WEFTEC 2020
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland (Jan. 28, 2014) – Xylem won a contract valued at approximately $2.75 million to supply Xylem’s Wedeco-brand ultraviolet (UV) technologies to a wastewater treatment facility in the Vigo region of southwest Spain. With a treatment capacity of 147,000 cubic meters per day, benefiting 800,000 inhabitants, the facility will be the largest bio-filtration and UV wastewater treatment plant in Spain.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Oct. 17, 2013) – A record number of 22,589 registrants and 971 companies using 297,400 net square feet of exhibit space has designated WEFTEC 2013—the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF’s) 86th Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference—as the largest in the organization’s 86-year history.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Oct. 8, 2013) – The Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), two leading water organizations, have agreed to collaborate on a broad spectrum of water issues of mutual interest and benefit to the field. The agreement was signed in Chicago at WEFTEC 2013®, the world’s largest annual water quality conference and exhibition.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Sept. 30, 2013) – An impressive lineup of high profile national and international speakers have been confirmed to headline some of the most highly anticipated events of WEFTEC 2013. The Water Environment Federation’s 86th Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference will be held Oct. 5-9, 2013 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
DENVER (Sept. 17, 2013) – Bruce Hauk, a 17-year water industry professional, has been appointed to the Partnership for Safe Water Steering Committee for a three-year term.
CHICAGO (Sept. 1, 2013) – The world’s municipal wastewater plant operators will spend $1.2 billion in 2014 for equipment to separate particles from the sewage inflows. This is the most recent forecast in Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company.
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland (July 15, 2013) – Xylem has won a contract to provide ultraviolet (UV) drinking water treatment solutions to the largest UV disinfection project ever undertaken in Sweden. The Xylem solutions will help deliver clean, treated drinking water to 900,000 people across 16 municipalities. The facility will have the capacity to handle a potential 25 percent increase in water volume to support future population growth.
CHICAGO (July 15, 2013) – Producers of treatment chemicals will generate revenues of $11.9 billion next year in Asia. This is the latest forecast in the continually updated McIlvaine publication—“Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market.”
Water and Wastewater Chemical Revenues, Asa (millions of dollars)