Tunisia’s Sebri group subsidiary Somevam turned to solutions from wet processing equipment specialist CDE when it wanted to diversify into the glass industry and ensure that its sand offering was unique in the region. Somevam has been operating sand quarries in Oueslatia, Tunisia, serving the country’s construction market since 2001.

With the increased focus in the GCC on conserving water resources and recycling water, the region is seeing an upsurge in the development of numerous waste water and sewage treatment plants (STPs), says the General Director of Paschal Concrete Forms, the regional office of German formwork specialist Paschal-Werk G Maier.

Smart water metering systems supplied by leading building and construction solutions provider Mac Al Gurg were recently selected for a major Federal Electricity and Water Authority (Fewa) project in the UAE.

Muscat’s ground-breaking $3.5-billion The Wave waterfront community has become the first project of its kind in Oman to benefit from innovative digital water solutions developed by world-leading pump specialist Grundfos.

MCI Water Equipment Technologies (MCI Wet), a leading US industrial group, says it has been awarded a contract to deploy 50 containerised seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) systems in the Middle East. These systems have been designed to handle varying feed water quality to different sites, says MCI Wet.