Wanhua Chemical teams up with French partner on seawater desalination project

Wanhua Chemical's Penglai Industrial Park will be the seventh industrial park of Wanhua Chemical globally. It is committed to building itself into a chemical industrial base that integrates fine chemical, petrochemical and high-end new energy materials. Moreover, it incorporates the concepts of green chemistry and environmental protection into project and daily operation.

As an important supporting project of Penglai Industrial Park, the Penglai seawater desalination project planned a land area of 56,000 square meters and a construction area of 23,000 sq m. It contains six process areas: water intake, coagulation and sedimentation, filtration, sludge treatment, water product and power distribution. Once completed, the first phase will be able to produce 100,000 metric tons of desalinated water per day.

Shanghai Civil Engineering of CREC, Wanhua Chemical and France's Suez Environment are the three parties in the project. The project will build upon the long-term partnerships between all three parties, save scarce freshwater resources and enhance local water ecosystems. This will help Wanhua advance its development toward an eco-friendly model.

Suez, as one of the world's leading water and environmental service companies, will provide Wanhua with technical services such as procedure design, equipment and installation services.

The company said that this project is the largest industrial seawater desalination project undertaken by it so far. Together with Shanghai Civil Engineering of CREC's strong construction capabilities, the Penglai Industrial Park is to have an overall planned seawater desalination capacity of 300,000 tons per day in the future.

Liao Zengtai, chairman of Wanhua Chemical expressed his delight at the signing ceremony. He said: "I am very pleased to see that our past cooperation with Suez has become a huge success. Suez is an outstanding company and their professional technics and excellent customer services have made great contributions to the success and development of many of Wanhua's projects. I hope this can become another landmark project."