Siemens Purchases Sole Rights to ITT’s Portacel Product Line

Siemens Water Technologies has been awarded the sole license for the global manufacture and supply of the entire range of products, service and replacement parts for ITT Corporation’s Portacel product line. ITT will no longer manufacture and sell Portacel products and spares. The licensing agreement includes the supply of products as well as aftermarket support of monitoring and dosing equipment for disinfection of potable water, and in particular, of vacuum dosing of gaseous and liquid chlorine. The licensing agreement will allow Siemens to broaden its scope of chemical feed and disinfection support worldwide.

Under the agreement, Siemens will acquire a significant installed base of equipment in approximately 20 countries. The company will continue to meet the needs of existing Portacel customers, and recently hired the former Portacel sales and marketing manager to continue overseeing sales of the product line at Siemens.

The product supply and aftermarket service agreement will be managed through Siemens Water Technologies’ office based in the United Kingdom. Siemens is a leading global provider of chemical dosing, metering, disinfection, chlorination and electrochlorination products, sold under such leading industry brands as Wallace & Tiernan and Stranco.

Press Release: January 2007

Siemens Water Technologies expands its range of disinfection products and solutions through acquisition.

Through its recent acquisition of Sunlight Systems, Siemens has made a valuable addition to its product portfolio for disinfection and ultra-pure water solutions.  Sunlight supplies a variety of water purification applications for disinfection, TOC (Total Organic Carbon) reduction and for the elimination of ozone and chlorine in water.

"With the Sunlight product lines, we are meeting the growing demand for UV disinfection products for water purification and wastewater applications in industry and local communities", said Roger Radke, CEO of the Water Technologies Division, which is part of the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S).  Sunlight supplies open-channel horizontal & vertical UV disinfection equipment for the municipal wastewater market, along with chambered systems for the municipal drinking & wastewater and industrial markets.

Siemens plans to further grow its UV product line by investing in product development for municipal and commercial drinking water, water reuse and other applications, and leveraging the Siemens global organization. The acquisition will also help support other Siemens businesses in the development of proprietary technologies in the growing field of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs).

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