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News
Evoqua agrees to divest Memcor 1
product line to enable it to focus on core technologies H2O Innovation strengthens its speciality chemicals business by acquiring Genesys 1 & 14
Nanofibre membranes have double the flux of ones that have been cast 2
Evoqua buys a stake in specialist firm that treats complex waste streams 2
BASF signs agreement to sell its UF membrane business to DuPont 2
Toray supplies RO membranes for use in Saudi desalination plants 3
H2O Innovation’s O&M business renews five contracts in the USA 3
Porvair uses FILTECH 19 to promote metal FMC media 3
Saltworks’ RO technology aims to reduce the cost of ZLD and MLD 4
Fluence raises capital to partly help it to expand geographically 4
De Nora opens US greenfield plant for producing electrodes 4
Asahi Kasei builds plant for spinning hollow-fibre membranes 5
De.mem’s proprietary MF membrane is targeted at clients in the food and beverage industry 14

News Focus
Interest in and use of Fluence’s SUBRE and Aspiral technologies continue to grow 5

Technology Focus
Group of speciality membranes developed to treat challenging industrial wastewater 8
Novel NF membrane triples water permeability whilst selectively removing components from raw water 9

Regulars
In Brief 3
Research Trends 10
Patents 12
Events Calendar 14