Sembcorp Holds Groundbreaking of Water Technology Hub in China​

Sembcorp Industries held the groundbreaking ceremony of its Nanjing International Water Hub (NIWH) in Nanjing city’s new central business district of Jianye in Jiangsu province, China on Wednesday

Covering 34,183 sqm on the Sino-Singapore Nanjing Eco Hitech Island, the water hub is designed to host research facilities, business and conference space to facilitate the development and commercialisation of new water technologies. Sembcorp says the water hub aims to be the leading centre in Nanjing for science and water technology exchanges. The hub is slated to be completed in 2018.

Sembcorp says a unique feature of the water hub is the Water Technology Innovation Centre. This will provide facilities to support performance tests on emerging water technologies in clinical settings and in the field. Sembcorp says it will grant third-party water technology developers access to its water facilities across China to test-bed their technologies, which supports the commercialisation of R&D projects from the pilot-testing stage to market-ready levels.

In conjunction with the groundbreaking, NIWH signed three memoranda of understanding. The first two MOUs were signed with Singapore’s Public Utilities Board and National University of Singapore’s Centre for Water Research respectively to explore a series of collaboration programmes to help local SMEs bring new technologies and water treatment solutions into the Chinese and international markets. The third MOU was signed with Sembcorp unit Sembcorp (China) Holding to explore developing the Sembcorp Global Asset Management System (GAMS) for Water at the NIWH. The GAMS system will be equipped with capabilities using advanced data analytics for process optimisation, troubleshooting and predictive maintenance, Semcorp says.

At 3.29pm, Sembcorp was up 0.6% at $3.23, with some 3.8 million shares traded.

Source: The Edge Markets

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