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INTERNATIONAL Komatsu has entered into an agreement to acquire GHH Group VA TECH WABAG (‘WABAG’), a leading pure-play water technology
KOMATSU ANNOUNCES PLANS TO ACQUIRE GERMAN-
WABAG SECURES INDUSTRIAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT
OR-DER IN ROMANIA WORTH ABOUT `260 CRORES
BASED MANUFACTURER GHH GROUP GMBH
(EUR 30 MILLION)
GmbH (GHH), a manufacturer of underground mining, tunnelling
and special civil engineering equipment headquartered in Gel-
Indian Multinational Group, further enhances its leadership in
senkirchen, Germany. Founded in the 1960s and currently part
the Industrial water treatment market in Romania with WABAG
of the German-owned Schmidt Kranz Group, GHH of-fers a wide
Water Services S.R.L., Romania (‘WABAG Romania’), its European
range of equipment focused on loaders (LHDs) and articulated
(‘Purolite’) worth about `260 Crores (EUR 30 Million) towards
dump trucks in the mid-seam mass mining, narrow vein and low-
profile market segments The company also supports customers subsidiary, securing a repeat order from Purolite S.R.L, Romania
upgrading the Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant (‘WWTP’) in
with aftermarket parts and service support through the entire life Romania. The contract will be an Engineering & Procurement (‘EP’)
of each ma-chine. Komatsu will add GHH’s factories and rebuild scope contract which includes de-sign & engineering, equipment
facilities in key mar-kets, in addition to its robust product offerings supply, installation, commissioning and start-up of the Puro-lite
and talented staff. Komatsu intends to continue the excellent Victoria WWTP. The project is scheduled to be executed over a
service GHH provides and plans to support business as usual 24-month period.
post-acquisition. The combined team will then work together to The existing plant, located in Victoria, Brasov County, was designed
expand Komatsu’s offering for underground mining equipment to treat 5,820 m3/day of wastewater generated from resin
and increase customer access to products in new territo-ries. The production. Purolite has planned to increase the production and
official close of the acquisition is projected for the first half of 2023. an increased wastewater flow will result from production. Thus, an
upgrade of the exist-ing WWTP has become necessary.
INDIA’S SHAPOORJI PALLONJI BAGS CONSTRUCTION The upgrade will include additional pre-treatment, extension of
CONTRACT FOR SAUDI SEVEN AL HAMRA PROJECT existing lamella clarifiers and new Reverse Osmosis stage, in order
India-based Shapoorji Pallonji, one of the largest engineering, to treat the effluent up to national NTPA001 discharge criteria.
procurement, and con-struction conglomerates in the region, The key features of the WWTP upgrade includes:
has secured a contract from Saudi Arabia’s PIF-backed Saudi • Influent pretreatment, Cooling, neutralization
Entertainment Ventures (SEVEN) to undertake the construction • SO4 and calcium precipitation and solids separation
and management of its Al Hamra project. SEVEN’s entertainment • Reverse osmosis treatment stage
destination in Al Hamra has an investment value of more than • Brine Evaporation Crystallizations
$797.7 million (SAR3 billion) and will be developed on a land area
of more than 90,000m2. The development will have a built-up IRCON SECURED FOREIGN PROJECT IN SRI LANKA
area of 167,000m2 and will occupy a strategic location at the Ircon International Limited (IRCON), a Miniratna (Category-I)
intersection of the Eastern Ring Road and King Abdullah Road. Schedule -A, Public Sector Enterprises has secured an order on
SEVEN Al Hamra is expected to attract 6 million visitors per year competitive bidding basis valuing USD 14.89 Million in Sri Lanka.
by providing world-leading entertainment attractions. Shapoorji IRCON has awarded the work for procurement of Design,
Pallonji takes up role on a “path-breaking venture. The construction Installation, Testing, Commis-sioning and Certifying of Signalling
and management agreement for SEVEN’s Al Hamra was signed by and Telecommunication system from Maho Junction (Including)
Abdullah AlDawood, chairman of SEVEN, and Vidya Sagar, vice to Anuradhapura (Excluding) by Sri Lanka Railways, Ministry of
president of Shapoorji Pallonji. SEVEN Al Hamra will feature many of Transport, Sri Lanka, under Indian Line of Credit at a total price of
SEVEN’s signature entertainment experiences including an indoor USD 14.89 Million equivalent to ap-prox. INR 122 Crore. IRCON has
hubless wheel, Wave House indoor surfing, a 10-lane bowling secured his work on competitive bidding basis and the contract
al-ley, indoor skydiving, an indoor karting racetrack, as well as period will be 24 months from the date of signing of the Contract
cinemas, restaurants, cafes, international retail stores, and fitness. Agreement. Ircon International Limited is a Miniratna (Category
Key attractions within SEVEN Al Hamra - I) Schedule A, Public Sector En-terprise and a leading turnkey
• Numerous world-first entertainment attractions Construction Company in the public sector known for quality,
• Discovery indoor adventures centre – an edutainment commitment, and consistency in terms of performance.
attraction The core competence of IRCON is in Railways, Highways & Extra
• Clip ‘n Climb – featuring 40 unique climbing challenges High Tension substa-tion engineering. The company has executed
• A Transformers themed ride-based attraction projects operated in the areas of Railway construction including
SEVEN has partnered with international design companies ballast less track, electrification, tunneling, signal & telecommu-
including AOA, Calli-sonRTKL in collaboration with Thinkwell, WME, nication as well as leasing of locos, construction of roads,
and Ellis Don to design these Saudi entertainment projects. highways, commercial, indus-trial & residential buildings and
In addition to Al Hamra, each of the destinations developed by complexes, airport runway and hangars, metro and mass rapid
SEVEN will be located strategically across the country to serve transit system, etc. IRCON has widespread operations in several
the wider population of the kingdom for easy accessibility. The states in India and other countries (Ma-laysia, Nepal, Bangladesh,
upcoming Saudi entertainment projects will be located in Riyadh, South Africa, Algeria, Myanmar and Sri Lanka). Company has
Kharj, Makkah, Jeddah, Taif, Dammam, Khobar, Al Ahsa, Madinah, completed more than 128 projects in 25 countries across the
Yanbu, Abha, Jazan, Buraidah, and Tabuk. globe and 398 projects in various states in India.

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