GE is expanding its wastewater treatment portfolio with the acquisition of Monsal, a private U.K.-based water, waste, advanced anaerobic digestion and integrated biogas-to-energy business.
Monsal, based in Mansfield, U.K., provides technology to treat biosolids and biowaste and convert it into renewable energy and saleable byproducts. The company has over 200 installed anaerobic digestion systems in the U.K.
With Monsal’s advanced anaerobic digestion technology and industry knowledge, GE will be able to help municipalities and industrial manufacturers shift from disposing wastewater treatment byproducts to generating renewable energy and other value from their streams.
The acquisition will help GE use its global reach, as well as commercial and execution capability, to take Monsal’s technology, integrate it with its own and proliferate it across the world, the company said.
“The acquisition of Monsal, with its advanced anaerobic digestion technology, will enable us to provide our customers with more energy-efficient options for water treatment solutions,” said Heiner Markhoff, president and CEO—water and process technologies for GE Power & Water.
GE can combine its wastewater treatment solutions with new, advanced anaerobic digestion technologies to convert biosolids to renewable sources of energy for their customers, Markhoff added.
The acquisition will also help Monsal bring their technologies to a wider audience and give R&D capabilities at a much larger scale than they have now, said Aidan Cumiskey, managing director, Monsal.
“We expect to expand our product and technology range with the GE resource, so that we become the ‘go-to’ company globally for anaerobic digestion,” said Aidan Cumiskey, managing director, Monsal.
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