Members in the News

Water &Wastes Digest (W&WD) is accepting nominations for the Young Professionals Recognition of 2018. This program is designed to highlight the next generation of leaders, innovators, and hard workers in the water and wastewater industry. Responses to a survey of the selected professionals will be used to develop a feature in the May issue of W&WD. [...]

Aqua Metrology Systems has joined WWEMA as a Full Member. Aqua Metrology is based in Sunnyvale, CA, and is a leader in online analytical instrumentation for the determination of water contaminants, specifically disinfection by-products (THMs) and trace metals (arsenic, chromium-6, selenium), across municipal and industrial markets. The WWEMA Official Delegate is CEO Rick Bacon, who attended [...]

Vapex Environmental Technologies has joined WWEMA as a Full Member. Vapex, headquartered in Cocoa, FL, provides sales and service of odor control systems made for wastewater treatment facilities. The official delegate is President Robert Jeyaseelan, who attended the WWEMA Annual Meeting in November in Scottsdale. Robert may be reached at robertj@vapex.com. For more information, go to [...]

WWEMA Member Water Remediation Technology (WRT) has announced the acquisition of Loprest Water Treatment Company. Based in Northern California, Loprest specializes in water filtration and treatment processes for the removal of iron and manganese, arsenic, nitrate, and other contaminants. Mike Dimitriou, President of WRT, has confirmed that Loprest will operate as a division of WRT, with [...]

Sulzer has announced they have completed the acquisition of WWEMA Member JWC Environmental, LLC. JWC is a leading provider of highly engineered, mission critical solids reduction and removal products such as grinders, screens, and dissolved air floatation system for municipal, industrial, and commercial wastewater applications. The transaction allows Sulzer to grow its wastewater treatment offering as [...]

Pelton Environmental Products, Inc. has joined WWEMA as an Associate Member. Pelton is a manufacturer rep company of water and wastewater equipment currently providing equipment and service from over 35 principals to customers in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. The official WWEMA delegate is John Pelton who can reached at jpelton@peltonenv.com. For more information, go to http://www.peltonenv.com/.

WWEMA member Xylem Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all the issued and outstanding shares of Pure Technologies Ltd. representing an enterprise value of CAD$509 million, or USD$397 million. Pure’s Board of Directors has unanimously approved the transaction and recommends that Pure shareholders vote in favor of the transaction. Pure provides unique diagnostic [...]

Active Water Solutions has joined WWEMA as a Full Member. Active Water Solutions is a wastewater treatment manu-facturer that specializes in water reuse application, and provides packaged and transportable wastewater treatment plants. The WWEMA official delegate is Terry Lee Wilson who can be reached at t.wilson@activewatersolutions.com. For more information, go to www.activewatersolutions.com.

MichBusiness honored Duperon Corporation with its Succession Success award on November 30 at the 4th Annual Best of MichBusiness Awards and Gala in Detroit. Duperon Corporation, innovator of liquids/solids separation systems for the preliminary treatment and management of water and water resources, was hon-ored for successfully transitioning family business leadership from one generation to the next. [...]

Jim Myers & Sons is moving to a 72,000-square-foot facility effective May 15, 2015. The largest expansion in the company’s 50-year history, the move represents a significant increase in available plant and office space, with administrative and non-manufacturing areas more than doubling, and manufacturing footage netting a nearly 66 percent increase. “This is an exciting time for [...]