Water. desalination + reuse

business coRpoRate changes spain���s inima bought by Korean company Spanish desalination and water treatment company OHL Medio Ambiente Inima has been bought by GS Engineering & Construction, a South Korean company based in Seoul. GS signed the contract with Inima���s Spanish parent Obrasc��n Huarte Lain (OHL) Group on 16 November 2011 and will finalize the acquisition process early this year by taking over all OHL���s shares in Inima for ��� 231 million. According to GS, Inima ranks 10th in the global reverse-osmosis desalination plant industry. It had sales of ��� 130 million last year and has won desalination plant orders from Latin America, Europe and North America worth Won 2 trillion (US$ 1.75 billion). GS said the industry is expected to post annual growth of 17% by 2016 and the deal secured a new growth engine for the company. Although Inima is a Spanish firm, it has expanded to Latin and North America, so GS hopes it will help its expansion to other parts of the world. Inima announced in September 2011 a contract for the design, construction, finance and operation and maintenance of a seawater desalination plant in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. The El Salitral plant will produce 7.88 million m��/year and is expected to begin operating by the end of 2013. new Dubai base for blacK & Veatch Engineering company Black & Veatch (B&V) announced on 11 January 2012 that it has moved its Middle East office to a new location in Dubai, UAE. The new operation is part of the company���s growth plan for the region, which also includes an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It will enhance the company���s ability to provide local support to further the development of critical power, water and oil and gas infrastructure in the region. B&V���s existing contracts include the Salalah Independent Water and Power Project in Oman, which has 430 MW power generation and 15 MIGD (68,000 m3/d) reverseosmosis desalination. Len Rodman, B&V chairman, president and CEO, said, ���Understanding that water and energy are inextricably linked is crucial for modern infrastructure planning. This is especially vital in arid areas such as the Middle East.��� Dubai-based professionals from Black & Veatch���s Energy, Water and Construction & Procurement divisions have relocated to the new operation in Dubai���s Internet City. It provides an operations base for planning and execution for both professional services and engineering, procurement and construction projects. B&V���s new address is at Arenco Tower, Unit 106, Level 101, Dubai Internet City. Mail: PO Box 57183, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Tel: +971 4 429 6800. nirosoft owner maKes european acquisition RWL Water LLC, which owns Israeli desalination and water treatment company Nirosoft, announced on 16 November 2011 that it had acquired a controlling interest in Eurotec WTT, a leading European manufacturer of wastewater treatment systems. With more than 200 installations, Eurotec, headquartered in Padova, Italy, has engineered and manufactured some of the most complex chemical, food and beverage, and biomass treatment facilities in the world. RWL says that Eurotec���s significant market | 12 | Desalination & Water Reuse | February-March 2012 share in the region���s wastewater and food processing sectors positions RWL to deliver a complete range of water treatment technologies and solutions ��� from components to full-scale systems ��� from a single provider serving middle-market industries and municipalities around the world. Established in 2010 by billionaire cosmetics heir Ronald S Lauder, RWL Water Group is a private holding company focused on creating global water treatment solutions to meet the growing need for clean water worldwide. The group���s portfolio also includes Aeromix in the USA. The combined companies give RWL Water Group an installed base in excess of 3,000 water treatment systems in more than 60 countries, spanning densely populated areas, remote communities and complex industrial sites in virtually every region of the world. new location, same boarD for h2o innoVation ��� Canadian membrane system provider H2O Innovation moved its headquarters and Quebec sales and engineering offices on 15 December 2011 to a new location at 330 rue St-Vallier Est, Suite 340, Quebec City. H2O Innovation shareholders also re-elected the following directors to the company���s board at its AGM on 7 December 2011: Philippe Gervais, Fr��d��ric Dugr��, president and CEO, John G Booth, Andr�� Duquenne, Laurence E Gamst, Lisa Henthorne, Richard Hoel and ��laine C Ph��nix. Among these eight directors, seven are external directors and six are independent. ��� as pwt signs three new oVerseas Distributors Three new distributors in Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa have been signed up by Professional Water Technologies (PWT), the US business unit of H2O Innovation Inc. The new PWT distributors are Sigma Water Engineering (M) Sdn Bhd in Malaysia, TuffChem Environmental Services in Singapore and Crest Chemicals PTY (Ltd) in South Africa. In their respective national markets, the new distributors will represent PWT���s line of patent-pending high-performance reverse-osmosis chemicals and membrane cleaners, including its flagship products SpectraGuard��� antiscalants. rochem anD aptwater announce merger A merger was announced on 9 November 2011 between APTwater Inc of California, USA, and Rochem AG of Switzerland. Both companies use advanced technologies to provide clean water from a variety of difficult sources. They will continue to operate under their current names for the time being. Rochem, based in Geneva, deploys patented membrane modules in integrated treatment systems to clean water on ships, landfills, chemical plants and wastewater facilities worldwide. The membranes used are made by Sepro Membranes Inc, a joint venture between Rochem AG and Sojitz Corporation of Japan. APTwater, which started up in Long Beach in 2009, develops and deploys patented technology to destroy tough-to-treat contaminants that have rendered otherwise valuable water useless - contaminants such as pharmaceutical byproducts, trace organics, nitrates and hexavalent chromium. APTwater systems can create

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