Scottish Water has awarded a contract for the supply and delivery of powder activated carbon with an estimated total value of £7.1 million (ex VAT).
The contract, which first went out to tender in July 2025 and has a duration of 96 months, was concluded on 24 February 2026.
Scottish Water was looking to put a framework agreement in place with a single supplier.
Blantyre-based firm Charles Tennant and Company Ltd have been awarded the contract, one of five firms who tendered for the work. The independent distributor of chemicals based in the UK has a network of strategically located depots offering a nationwide delivery service. The firm is a subsidiary company of Tennants Consolidated Ltd which is a privately owned conglomerate group, headquartered in London and with an annual turnover in excess of £500 million.
Sulzer has launched a new global Center of Excellence (CoE) for Water Treatment Solutions - the CoE consolidates Sulzer’s wastewater treatment expertise in a unified and global manner.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and 
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.
Hear how Scottish Water has completed its £235 million Ayrshire Glasgow Resilience Project - customers across Greater Glasgow, Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire will now benefit from a more secure and resilient water supply.
Hear how United Utilities is accelerating its investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across the Northwest.
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