United Envirotech to expand wastewater treatment plant in China

Environmental solutions provider United Envirotech has secured a contract to acquire, upgrade and expand a wastewater treatment plant In Liaoning Province, China.

The company has signed an RMB286m ($46.7m) 30-year agreement with the municipal government of Hong Wei District, Liaoyang City to acquire the existing 15,000m³/day plant and upgrade it with its membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology. It will add an additional 45,000m³/day of treatment capacity to cater to a future increase in demand.

Once completed, the plant will treat 30,000m³/day of municipal wastewater and 30,000m³/day of industrial wastewater.

The upgrading work will commence immediately and is anticipated to be completed by September 2014. The expansion work is expected to commence in early 2014 and will take 12 months to complete.

United Envirotech chairman and CEO Lin Yucheng said: "Fast industrialisation and urbanisation, the commitment by the Chinese government to clean up the environment and the strong enforcement of more stringent discharge standards all provide strong impetus for the growing demand of water treatment solution."

The company has been providing operation and maintenance services to the wastewater treatment plant in Hong Wei since 2010.