01/07/2006 - 3 MORE GWE BIOGAS PLANTS IN THAILAND
GWE signed a contract with US based Corn Products International for the turnkey supply of an anaerobic (ANUBIX-B) plant of gigantic proportions to produce biogas from their tapioca starch, sweatener and modified starch producing factory in the North-East of Thailand, and reuse the biogas in their steam boilers. Two similar turnkey projects were signed with other tapioca starch producers a few weeks before. The total biogas output of those 3 plants amounts up to an astonishing 140,000 m3 per day, equivalent with 26 million liters per year (300 days) of fossile fuel oil! The bulk of this gas is used to replace all fuel oil consumption of the 3 factories. There is a combined surplus of about 26 % of the gas which will be used to produce 4 to 5 Megawatt of green power. Below is a picture of a similar GWE biogas plant in Thailand which has recently been started up.

31/05/2006 - GWE LATEST INNOVATION: MEMBROX®
Together with our USA partner Pure Process Systems, GWE recently finished the development of its MEMBROX® system, a new and “better” Membrane Biological Reactor system. A first full scale Membrox® plant will be built for a Coca Cola Syrup plant in USA. GWE and PPS won the contract against heavy competition from other leading MBR suppliers. Crucial for the success were the perfected technical concepts offered for an attractive price. Good value for money, as always, from GWE. The new system opens many perspectives for GWE’s old and new clients, in particular in view of the increasingly important issue of water recycling.

07/04/2006 - BIG MEDIA ATTENTION IN LAOS
The GWE anaerobic WWTP at Lao Brewery in Vientiane, Laos is the first of its kind in that country. The plant was recently started up in a record time (3 weeks to full capacity) with impressive results (95 percent COD and BOD removal in the UASB reactor). This event was widely covered by the national TV and in all major newspapers.

04/04/2006 - ORDER FOR BIO-ETHANOL PROJECT
P.T. Medco, a stock listed oil and gas company in Indonesia, has chosen GWE for the design ans supply of their anaerobic/aerobic WWTP with reuse of biogas in the steam boiler and in electrical power generators.

02/03/2006 - FIFTH GWE PLANT IN USA IS FOR MILLER
GWE, through its USA partner, has won the contract to design and build an anaerobic waste water treatment plant for the Miller brewery in Irwindale, California. This project includes the reuse of the biogas as fuel in electrical power generators to produce and sell green power.

10/10/2005 - NEW OFFICE IN BANGKOK
GWE Thailand moved into its new office in the Empire Tower in Bangkok, located in the heart of the business district (Sathorn Road). The contact details can be found on the contact-page of this website.

01/08/2005 - PRESTIGEOUS GWE ORDER IN CHINA - NO. 46
Through our partners in Hong Kong GWE has received an order for the design and supply of an anaerobic treatment plant for the leachate of a garbage landfill in Shanghai, China. For GWE it is the 4th landfill leachate project (1 other in China - see picture below, 2 in Taiwan), and the 46th project in China, confirming GWE as the market leader for anaerobic WWTPs in China.

01/06/2005 - GWE PLANT IN TANZANIA
SAB-Miller has ordered an anaerobic waste water treatment plant (UASB reactor) through our South-African partners for their brewery in Tanzania. This is already the 5th plant GWE supplies to SAB-Miller in Africa, and the 6th overall.

11/03/2005 - GLOBAL UASB PLANT FOR SUNKIST
Another well-known brand name (who does not remember the piramid shaped juice packs?) has entrusted GWE and its USA partner to design and build an anaerobic (UASB) waste water treatment plant.

08/11/2004 - UAC REACTOR FOR TUNA CANNING FACTORY
GWE has sold an anaerobic (UAC) + aerobic WWTP for TON DES MASCAREIGNES, a new tuna canning factory in Mauritius. This is already our third project in Mauritius, and our fifth for tuna canning. Previous GWE tuna canning plants were built in Thailand (2) and in The Philippines (2). Below is a picture of the Thai Union WWTP in Thailand.

08/11/2004 - 2 NEW COUNTRIES ON THE MAP
GWE received confirmation of new orders for Lao Brewery in Vientiane, capital of Laos, and for Anlima, a textile dying factory in Bangladesh. The Lao Brewery project consists of a capacity increase and a conversion to anaerobic (UASB) + aerobic of the existing activated sludge plant, as part of an expansion project of the brewery. The Anlima project is a new application for UASB, which was preceded by bench scale feasability tests.

