Senior management of METAWATER, PWN, PWNT, Board of Commissioners of PWN and government representatives from the province of North Holland bear witness to the signing ceremony.
JAPAN &THE NETHERLANDS, DEC 12, 2018 -- Dutch advanced water treatment specialist PWNT, wholly owned by Dutch water utility PWN, and Japanese ceramic membrane specialist METAWATER have signed an agreement to deepen existing collaborations to promote the development and use of ceramic membrane based water treatment technologies.
Joke Cuperus, CEO of PWN and interim CEO of PWNT: "PWNT believes strongly in the use of ceramic membrane technologies for the future of water treatment and is confident that our deeper collaboration with METAWATER will bring benefits to more consumers and the environment by delivering clean drinking water sustainably."
Yasushi Nakamura, CEO of METAWATER said, "METAWATER believes that this agreement is a result based on our long relationship of trust. Even if it takes a little time we will continue to challenge the creation of a new business formation. I am confident our collaboration will achieve our great success."
Successful Collaboration
The two companies have already collaborated successfully together on CeraMac® plants for PWN´s Andijk III plant, PUB's Choa Chu Kang Waterworks in Singapore, South West Water's Mayflower plant in the United Kingdom, and ewl energie wasser luzern's Sonnenberg plant, Switzerland. Building on these successful case studies, PWNT and METAWATER have signed an agreement for wider collaboration in the field of water technology development, and a specific focus to develop a ceramic membrane plant project jointly in the United States of America.