Five of the world’s most innovative water technology companies have joined the BlueTech Innovation Pavilion, a new feature of Aquatech Amsterdam 2015, one of the world’s largest water technology events.

BlueTech provides specialised market intelligence for water industry investors and has created the specialist innovation section in partnership with event organizer RAI Amsterdam.

Technology companies Metal Membranes (Netherlands), Arvia Technology (UK), GW Fathom (USA) Magpie Polymers (France) and Akvola Technologies (Germany) will share their expertise with the thousands of delegates expected at Aquatech.

 Chief Executive and Founder of BlueTech Research, Paul O’Callaghan, said:

“We are thrilled to bring together this international group of companies at the BlueTech Innovation Pavilion. Each is doing extraordinary work - four in the field of advanced water treatment and one in data management.

“Their technologies have huge potential in applications across the utility and industrial sectors of the water industry. A visit to the Innovation Pavilion will be a valuable use of visitors’ time.”

The BlueTech Innovation Pavilion participants are as follows:

• Metal Membranes has developed a method of producing ceramic membranes using plasma arc technology to oxidise wafer-thin sheets of aluminium oxide or titanium. The technology has a wide range of uses - from water filtration and diagnostic applications to non-scaling heating elements.
• Arvia Technology has developed a graphite-based electro-chemical method of removing micropollutants from water, which is effective even against hard-to-remove organic compounds like metaldehyde and triclosan.
• Magpie Polymers manufactures an innovative new material, which is highly effective at scavenging precious metals from industrial effluents. The unique polymers can selectively capture and retain platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold from complex industrial process water.
• FATHOM is the name of both the company and its geo-spatial platform that can harvest the value of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) data for utilities of all sizes. FATHOM was developed by a water utility and is currently deployed on 4 million meters in the US.
• Akvola Technologies proprietary technology akvoFloat™ has been designed to deal with hard-to-treat industrial effluents where conventional technologies, such as dissolved air flotation, polymeric membranes and media filters, fail. The technology is especially effective in wastewaters containing high amounts of fats, oils and greases (FOG) or suspended solids. The firm has successfully completed two pilot tests in desalination pretreatment and oily wastewater treatment in the oil & gas industry and is currently looking for pilot sites and partners for larger-scale tests in different applications.

With over half the available space in the Innovation Pavilion now filled, BlueTech Research is seeking four more companies to sign up before the event goes live in November.

Aquatech Amsterdam the world’s leading trade exhibition for process, drinking and wastewater. In 2013, the biennial event attracted 750 exhibitors and more than 18,500 international exhibitors.

For more information, visit http://www.aquatechtrade.com/amsterdamen