1 December 2015
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announced today that the company received an order
to supply its
hollow fiber ultrafiltration (UF) membrane module
TORAYFIL® to what is going to be
Southeast Asia’s largest membrane water filtration facility
in Bangkok, Kingdom of Thailand.
In Southeast Asia, Toray has been supplying
* reverse osmosis membranes to water treatment facilities
for seawater desalination as well as
* waste water and sewage reuse, etc.,
which have been a top priority for Singapore as a nation.
Being awarded the order for
this major water purification facility project in Thailand
is an opportunity for the company
to respond to the needs for improving
the quality of tap water for domestic use in Southeast Asia.
In this project, Toray will supply TORAYFIL® UF membranes
for installation in the water purification plant in 2016,
which is expected to start operation in 2017.
The facility in Bangkok that will utilize TORAYFIL®
will have a processing capacity of 110,000 m3 of water a day
and will be the pioneer
large-scale membrane-based water purification plant
in the country.
The facility will be built and operated by
that has
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and
CH. Karnchang Public Co., Ltd.
as major shareholders.
It treats water from Tachin River
which is a tributary river of Chao Phraya River,
using TORAYFIL® and supplies high-quality tap water
to Bangkok citizens, who have been struggling
with water quality problems.
In Thailand, a number of large-scale,
membrane-based water purification projects
are expected to be introduced
for drinking water in the near future.
As a result of in the improvement in living standards in the country,
there has been an increase in the demand
for high-quality tap water.
This demand for higher quality potable water
is best achieved by membrane-based purification methods,
which are easy to operate and can purify water more safely
and securely compared with
the existing rapid filtration method using sand.
Moreover, the application of water purification membrane treatment
in the above project is expected to lead to
expanded utilization of similar membrane based projects
by neighboring countries in Southeast Asia.
The project has Goshu Kosan Co., Ltd. of Thailand
in charge of the process design and system development
to create a facility that would maximize
the performance of TORAYFIL® UF membrane modules.
In its Green Innovation Business Expansion (GR) Project
under the medium-term management program
Project AP-G 2016, Toray is aiming to expand businesses
that contribute to solving environmental, resource
and energy issues.
The expansion of the water treatment business
is very much the core of the GR Project.
Toray, as a comprehensive membrane manufacturer,
will continue to strongly promote business activities
that would contribute to solving the issues
related to water resources by offering
* TORAYFIL® UF membranes, such as the ones in Thailand,
as well as steadily winning orders for
* ROMEMBRA® RO membranes, which have
the major share of the market, and with
* MEMBRAY® membrane separation bioreactors (MBR)
for sewage and wastewater applications.
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