Business News Round Up - June 7
Editor's Note: Each week, Water & Wastes Digest will post an aggregate of business news briefs and networking news items to keep you informed on facility openings, business mergers and purchases, changes in personnel and award notifications, among others in the water and wastewater treatment industries. If you have business news briefs you would like included in this weekly round up, please email the press release, photo and a link to the post on your website to [email protected] with the subject line "Business News Round Up." One news item per company per week will be posted.
SES Water Selects Echologics Technology
Echologics will start one of the largest water pipe condition assessment projects in Europe with SES Water this month. Following completion of a successful initial trial with SES Water in 2018, the project includes the assessment of 273.8km (170 miles) of aging metallic mains.
Anon-invasive acoustic solution—ePulse—will be used to that assesses a pipe’s conditions and simultaneously detects leaks. It analyzes information about the pipe material, the time frame in which it was installed, the diameter of the pipe and the original wall thickness to estimate the condition and the remaining service life of the pipe.
BlueTech Names 15 Water Technologies to Watch
The Innovation Showcase at BlueTech Forum 2019 featured more companies than years prior. The water technology companies taking part have been selected from across the world and boast innovative technologies addressing some of the water industry’s biggest challenges.
Potential applications include micropollutant detection, decentralized wastewater treatment, resource recovery, sludge management and zero liquid discharge. Technologies include a cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) system for water main condition assessment, energy-efficient UV-LED drinking water disinfection systems, and a bio-based adsorbent material that can be customized to capture micropollutants from wastewater.
Watts to Host Webinar
Watts announced a customer webinar titled Intelligent Scale Solution to be broadcast live on Wednesday, June 26, 2019.
Geared towards engineers, architects, and specifiers, this webinar will focus on the science and benefits of template-assisted crystallization as a scale prevention technology and how to compare its performance and efficiency to other scale prevention technologies. It will be presented by Peter Hewitt, product manager of OneFlow Solutions.
ABLOY Security To Feature Access Control Solution at ACE 19
ABLOY Security will showcase the ABLOY PROTEC CLIQ Connect at the American Water Works Assn. Annual Conference & Expo (ACE 19) June 10 to 12 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
Jerry Burhans, U.S. managing director for ABLOY Security, said the remote management system offers security managers significant advantages and a user-friendly experience.
Networking News
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) elects Jean-Louis Briaud as 2021 ASCE President.
- De Nora Water Technologies names Dr. Mirka Wilderer CEO.
- ASCE promoted Emily Feenstra to managing director of government relations and infrastructure initiatives.
- United Rentals announced David Scott is the executive leader for specialty operations.