Calgon Carbon to supply granular activated carbon to Seoul water plant in South Korea

Samsung C&T, the parent company of the Samsung Group, has awarded a contract to US-based Calgon Carbon to supply granular activated carbon (GAC) for a plant that supplies potable water in Seoul City, South Korea.

Under the deal, Calgon Carbon will supply 7.2 million pounds of its Filtrasorb GAC to the Dduk-Do Municipal Drinking Water (Dduk-Do) Plant, which processes 198 million gallons of drinking water daily.

Water supply from the facility reaches out to one million residents across seven districts in the Seoul metropolitan area.

The GAC will be used in the recently constructed carbon filters at the facility in order to eliminate taste and odour from the water source.

Calgon Carbon is expected to deliver the GAC by the second quarter of 2015, starting from December 2014.

Calgon Carbon chairman and CEO Randy Dearth said: "For more than 50 years, Filtrasorb carbons have set the standard for drinking water treatment worldwide, and they continue to be the cornerstone of our municipal water treatment and custom municipal reactivation business.

"Calgon Carbon has been supplying GAC to drinking water treatment plants in South Korea since 2000, and in June we completed delivery of more than five million pounds of GAC to the Gu Eui plant under a contract awarded to us in February.

"We are very pleased that the superiority of our Filtrasorb products continues to gain recognition in South Korea and is leading the growth of our business in that region."

The financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.