GE (NYSE:GE) today announced that it has agreed to acquire Monsal,
a private U.K.-based water, waste, advanced anaerobic digestion and
integrated biogas-to-energy business.
With Monsal’s advanced anaerobic digestion technology and industry
knowledge, GE will be able to help municipalities and industrial
manufacturers shift from disposing wastewater treatment byproducts to
generating renewable energy and other value from their streams. The
acquisition of Monsal will enhance GE’s wastewater treatment product
offerings and further GE’s commitment to energy reduction in wastewater
treatment. GE will use its global reach, as well as commercial and
execution capability, to take Monsal’s technology, integrate it with its
own and proliferate it across the world.
“For many years, GE has been working to further the development of water
reuse, wastewater and tough-to-treat water technologies. The acquisition
of Monsal, with its advanced anaerobic digestion technology, will enable
us to provide our customers with more energy-efficient options for water
treatment solutions. Now our wastewater treatment solutions can be
combined with new, advanced anaerobic digestion technologies to convert
biosolids to renewable sources of energy for our customers,” said Heiner
Markhoff, president and CEO—water and process technologies for GE Power
& Water.
“GE’s global expertise and reach in the municipal and industrial water
treatment industry is world class and is very complementary to Monsal’s
advanced digestion capabilities and our overall strategy for
international expansion. Joining the GE family will allow Monsal to
bring our technologies to a significantly broader audience as well as
give us R&D capabilities at a much larger scale than we have now. We
expect to expand our product and technology range with the GE resource,
so that we become the ‘go-to’ company globally for anaerobic digestion,”
said Aidan Cumiskey, managing director, Monsal.
Monsal, based in Mansfield, U.K., provides advanced technology to treat
biosolids and biowaste and convert it into renewable energy and saleable
byproducts. Anaerobic digestion is a biological process in which
microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of
oxygen. One of the end products is biogas, which can be combusted to
generate electricity and heat—a feature that GE Power & Water’s
Distributed Power business can achieve with Jenbacher gas engines.
Monsal is one of the U.K.’s leading advanced anaerobic digestion and
integrated biogas-to-energy businesses with over 200 installed anaerobic
digestion systems. Monsal has particular expertise in optimizing
anaerobic digestion assets to create strategic renewable energy centers
for the water and waste markets.
GE Power & Water’s water
and process technologies business is a leading global supplier of
water treatment, wastewater treatment, water reuse and process systems
solutions along with water treatment chemicals and process
chemicals. The company provides proven technologies and solutions for
water treatment and reuse and continues to invest heavily to enhance
current products and to develop new, even more advanced technologies. GE
supplies products and services that are used to optimize total
water/process system performance, safeguard customer assets from
corrosion, fouling and scaling and protect the environment through water
and energy conservation. GE also offers a diverse selection of
technologies for the global water treatment industry ranging from
desalination to cooling water solutions, mobile water to petrochemical
solutions and water recovery to boiler water solutions.
About Monsal
Today, Monsal is the advanced digestion (AD) technology supplier of
choice for major AD infrastructure projects in the U.K. water and waste
markets. Monsal offers a complete technology package to leading
utilities, waste management companies and energy developers. Monsal is a
privately owned and private equity backed business. For more
information, visit the company’s website at www.monsal.com.
About GE
GE (NYSE:GE) works on things that matter. The best people and the best
technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in
energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering,
moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. For
more information, visit the company's website at www.ge.com.
About GE Power & Water
GE Power & Water provides customers with a broad array of power
generation, energy delivery and water process technologies to solve
their challenges locally. Power & Water works in all areas of the energy
industry including renewable resources such as wind and solar; biogas
and alternative fuels; and coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy.
The business also develops advanced technologies to help solve the
world’s most complex challenges related to water availability and
quality. Power & Water’s six business units include Distributed Power,
Nuclear Energy, Power Generation Products, Power Generation Services,
Renewable Energy and Water & Process Technologies. Headquartered in
Schenectady, N.Y., Power & Water is GE’s largest industrial business.
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