Keppel Corporation's environmental business is consolidated under the Keppel Integrated Engineering (KIE) group. A member of this group, Keppel Seghers, is a leading provider of comprehensive environmental solutions ranging from consultancy, design and engineering, technology and construction to operations and maintenance of facilities. Its advanced technology solutions address a wide spectrum of environmental issues such as solid waste, wastewater, drinking & process water, biosolids & sludge.

Keppel Seghers water/wastewater treatment expertise covers the full water cycle (including systems for wastewater treatment, process water, drinking water, desalination and water reuse.) With more than 350 plants built worldwide, Keppel Seghers has established itself as a leading player in the industrial, municipal and purification water market.

In Singapore, the Keppel Seghers Ulu Pandan NEWater Plant was officially opened by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 15 March 2007. The plant, the largest water reuse plant in East Asia and the second largest in the world, has a capacity to produce 32 mgd (148,000m3/day) of NEWater to supply over half of Singapore's current NEWater needs. The 20-year DBOO contract was awarded by PUB in early 2005 under the Public-Private Partnership initiative.

KIE's has set up the Keppel Environmental Technology Centre (KETC) to provide innovative and cost-effective environmental solutions through research collaboration with renowned institutions such as NUS, NTU, Cranfield University and Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. KETC will focus research efforts on energy recovery from solid waste and wastewater treatment, recycling and minimisation of residual by-products from waste and wastewater treatment, and membrane applications for producing water from non-conventional sources.

KIE's investments in technology have begun to yield results. In water solutions, we succeeded in carrying out the pilot run of the promising new Memstill® desalination technology.

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