Va Tech Wabag to upgrade Chennai sewage treatment plants

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, APRIL 14. The Chennai-based VA Tech WABAG, engaged in the field of industrial water and waste water treatment, has received three orders worth Rs. 28 crores from the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board to improve the latter's sewage treatment plants.

Addressing a press conference here today, Mr. Rajiv Mittal, Managing Director of VA Tech WABAG, said work on the three projects at Koyambedu and Kodungaiyur Zone I and II would be completed within 18 months with a one-year maintenance contract. For this, they planned to set up an operation and maintenance division.

The State Government has also awarded the company the Alandur sewage treatment project. The company had appointed a taskforce to do a feasibility study on desalination project, Mr. Mittal said. He said the VA Tech was also making an entry into the Southeast Asian market. ELIN Entrutech Sdn. Bhd. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, had awarded a contract for supply of a demineralisation plant worth Rs. 3 crores.

The company has already an order from the SPIC-group for supply of a water treatment plant for their fertilizer plant in Dubai and an engineering order for thermal desalination for Pertamina, Indonesia.

The Austrain principals of the firm, VA Technologies (VA Tech), had acquired in April 1999 the water business of the Deutsche Babcock Group, the WABAG group. VA Tech's water systems and the acquired WABAG operations had since been merged to form the VA Tech WABAG group.

In India, the WABAG operations started in October 1996 and its operation were hitherto carried on as a division of Balcke Durr and Wabag Technologies Limited, Chennai. In March this year, the company received the approval of the Madras High Court for demerger of its non-water operations. With this, it is now an exclusive water company and from April this month, has been renamed as VA Tech WABAG limited.

VA Tech WABAG had already opened an office at New Delhi and would shortly be opening a branch at Mumbai, he said.

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