In a step towards providing customers with safe and healthy drinking water through cutting edge technologies and customised water solutions, Eureka Forbes Ltd signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a strategic partnership with Process Research ORTECH (PRO), Inc. – a privately owned Canadian company that incubates and commercialises innovative technologies for process industries.

“Through this collaboration, the companies will leverage their core competencies and skills to introduce a unique and innovative technology with Automated Variable Filtration (AVF), a high quality water filtration system, to India,” Eureka Forbes said issuing a statement.

This bilateral partnership between Eureka Forbes and PRO is in line with the “Make in India” philosophy in which Eureka Forbes will be setting up the manufacturing and infrastructural facilities in India and PRO will provide the core technological knowhow. In addition to this, Eureka Forbes’ institutional ultrafiltration (UF) system, which was successfully piloted in Canada, will be marketed by PRO for select applications in Canada.

Today, both freshwater availability and water contamination have become a socio-economic hazard in a water-stressed nation like India impacting millions of lives every year.

AVF is a state-of-the-art technology where the cleaning of the media is continuous- achieved by counter current flow of water and filtration media. During the process, the generated clean water itself is used to clean the media in-situ and thus, eliminates the need of product water or fresh water cleaning. In simpler words, this methodology can effectively remove suspended matters and bacterial contamination than other conventional treatment systems. This technology is found to be highly effective in removing micro-organisms like Giardia and Cryptosporidium that so far, required expensive membranes for removal. In addition to removing microbiological contaminants, AVF’s special engineered media also has the ability to remove contaminants like Arsenic, Fluoride, and Sulfates from drinking water.

“The introduction of AVF in Nanded City of Pune has led to successful treating of over 100 million litres of water till date. This occupies a low footprint and functions at a low operating cost compared to conventional membrane-based technologies including energy cost by 30 per cent,” the statement adds.