Hitachi to sign contract to set up desalination plant at Dahej
December 23, 2012
Ahmedabad, 23 December 2012
Japanese industrial solutions giant Hitachi will sign a contract with the Gujarat government next month for setting up of a sea water desalination plant at Dahej by 2015 that will treat 3.36 lakh tonnes of water every day. The plant will be developed under Build-Own-Operate-Maintain (BOOM) method according to Hitachi India Managing Director Ichiro Iino.
The project will be executed by a consortium of four partners where apart from Hitachi, other parties include Hyflux from Singapore, Japan’s Itochu Corporation and the Gujarat government.The project will be developed by Indo-Japan joint investment and largely be financed by Japanese government.
The treated water will be sold to Dahej SEZ. Also factories at Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) will purchase desalinated water from this plant.
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