Birla Cellulose ties up with Singapore’s Memsift to pilot wastewater recovery tech
Fiber manufacturer Birla Cellulose, a Aditya Birla Group, has tied up with Singapore-based Memsift Innovations, a maker of membranes for the wastewater industry to explore, co-develop and implement Memsift technologies for zero liquid discharge (ZLD) and resource recovery applications from the waste streams in Birla’s global operations.
Under an agreement, Birla Cellulose, a large global producer of the man-made cellulosic fibers, will pilot solutions using Memsift’s products with an objective of improving recovery technologies and help set up new benchmarks for reuse processes in the fiber production industry.
Birla Cellulose hopes to use the technologies to recover more than 95 per cent of water and chemicals from the waste. The joint piloting is expected to be completed by mid-2022, which will be followed by commercialization of the technology.
This partnership was facilitated by ABG Innovation Fund and enables pilots and co-development of new technologies leading to scaling up support for Memsift and innovative solution deployment at ABG. It also enables Memsift to engage with other projects at ABG businesses at early stages.
Memsift may licence the technology to ABG for sales in India and other identified geographies in a later phase upon successful implementation of pilots in ABG. Memsift’s STOMATE and TS-30 systems would be also piloted in various ABG’s manufacturing sites and adopted for initial reference before exploring the chemicals recovery and ZLD market in large, said an official statement.
“We are very excited about this partnership and happy to have ABG as a long-term partner in Memsift. This will allow us to work closely with ABG businesses to commercialize the state-of-the-art membrane distillation technology in industrial scale”, Memsift Innovations Founder & CEO Dr J Antony Prince said.
