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For more than two decades now, Norit has been
active in India, serving the local market with state-of-the-art
products and technologies.
Norit India (P) Ltd has now been set up in
Chennai, India. Setting up a Norit Sales Office locally is a
means of further improving our service and support in India, its
spokesperson said in Chennai.
"By doing this we can listen closely to
customer demands and respond to the needs of India's growing
industry and environmental awareness," he said.
Established in 1918, Norit has a
long-standing history and expertise in the field of activated
carbon treatment.
What began with the production of activated
carbon on industrial scale, mainly for discolouring sugar syrup,
soon advanced into a leading company operating worldwide.
Besides activated carbon, the product range includes membranes,
aseptic and hygienic valves, carbon dioxide systems, quality
control equipment and pumps allowing the Norit group to offer
cutting-edge components, systems and solutions to the
purification processes of potable water, process water,
wastewater, beer and beverages, dairy, food, pharmaceuticals,
flue gas and environmental control, to name just a few.
Today, more than ever, water is one of the
most valuable commodities on earth. Each year, the world
population is growing by about 90 million to an estimated 8.5
billion by 2025. Nearly 75 per cent of the world's fresh water
is locked into glaciers and icecaps, with virtually all the rest
underground. A very small percentage of the world's total water,
about 0.01 per cent, is easily available for human use.
Even this tiny amount would be sufficient to
meet the world's need if only it were distributed evenly.
However, this is not the case and our world today is divided
into water 'have' and 'have not' areas. Moreover, the
availability of water is declining and more than 2.6 billion
people around the globe do not have access to safe potable
water.
Being aware of this is definitely a challenge
and a driving force for the water section of the Norit group to
further advance their technologies in order to contribute to
providing safe potable and process water to everyone in the near
future, the spokesperson said.
"Seeing that already more than 8 per cent of
the world's population - more than half a billion people - use
water purified by Norit Activated Carbon and/or Membrane
Technology, is an acknowledgement of the hard work and efforts
taken so far and certainly an additional motivation," he added.
R Rangaraj
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