A battery manufacturing facility in Sweden will use wastewater for its cooling needs. Northvolt is building a battery factory adjacent to a Volvo plant in Torsland. Using potable water for cooling is not ideal, so the company will use the effluent treated at the local sewage plant to fulfill its cooling requirements.

A heavy industry company in Chile will utilize electrodialysis reversal technology to recycle its wastewater. The FlexEDR system, provided by Richmond, B.C.-based Saltworks in partnership with Chile’s VIGAflow, will use Saltworks’ proprietary ion-exchange membranes.

Tesco Controls Inc., a control system solutions provider for the water/wastewater industry, acquired Trimax Systems Inc. Trimax is a Southern California-based systems integrator serving the water/wastewater market.

The continued high cost of fresh water and environmental concerns are causing industrial plants to expand and explore their wastewater reuse options. 

Suez, together with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), completed the acquisition of GE Water & Process Technologies (GE Water) for approximately $3.4 billion.

A jury of industry experts selected 14 innovative technologies from a record number of entries to vie for this year’s Aquatech Innovation Award.

Evoqua acquired ADI Systems, Lange Containment and Geomembrane Technologies from ADI Group Inc.

Timothy Keister, chief chemist at ProChemTech International, certified water technologist and Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists, received U.S. patent, #9,580,343, for conversion of Marcellus gas well production and flow back wastewaters into salable chemical products.

Evoqua Water Technologies signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Environmental Treatment Systems Inc., a provider of engineered solutions to the industrial wastewater market.

Automatic self-cleaning filter works with proprietary sensor technology to measure the buildup of solids electronically and automatically activate the valve to purge them.