Water and wastewater treatment specialist Fluence Corporation Limited (ASX: FLC) has signed a binding agreement with Chinese engineering form Qingshuiyuan Environmental Company (QSY) for the design, construction and operation of its first commercial, fully packaged, containerised C-MABR plant in China.
To have a capacity of 300,000 liters/day, the system is expected to be commissioned by December 2017 in Luoyang City, Henan Province in China.
Fluence CEO and Managing Director Henry Charrabé said the agreement is part of a broader long-term cooperation agreement between Fluence and QSY.
He said the cooperation agreement aims to promote Fluence’s advanced MABR technology and establish a close strategic cooperation relationship with QSY covering the Xinjiang, Henan and Sichuan Provinces, and other areas in China. Both parties are working closely on project site selection and technology optimisation.
“We are excited to announce our first Smart Packaged C-MABR project with QSY,” Mr Charrabé said.
“This project follows the MoU entered into with QSY in May this year and reinforces our belief that customers in China are increasingly interested in our low-energy, high- efficiency MABR wastewater treatment solutions.
“It demonstrates that our business model to provide fully designed, Smart Packaged Plants rather than merely the MABR modules alone is well positioned to capitalise on the enormous market opportunity in China, where the total revenue potential for our MABR solutions for the rural market in Henan Province alone is estimated at over US$1 billion.”
According to the agreement, Fluence will provide QSY the system design and the smart packaged C-MABR configuration, manufactured at Fluence’s production facility in Changzhou. QSY will integrate Fluence’s smart packaged C-MABR into the overall wastewater treatment plant and construct the village collection system.
Mr Charrabé said Fluence’s MABR solution was pre-selected as the technology of choice based on its superior ability to consistently meet class 1A effluent standards and its significantly lower energy and maintenance needs, which results in more than 50% lower operating cost compared to conventional extended aeration technologies and MBR.
QSY is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Henan Qingshuiyuan Technology Co. Ltd, specialising in environmental engineering investment and operation.
