PWN Technologies and Metawater enter strategic alliance

PWN Technologies and Metawater have entered a strategic alliance to seek out and develop global business opportunities for the supply of ceramic membrane systems. The 18-month agreement was signed by Jonathan Clement (CEO PWN Technologies) and Ichiro Fukushima (Executive Director Metawater).

Clement referred to the alliance as a “logical step, indicating our intention to work towards a long-term partnership.” Fukushima, meanwhile, said it offers “opportunities for both companies” and will “speed up the expected breakthrough of ceramic membrane applications on a large, global scale.”

The companies agreed to jointly pursue the ceramic membrane market internationally on a unified, non-competitive strategy basis. PWN Technologies’ primary roles in the alliance will be marketing, business development, client management and the supply and engineering of its CeraMac system. Metawater’s primary roles will be the delivery of membranes for the CeraMac system and the supply of engineering services for Metawater’s membrane.

They will develop a common plan, first determining which system - either CeraMac or Metawater’s ceramic system - is more appropriate for a certain project, including from the standpoint of the specific technical approach, such as piloting.

Both companies will make commercially reasonable efforts to collaborate on conducting pilot testing. It is anticipated that each pilot test will be approached as a common project, which will entail the sharing of resources such as pilot plants, data and operational staff. A joint economic analysis will be done to determine where each company’s system is the most competitive based on flow rate.

In addition, both companies will explore how to expand Metawater’s role in the supply of the CeraMac system above and beyond the supply of membranes. This evaluation will be concluded within the first six months.

PWN Technologies and Metawater have previously collaborated on the construction of the water treatment plant Andijk III (PWN) in the Netherlands and the CeraMac demoplant at the Choa Chu Kang Waterworks (PUB) in Singapore.