- 5 September 2008 -
KSB wins major order for Algerian desalination plant
At the end of April 2008 the KSB Group received an order for the supply pumps and valves to a new seawater desalination plant being built in Tlemcen, western Algeria.

- 14 March 2008 -
New pumps for seawater desalination
Seawater desalination using the reverse osmosis principle is an increasingly viable method of desalination. KSB has developed a new version of its Multitec range.

- 16 January 2008 -
Ebara seawater pumps for multi-stage flash evaporation
Throughout the Middle East and Arabian Gulf, multi-stage flash evaporation desalination is very much the preferred technology for the production of potable water. Several factors contribute to this, the key ones being the abundance of waste heat and the corrosive nature of the region's seawater. Bryan Orchard looks at how one company, Japan's Ebara, has addressed the issue of seawater intake pumping.

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