Ion Exchange to launch first of its kind plant in India at Verna Ind Est today

PANAJI

Ajay Popat, president, Ion Exchange (India), said, "Earlier, we used to roll membrane at our plant in Verna. But, we decided to integrate completely and start right from polymerisation stage, as we are very strong in research and development. We have set up a new facility, which is close to our existing plant, wherein, we will indigenously develop polymers. We have facility for full casting and after that even rolling. We call this integrated reverse osmosis plant."
Membrane technology has increasingly become important in waste water treatment. Not only residential consumers, but even industries need treated water and this is where membrane technology
plays a very critical role.
Popat said that the integrated plant at Verna Industrial Estate will help Ion Exchange in reducing the cost of technology thereby making water treatment accessible to more people in India and abroad.
But, Ion Exchange has another connection with Goa as well, as Popat informed, "We had built the state of art sewage treatment plant at Panaji with a 12 million litres per day capacity way back in 2002."
Even earlier, Ion Exchange has built water treatment plants and effluent treatment plants for high-profile clients like Maruti Suzuki and Reliance Industries in other parts of India.
Popat further informed that Ion Exchange had also set up country's first sea water distillation plant in the 1990s.
Sometime back, the Supreme Court (SC), in a judgement, had said that the local bodies should be told that all industrial areas should have common effluent treatment plant (ETP) in the next three years.
Popat sees a huge business opportunity in this, as he said that Ion Exchange has ways to make ETP affordable to industries.