Hungarian military orderZenon handed $11-million order from Hungarian military
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Tuesday September 14 2004 - News Release
Mr. Andrew Benedek reports
HUNGARIAN MILITARY IS FIRM BELIEVER IN ZENON TECHNOLOGY
The Hungarian military's recent order for Zenon Environmental Inc. technology over the next two years reinforces the military's confidence in the company's systems to protect its troops from any form of water contamination. Hungary's military has been using Zenon's military drinking water units since 1998, including the Mini ROWPU (manually transportable reverse osmosis water purification unit) and the ADROWPU (advanced double pass reverse osmosis water purification unit).
Since joining NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in 1999, Hungary's ground forces put Zenon's military units to the test in places such as Kosovo, where its military formed part of the International Peace Implementation Force. Its satisfaction with the systems resulted in a breakthrough order for Zenon's Hungarian plant to supply additional ADROWPU, Mini ROWPU and water bagging machines, with a total order value of approximately $11-million.
Unlike most water filtration installations, military relief operations are often deployed to locations with minimal to non-existent municipal infrastructure; they can be deployed anywhere there is a need. In the majority of cases, military personnel are not fully aware of the quality of the raw water source. Upon arrival at their destination, their equipment must be quickly mobilized, simple to operate, easy to support and most importantly provide a continuous supply of safe drinking water.
The ADROWPU and Mini ROWPU units are designed specifically to meet such needs, ensuring durability and reliability. Both Zenon systems use the company's proprietary ZeeWeed membranes that work as a pretreatment to reverse osmosis membranes (RO). The combination of ZeeWeed and RO membranes is ideally suited for virtually any type of field deployment because it completely removes suspended and dissolved solids, including salts, metals and nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) agents.
"When military forces are sent on a mission, peacekeeping or humanitarian relief, the availability of safe, pure water is paramount to their survival and to the success of their operation," said Andrew Benedek, chairman and chief executive officer of Zenon. "Our units have already been proven in the field in places like Cambodia, Haiti, Honduras, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Qatar, Somalia and Rwanda. We're proud to supply the technology that helps save lives -- our products provide certainty where none exists."
The ADROWPU is a fully automated unit with a self-contained power supply, control and ancillary equipment and produces up to 31,700 gallons of drinking water per day (120 cubic metres). The system is designed for use in temperate, desert, tropical and arctic conditions. The Mini ROWPU is a more modular, lightweight system, easily transportable and set up by two people while requiring only a single operator. The unit is designed for use and maintenance in severe environments, requiring no process chemicals or additives. While more compact in size than the ADROWPU, the Mini ROWPU produces up to 3,170 gallons of drinking water per day (12,000 litres).
Hungary joins Canada, the United States and Mexico in the deployment of these units for various emergency, humanitarian and peacekeeping missions.
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