30/07/2004 - 5th GWE UASB IN RUSSIA
Through its German partner GWE sold its 5th anaerobic (UASB) WWTP in Russia. The client is STEIREROBST, a producer of fruit concentrates. The previous 4 GWE plants in Russia were for Klin Brewery (Interbrew), Baltika Samara and Baltika Chabarowsk, and Kaluga Brewery (SAB-Miller). The Kaluga plant is still under construction, while the 3 others are already operational.

22/07/2004 - NEW MILESTONE IN HISTORY OF GWE
GWE signed a contract for engineering and supply of its largest ever brewery plant, capacity 17,000 m³/day effluent and 82,500 kg COD/day, larger then any brewery project GWE has ever quoted for anywhere in the world. The client is Beer Chang (Thailand), which recently came in the world news through a 3 year shirt sponsorship deal with Premier League football club Everton F.C.

01/07/2004 - 4 MORE ORDERS FOR COCA-COLA + 1 SOFTDRINKS PLANT
Two different Coca-Cola bottlers in China ordered in total 4 anaerobic (UASB) waste water treatment plants to GWE through our local partners for China. This brings the total of GWE plants for Coca-Cola to 27! Almost simultaneously an order was received from a local softdrinks factory, Kian Joo Can, in Malaysia.

15/05/2004 - SAB-MILLER ENTRUSTS GWE WITH 2 MORE PLANTS
Only a few weeks apart GWE received 2 orders for plants in the SAB-Miller Group. The first one, sold through our South-African partner, is for SAB Alrode in RSA. The second one, for Kaluga Brewery, is located in Russia, about 250 km north of Moscow, and was sold through our German partner. This success is a result of the excellent performance of 3 already operating GWE plant for SAB in South-Africa. Below is a picture of a recently built WWTP in Cape Town, South-Africa.

15/01/2004 - ANAEROBIC SLUDGE DIGESTOR FOR COLUMBIA
Through its Brasilian partner GWE sold an anaerobic (CSR) digestor for a mixture of primary (DAF) and excess aerobic (activated) sludge. The client is a dairy factory called PRODUCTOS LACTEOS.

01/12/2003 - NEW EUROPEAN OFFICE OPENED
The new offices of our newly incorporated Belgian daughter company GLOBAL WATER ENGINEERING N.V. are now open and fully operational. The coordinates of the new office are mentioned on the "Contact" section of this website. GWE N.V. is meant to be the European base of our Group. Initially, our shipping and equipment expediting services are located there, as well as Mr. Karel Putteman, our EVP Operations, and Uli Ombregt, our VP Finance. In the coming months the staff will be selectively expanded to include marketing and sales support for Europe, as well as some process and engineering support staff. With this we aim to provide a contact point for our European customers closer to home and in their own time zone. Please feel welcome to pay us a visit should the opportunity arise.

01/12/2003 - NEW EUROPEAN PARTNER
GWE signed an exclusive collaboration and marketing agreement for its anaerobic waste water treatment technologies with MP Medioambiente s.l. headquartered in Sevilla, Spain. This agreement covers Spain, Portugal and Morocco. MP Medioambiente is a company active solely in industrial wastewater treatment with a very strong market presence (about 400 plants). This is part of our strategy to cover the European market through partnerships with a number of strong companies dominant in their local markets.

05/11/2003 - ODWALLA WWTP OPENED
On 4/11/2003 the WWTP of Odwalla Inc., a health drinks factory in California, was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony. This was the opening of the first GWE-plant in the U.S.A. and another milestone in the history of GWE.

22/07/2003 - 23 PLANTS FOR COCA-COLA
GWE recently received an order for the wastewater treatment system (anaerobic/aerobic) for another Coca-Cola bottling plant, in Xian, P.R. China. The plant marks the 23rd GWE wastewater treatment plant for Coca-Cola bottling wastewater, and will go on stream early in 2004. Below is a picture of a Coca-Cola WWTP-plant which was started up recently in Changsha, P.R. China.

22/07/2003 - AFRICA ON THE MAP
As last continent Africa now also has GWE plants on its mainland. After 2 plants were already sold on the resort island of Mauritius last year (for Mauritius Breweries and a local Coca-Cola bottler), South African Breweries bought a first plant also last year for its Ibhayi brewery, and, following the succesfull commissioning of that plant, signed for 2 more, to be installed in its Rosslyn and Newlands breweries.

22/07/2003 - SECOND ORDER IN USA
GWE just sold its second U.S. plant, for Fieldbrook Foods, an ice cream producer near New York. This comes a few weeks after our first U.S. order, for Odwalla, a health drinks factory in California.

01/07/2003 - NEW WEBSITE GWE
On July 1 2003 the new website of GWE was launched.