Evoqua Water Technologies expects to see “a significant percentage of [its] new orders coming from Korean yards" on the back of a recovery in the newbuilding market starting next year, its business manager for its ballast water business, Matt Granitto, told BWTT.
He made his comments from the Kormarine 2017 exhibition in Busan, South Korea, this week where the company had been sharing a stand with its South Korean partner, Krosys, with which it has had a manufacturing and distribution agreement agreement since October 2015.
That agreement with the water treatment specialist gave Krosys access to components to make Evoqua’s SeaCure BWMS in South Korea and their Kormarine stand featured a Krosys-built skid-mounted electrochlorination unit (ECU). This “showcases the Korean engineering company’s competence in building, installing and commissioning Evoqua’s high-end ballast water treatment technology in the Korean newbuild and retrofit markets,” the two companies said in a statement.
Earlier this year Krosys had secured orders for SeaCure systems of 3,000 m3/h capacity to be supplied for two 115,000 dwt crude oil tanker newbuildings for Singaporean interests and the statement quoted Krosys team manager of its BWMS Business Team JaeWook Bae saying that this latest development “means the world’s best shipyards now have local access to the world’s best ballast water treatment technology.”
Evoqua Water Technologies global vice president for electrocatalytic systems Ian Stentiford said that its 2015 agreement “has quickly borne fruit with expert service and short response times for our customers in South Korea.”
Mr Granitto also paid tribute to Krosys’ achievements, saying that it had quickly established the SeaCure system in the Korean market. “It’s of vital importance to Evoqua that our operations run efficiently and effectively across the globe and establishing a strategic network of partners is central to this,” he said.
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