Environment & Energy | Saturday 13 June, 2015 3:51 am |

A Saudi water-related business mission, headed by Abdulrahman Jazzar of Abdulrahman A.B. Jazzar for Telecom & IT, Jeddah, recently toured Osaka and Tokyo.
In Osaka, the delegation visited Kubota Corporation’s Hirakata Plant (306,084 sqm), which manufactures valves, pumps (vertical and horizontal), steel casting, construction machine. They were briefed about the advanced technology on the effective use of energy. Kubota’s RO pump systems feature high efficiency, easy maintenance and high reliability, based on their technologies.

At Toray Industries’ Shiga Plant, the visitors were given a presentation on its products, RO/UF membrane and MBR (membrane bio-reactor) and its worldwide supply record.
The mission members discussed their products’ technical features and Saudi water quality.
The members next visited Toray Innovation Plaza, where they learned Toray’s various product lines and new products, including carbon textiles, plastics/chemical, films and materials for IT, and pharmaceutical equipment.

At the Toray Research Center (TRC), the visitors witnessed its engineers and experts doing surface, structural, material characterization, organic/inorganic and environmental analysis.
In Tokyo, the mission visited Yokohama’s Nishiya Water Purification Plant and Hokubu Sludge Treatment Center. In Nishiya, the mission members viewed examination of water leakage detection, utilizing conventional and mechanical equipment (demonstrated by Yokohama’s engineers), which were actually implemented out by Yokohama City’s Environmental Planning Bureau.

In Hokubu, the mission members learned the advanced technology of sludge treatment systems, which focused on the effective use of digestion gas for electricity and fuel, incinerated ash (for cement material and improved soil, and fuelization from sludge by a major Japanese municipality.
Saudi companies gave their presentations before participating in B2B meetings. They included Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden), SAWEA, Skado GOCSA, Abdulrahman A.B. Jazzar for Telecom & IT, Global Solution for Leak Free, Saudi Bio-Acids Company, BMS Factories, WETICO, AAHD ALTAWEER Trading & Construction, and Kindasa Water Services.