LOS ANGELES & DALLAS, Feb. 10, 2016 -- OriginClear Inc, a leading provider of water treatment solutions, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Dallas-based Progressive Water Treatment Inc. (PWT), was awarded a key contract, valued at about $700,000, for upgrading and expanding a large boiler feedwater treatment system at a power plant in the Northeast. In the upgrade, a modern ultrafiltration pretreatment system will feed both an existing and an expanded reverse osmosis system. This upgrade/expansion project will bring the existing plant from 400 to 800 GPM production.
For PWT, this is the second large project award so far this year. In January, Minnesota-based public utility, Xcel Energy (NYSE:XEL), awarded PWT a large-scale contract for a boiler feedwater treatment system.
"These contracts are becoming more common as utilities and process industries look to replace their aging water treatment systems,” stated Mike Jenkins, PWT’s Vice President of Sales. “In recent years, ultrafiltration has become much more economical, both from a capital and maintenance perspective. Because it can remove particles as small as a virus, ultrafiltration also provides a superior pretreated feed stream to downstream systems such as reverse osmosis and deionization systems."
“We are pleased that our PWT division is helping to aggressively upgrade older water treatment systems,” said Riggs Eckelberry, OriginClear’s Chief Executive Officer. “In addition to lowering costs significantly, modernization helps to greatly reduce CO2 emissions, helping to combat climate change.”
The water treatment industry produces CO2 directly as an escaping gas and also through energy use. Close to 50 percent of the electricity-related emissions in wastewater management can be abated with plant modernization, according to a recent report.
“PWT is really demonstrating its ability to analyze the performance of existing treatment systems to come up with better solutions,” stated Bill Charneski, President of the OriginClear Group™. “That’s the kind of culture we are looking for as we attract water entrepreneurs to the OriginClear Group.”
About Progressive Water Treatment, Inc.
Progressive Water Treatment, Inc., of the OriginClear Group™, designs and manufactures a complete line of water treatment systems for municipal, industrial and pure water applications. The company utilizes a wide range of technologies, including chemical injection, media filters, membrane, ion exchange and SCADA technology, in turnkey systems. The company also offers a broad range of services including maintenance contracts, retrofits and replacement assistance. In addition, PWT rents equipment in contracts of varying duration. Customers are primarily served in the United States and Canada, with the company’s reach extending worldwide from Japan to Argentina to the Middle East.
About OriginClear, Inc.
OriginClear is a leading provider of water treatment solutions and the developer of a breakthrough water cleanup technology serving the rapidly growing $500 billion world market. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, OriginClear provides systems and services to treat water in a wide range of industries, such as municipal, pharmaceutical, semiconductors, industrial, and oil & gas. To rapidly grow this segment of the business, we strategically acquire profitable and well-managed water treatment companies, which allow us to expand our global market presence and technical expertise. To enable a new era of clean and socially responsible water treatment solutions, we invented Electro Water Separation™, a breakthrough high-speed water cleanup technology using multi-stage electrolysis, that we license worldwide to water treatment equipment manufacturers. Water is our most valuable resource, and the mission of the “Family of OriginClear Companies” is to improve the quality of water and help return it to its original and clear condition. To learn more about OriginClear®, please visit our website at www.originclear.com.
