Why did GE buy ZENON?
Jeff: ZENON filled a big hole in GE’s product offering for the water industry, and makes GE one of the industry’s largest suppliers of complete advanced water treatment solutions. Technologies like ZENON’s ZeeWeed ultrafiltration (UF) membranes will play a major role in solving the world’s most pressing water challenges, such as increasing water scarcity, declining water quality and rising infrastructure costs. ZENON strengthens GE’s product portfolio and opens many doors to outstanding synergies among our products, enabling GE to be a single-source supplier for virtually any water or wastewater project. For example, the recently announced Odessa Port Plant in Ukraine will combine ZeeWeed UF pretreatment with GE reverse osmosis (RO) and EDI to provide a 4-mgd desalination system for one of eastern Europe’s largest fertilizer manufacturers. There are many more projects like this one on the horizon. MT: What does GE bring to the municipal market? Jeff: ZENON is well established as a lead
