Grundfos
Exhibitor

https://www.grundfos.com/ae

Grundfos is the world’s largest pump manufacturer and a global trendsetter in water solutions. It sets the standard for innovation, efficiency, reliability and sustainability by pioneering water solutions that improve quality of life for people and care for the planet. With over 19,000 employees in 56 countries, Grundfos provides energy efficient pumping solutions for various applications across diverse segments including domestic, commercial buildings, industries, water utilities (water & wastewater management) and pumps running on renewable energy.

The company is aligned with UAE’s 2030 vision of 30% water and energy consumption reduction, whilst strongly advocating and engaging in UNs Sustainable Development Goals 6 & 13. Grundfos’s Energy Check programme provides building owners and facility managers a better understanding on their existing pumps efficiency level and empowering them to achieve up to 60% savings through innovative water solutions.

Eshara Water
Associate Sponsors

https://esharawater.com/

Eshara Water is a UAE-based, technology-led company. Eshara Water design and manufacture atmospheric water generators (AWG) capable of creating high-quality drinking water from the air. We have been established within the UAE since 2017 in Kizad Abu Dhabi, the premise of our approach is to design and manufacture technology leading AWG machines that enables all segments of the market and individual consumers to affordably access this technology. By doing this we can make a sustainable difference to the UAE, the wider region and the planet as a whole. We hope by providing this technology we can protect natural water resources and contribute to removing single use plastic on a scale that makes a difference. As well as make a material difference to reducing the regions carbon footprint.

Our seven key objectives for improving water availability and impacting the wider sustainability agenda are:

• Remove the need for single-use plastic water bottles and eliminate large scale water transportation therefore reducing carbon footprint.
• Creating affordable air to water technology that is six times cheaper than bottled water.
• Protect natural water resources by providing a credible alternative and to help reduce the reliance on de-salination, which impacts the natural eco system.
• Provide certified drinking water to the highest international and local standards.
• Providing clean drinking water at the point of use with plug and play technolgy.
• Our technology is modular and scalable so we can meet the needs of the many not the few.
• Provide assurance to our customer on water safety – our machines are the most certified available and we ensure the water consumed is as safe as it can be.

Amiantit
Associate Sponsors

https://www.amiantit.com/en/

Amiantit was incorporated in Dammam, Saudi Arabia in 1968 to manufacture pipes for the local market. Since then, Amiantit has excelled to be the leading industrial group in its domain providing diversified pipe and water solutions across the globe.

From a diminutive pipe factory in Dammam almost 5 decades ago, Amiantit has expanded its business to incorporate a wide range of well-integrated products and services including pipe-design technology, pipe-manufacturing, engineering services, water treatment management, and pipe network installation.

With 29 manufacturing plants worldwide, various technology companies, material supply, and engineering subsidiaries in Europe, Asia, and the GCC, Amiantit manifested its strength and positioned itself as the global leader in pipe technology with an impressive presence spanning across the 6 continents.

The group is currently providing the widest range of pipe systems. Amiantit takes pride in its pipe systems that provide exceptionally viable and reliable solutions for the transfer of various kinds of fluids; through pipe systems that are designed to optimize the efficiency of fluid transmission.

hawle
Associate Sponsors

https://www.hawle.com/en/

The Hawle Austria Group produces and distributes valves and fittings for water distribution all over the world. These products have been manufactured for generations and are used in urban water management from the source right through to the connection in the house.

The Hawle Austria Project Group is your solution-oriented Partner for Water Projects like Water Transmission, Water Distribution, Hydro Dam or TSE Water Project from a planning Stage till Installation of Goods!

The pioneer Engelbert Hawle founded the company in Vöcklabruck, Austria, in 1948. His idea was to create a revolutionary pipe connection for drinking water pipelines. His workshop was modest but he made up for that with plenty of ideas and passion, always aiming to achieve customer-oriented solutions. With pioneering spirit and the ambition to keep developing his products further, Hawle reached ever greater milestones over the decades. Today, Hawle is the leading company for quality in heavy-duty valves.

The Group is now a global player and has remained in family control since the beginning. Hawle always keeps the future in mind and has an international vision, striving to develop the company in a sustainable and positive way.

The Hawle Austria Group currently has 1200 employees across the globe.

