Norwegian Sludge and Wastewater Management Companies Confident About India's 'Swacch Bharat' Mission - To Organize a Two-day Summit in New Delhi on 14th and 15th March 2016

NEW DELHI, March 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Top Norwegian technology companies with solutions for Indian sludge and wastewater management companies will be presenting their expertise to top Indian policy makers and leaders of municipalities and smart cities. The Norwegian delegation comes under the aegis of Clean Water Norway and is spearheaded by Cambi, a global leader in Thermal Hydrolysis Process (THP) for Advanced Anaerobic Digestion. The summit shall have presentations from Ministers - Government of India, Delhi Jal Board, municipal commissioners of various cities, Norwegian Ambassador to Indian and Norwegian financial institutions.

Harald Kleiven, Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Cambi said, "India is one of the most important markets for Cambi's THP solution. THP based digesters are a state of the art technology which will be an ideal fit for the treatment of sludge and food waste in upcoming Indian smart cities."

The summit will cover and focus on 4 themes; 'Technology & Innovation,' 'Regulation & Legislation,' 'Financial Structure' and 'Business Models.'

Clean Water Norway (Vannklyngen) is a water cluster with an interdisciplinary network in sludge, waste and water treatment. The cluster has 60 members from supplier industry, consultancies, academia and the public sector.

Aquateam COWI is a division within a large consulting company COWI providing environmental services and applied scientific research. Aquateam COWI's main areas of competence are water and wastewater treatment, resource recovery and tackling environmental and process challenges in the municipal and industrial sectors. Aquateam's experts support their customers with third party verification studies, process challenges, research, development and product innovation, technological assessments, commercialization of technologies and dissemination activities.

Cambi is a leading provider of technology for the conversion of sludge to renewable energy and high-quality biosolids. The company was founded in 1989 and has offices in 9 different countries. Led by DC Water, Thames Water and 5 projects for Beijing Drainage Group, Cambi has strong references in 53 projects worldwide, committed to the CambiTHP^[(R)] process. Cambi serves more than 50 million people in 19 countries and has been in discussion with leading municipalities and wastewater treatment plants in India.

EnviroNor, an environmental company, founded in March 2011, has its concepts based on proven technologies that draw on best practices from the maritime, oil and gas, water and sanitation process industries. By combining best available technologies from these industries and disciplines, it provides floating solutions for the world's water and sanitation challenges. Its re-purposed barges and ships can perform a variety of processes, including wastewater treatment, river purification and seawater desalination with lower CAPEX and minimal areal footprint.

HØST's core business is commercializing organic waste products, and it is the leading name within this field in Norway. Residues from biogas plants are a valuable source for production of fertilizers and soil improvers for the agriculture and landscaping sector. HØST is designing tailor made fertilizers based on sewage sludge for several crops and markets in Europe, Asia and Eurasia.

Salsnes Filter was established in 1991 and has specialized in solids separation for industrial and municipal wastewater treatment plants. Its focus has been to perfect its solids separation technology through research, product development, quality initiatives and close collaboration with partners and customers worldwide. This focus has produced a highly efficient and reliable filter that maximizes solids separation, while dramatically decreasing costs and at a very low footprint.

The GEA Group is one of the largest providers of equipment and process technology for the food, energy and environmental industries, where it ranks among the market and technology leaders. Within the environmental field, GEA Separation focuses on efficient solutions for sludge thickening and (pre-) dewatering, and utilizing state of the art decanter centrifuges. GEA solutions are sold and serviced through an international organization, with daughter companies in more than 50 countries worldwide and production facilities in Germany, France, India and China.

About NorIndic Research and Consulting:  

NorIndic Research and Consulting is a Norway-focused research and consulting firm with an incubator service for Norwegian companies in India. Norindic has a portfolio of top notch Norwegian companies and has incubated companies like Tronrud Engineering As, Piql As and Polar Quality As. In addition, it represents several other companies, some of which are Ardaco, Human Factors As and Seccom As. Our understanding of Nordic Business Culture (which, in many ways, differs for each country) helps us in adding value to companies from this region

For more information on the summit, contact:
Mr. Morten Hegge
+47-91713910
Regional Director India
Cambi

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