Modern Water enters collaboration deal with South Africa's WEC Projects

18th Oct 2018 10:48

(Sharecast News) - Water and wastewater technology company Modern Water has entered into a collaboration agreement with South African EPC contractor WEC Projects, it announced on Thursday.The AIM-traded firm said WEC Projects, based in Johannesburg, was active throughout the African continent.It said WEC would promote Modern Water's "innovative and proprietary" 'All-Membrane Brine Concentration' (AMBC) technology throughout the continent.Modern Water described brine as a by-product of many industrial processes, which could pose a significant environmental hazard - both due to corrosive and sediment-forming effects of salts and toxicity of other chemicals diluted in it.Technologies for treatment of polluted brine include evaporation processes, such as brine concentrators and crystallisers employing mechanical vapour recompression and steam. Traditional brine treatment, from recycling to zero liquid discharge methods, was said to be typically complex, multistage and costly, which Modern Water said represented a "significant cost" to businesses.It said its technology allowed customers to achieve higher brine concentrations than traditional membrane techniques, which would significantly reduce the wastewater volume required for the subsequent brine crystalliser treatment."WEC Projects is a leading contractor in Southern Africa and we are glad to have found such a superb partner to promote our AMBC, adding to our other excellent partnerships in India with Advent Envirocare and with Sunup in China," said Modern Water chief executive officer Simon Humphrey."Our AMBC technology is proven to deliver a step-change in performance and is the key step in significantly reducing operating costs for customers and consequently lower operating costs."