Eureka Forbes, process research ortech tie up to launch AVF technology

In a step towards providing customers with safe and healthy drinking water through cutting edge technologies and customised water solutions, Eureka Forbes has signed an MoU towards forming a strategic partnership with Process Research ORTECH (PRO), Inc. – a Canadian company that incubates and commercialises innovative technologies for process industries. Through this collaboration, the companies will leverage their core competencies to introduce an innovative technology with Automated
Variable Filtration (AVF), a high quality water filtration system, to India.
This bilateral partnership between Eureka Forbes and PRO is in line with the Make in India philosophy in which Eureka Forbes will be setting up manufacturing and infrastructural facilities in India and PRO will provide the core technological knowhow. In addition to this, Eureka Forbes’ institutional ultrafiltration (UF) system, which was successfully piloted in Canada, will
be marketed by PRO for select applications in Canada. Today, both freshwater availability and water contamination have become a socioeconomic hazard in a water-stressed nation like India impacting millions of lives every year. The introduction of AVF in Nanded City of Pune has led to successful treating of over 100 million litres of water till date. This occupies a low
footprint and functions at a low operating cost compared to conventional membrane-based technologies including energy cost by 30%. AVF is a state-of-the-art technology where the cleaning of the media is continuous-achieved by counter current flow of water and filtration media. Use of this technology can save over Rs 1 billion of microbial membrane cost which is currently being imported.