QNET
Strategic Partners

https://www.qnet.net/

QNET is a global e-commerce based direct selling company that provides customers around the world with unique high-quality products and services, while giving them the opportunity to build a sales business by promoting these products.

A truly global business, QNET’s strength lies in our diversity. We may be Asian by heritage, but our distributors are spread across the Middle East, South and East Asia, Africa, Central Asia, and Europe. The company’s global footprint has helped develop micro-entrepreneurs in many emerging economies.

Saur
Gold Sponsor

https://www.saur.com/

As a water services provider, Saur supports local authorities and private actors in their water-related projects (engineering, works, operation) and their ecological transition.

Well aware of the global environmental stakes and convinced by the need to move forward towards resilient development models, Saur puts its know-how and values ​​at the service of a commitment embedded in its DNA to : stand for water.

#StandForWater means ensuring that water is of high quality, safe and in sufficient quantity, everywhere and for all, in the short and long term. In this perspective, Saur capitalizes on its positioning as a pure player in water to become the reference for managing this asset and its uses at a time of environmental emergency.

Through mastery of the municipal and industrial water cycle and its ability to provide solutions adapted to the needs of each territory, Saur is now leveraging an always deeper and collectively shared knowledge of water as a crucial resource to guarantee the sustainability of water services worldwide.

This ambition is a logical path for a Group which has always been embedded deep inside loca territories and whose core business is to always combine economic performance with positive local impact, both socially and environmentally.

Saur is over 11,000 employees strong, 12.5 million consumers worldwide, 20,000 installations monitored in real time and € 1.5 billion in net turnover.

Saur is present in France, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Qatar, Colombia, United Kingdom, Cyprus and operates all over the world.

Wilo
Strategic Partners

https://wilo.com/ae/en/

The Wilo Group is one of the world’s leading premium providers of pumps and pump systems for the building services, water management and industrial sectors. In the past decade, we have developed from a hidden champion into a visible and connected champion. Today, Wilo has around 8,000 employees worldwide.

Our innovative solutions, smart products and individual services move water in an intelligent, efficient and climate-friendly manner. We are also making an important contribution to climate protection with our sustainability strategy and in conjunction with our partners. We are systematically pressing ahead with the digital transformation of the Group. We are already the digital pioneer in the industry with our products and solutions, processes and business models.

ANDRITZ
Exhibitor

https://www.andritz.com/group-en

International technology group ANDRITZ offers a broad portfolio of innovative plants, equipment, systems and services for industries like solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial sectors, as well as pumping solutions. The global product and service portfolio is rounded off with automation and digital solutions offered under the brand name of Metris. 

With over 175 years of experience and an installed fleet of more than 430 GW output, the ANDRITZ Hydro provides complete solutions for hydropower plants of all sizes as well as services for plant diagnosis, refurbishment, and modernization. Pumps for irrigation, water supply and flood control as well as turbo generators are also part of this business area’s portfolio.

ANDRITZ Separation provides mechanical and thermal technologies and services for solid/liquid separation. The customized, innovative solutions focus on minimizing the use of resources and achieving highest process efficiency, thus making a substantial contribution towards sustainable environmental protection.

Plastek
Exhibitor

https://www.plasteksrl.it/

The company carries out design, construction and sale of HDPE pipes and special pieces of polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) and printed formats up to 2300 mm diameter.

The production of special and customized pieces, especially of big size diameters, it ranks as one of the leading Italian and foreign manufacturers.

Equally to the provision and realization of products, we can intervene with skilled personnel and certified on site, equipped with suitable equipment for the realization of welds for diameters from Ø 32 to Ø 2300.

Over the years we have integrated our specializations diversifying productions with custom designs (as you can see from the photos in the slideshow) used in installations for desalination plants, hydroelectric power stations, industrial plants etc …

More and more we are asked the most fitting of steel, part plastic (PE, PP-H, PVC-C, PVDF etc ..), apparatus execution of pneumatic and electrical instrumentation consists in Italy and assembled in any part of the world; these activities we manage with our professional staff and all within our Italian Company.

Desalcott
Gold Sponsor

http://desalcott.com/

The Desalination Company of Trinidad and Tobago

The Desalination Company of Trinidad and Tobago (DESALCOTT) is a single purpose entity originally formed in 1999 to sell desalinated sea water to the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) on a build own operate basis.  Desalcott has the total responsibility to design, build, finance and operate the US$200,000,000.00 desalination plant. 

