million euros and the pipeline system will start operating at the beginning of 2010.
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| 03/03/2008 | | | Siemens Acquires Chemitreat Group to Expand Water Treatment Technology and Services in Asia-Pacific |
| Siemens announced today that it has acquired the Singapore-based private limited Chemitreat Group to expand the water treatment business in South East Asia. Chemitreat will become part of Water Technologies, a business unit of Siemens’ Industry Solutions division. With sales of more than EUR25 million in 2007 and 240 employees, Chemitreat provides water treatment technologies and services in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and China.
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| 02/29/2008 | | | Siemens Water Technologies expands its presence in the Middle East |
| With the formation of a new competence center in Abu Dhabi and in Riyadh, Siemens Water Technologies (SWT) is expanding its presence in the Middle East. "The growing need for water in the cities as well as increasing demand in industry, including more stringent environmental requirements for industries such as oil & gas, require new measures for water and wastewater treatment in this region", explained Roland Fischer, who is responsible for SWT business development in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Siemens will consolidate its presence in the region and expand its range of water and waste treatment services and solutions through investments of around 10 million US dollars, expanded employment of around 30 new process and application engineers, and chemists by 2010, and use of local Siemens manufacturing facilities.
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| 02/15/2008 | | | Siemens Water Technologies Equipment Selected for the Aurora, Colorado, USA Prairie Waters Project |
| Siemens Water Technologies has received a 1.95 million euros ($2.9M) award to supply equipment for the new 189-MLD (50-MGD) Aurora Reservoir Water Treatment Plant, which is part of the Prairie Waters Project for the City of Aurora, Colorado, USA. Water from the South Platte River will be piped 54 km (34 miles) to the water purification plant, where it will undergo softening, filtration, ultraviolet light oxidation and activated carbon adsorption before being distributed. The softening equipment supplied by Siemens includes four 47-MLD (12.5-MGD) Contrafast high rate sludge thickening clarifiers for installation in concrete basins. Siemens will also supply 70 ESSD stainless steel washtroughs for placement in media filters and activated carbon adsorption cells. The project will provide a sustainable supply of high quality water to meet the City’s demands into the 2020’s. Both of the City’s existing water treatment plants received the Phase 3, Director Award from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) Partnership for Safe Water, and the new plant is designed to continue to meet this commitment to water quality. The first phase of the new plant is scheduled for startup in 2010.
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