Desalcott was a joint venture enterprise between Trinidadian company Hafeez Karamath Engineering Services Limited (HKESL) with a 60% shareholding and General Electric (who acquired the shareholding of the other original investor, Ionics Inc. in 2005) a USA based company with a 40% shareholding. In November 2012, HKESL purchased General Electric’s entire shareholding making DesalCoTT 100% locally owned and operated.

In November 2012 Desalcott was contracted by WASA to increase its production from 24 million imperial gallons of water per day (MIGD) to 40 MIGD.

Everbright Water
Exhibitor

https://ebwater.com/en/global/home.php

Successful protection of the environment requires the highest standards of both conventional and advanced technologies for water, wastewater, sludge and off- gas treatment combined with experience in plant operation. Thus, results from day- to day plant operation can flow back to the plant designers and Engineers.

E+B Environmental Technology GmbH has been established as environmental engineering firm providing “turn key” solutions to its customers, combining the know- how of its shareholder Everbright Water from operation of more than 100 treatment plants and the experience of more than 30 years in the business of its senior engineers.

The company’s philosophy is, to provide reliable and energy saving technologies to its customers, integrating most recent technical applications, developed and tested in its own research and development facilities.

A slim organisation, adapted to the requirements of the market combined with international sourcing capabilities of mechanical and electrical equipment are ensuring to provide not only the best technologies but also very competitive prices to its clients around the world.

Utico
Lead Sponsor

https://www.uticome.com/

Utico is the Middle East’s largest major full service private utility and the only one of its kind in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Headquartered in Ras Al Khaimah, in the north of the UAE, Utico is part of the US$2.8 billion business conglomerate, RMB Group, based in Abu Dhabi, the Federal capital of the UAE. Utico’s business spans water supply, desalination, waste water treatment solutions, power generation and transmission as well as solar. It has an across the spectrum presence in the utility space from project conception, execution and commissioning to billing. Investors in Utico include sovereign government entities from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Sultanate of Oman and Brunei. Sustainability is a core focus for Utico. As a green company, it also has significant community involvement in supporting local farmers with free to subsidised water supply in its endeavour to support the cause of food self-sufficiency in the UAE. Utico is the first company to get ISO 50001 in the Middle East for energy management by Quality Austria. Utico is also an infrastructure developer   and EPC contractor. The company is certified ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001:2007.

Hesham has a rich experience in capital market transaction. He started his career in the Capital Market Authority where he worked in various capital market transaction such various SABIC Sukuk issuances and various IPO deals in different sectors. Then, He joined GIB capital as investment banker and successfully closed a couple of deals like AlAhli Bank IPO (So far, this biggest IPO in the history of the kingdom) and the acquisition of General Lighting Company by Philips. After that, He joined Samba Capital Investment Banking team where he successfully closed IPO deal in the health sector. He currently works in the National Center of Privatization & PPPs where he became an integral part of its operation with focus on the water sector and successfully closed several Green field projects in the water production and sewage treatment

Rafael Pérez-Feito is currently International Operations Director in Aqualia, a global water company serving more than 23 million people in 21 countries. With more than 15 years of experience in the water and sanitation sector, he joined Aqualia in 2005 as Corporate Development Director for Europe at a time in which the company was able to expand its operations to the Czech Republic, Poland, Italy and Portugal becoming one of the global market leaders. Since then, he has hold other executive positions like Central and Eastern Europe Director and Europe Area Manager and has been a Member of different Boards of Directors and Supervisory Boards in several international water companies.
Prior to Aqualia, he worked in the Research and Consulting fields for different private and public companies in Spain and the United States, participating in several projects in Latin America and Spain.
Additionally, he is a Member of the Advisory Board at the IESE-United Nations Public-Private Partnerships International Specialist Centre “PPP for Cities”, Member of the UNECE Team of Experts on Public-Private Partnerships and Lecturer at the “International Master in Public Companies and Policy” (École des Ponts ParisTech, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo and Spanish Civil Engineers Association).
Rafael holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Agricultural Engineering from Madrid Polytechnic University, a MSc in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and a MBA from IESE Business School.