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 Poloplast Invests € 20 Million in Leonding Plant
Poloplast, a leading global manufacturer of plastic pipe systems for water supply, sewers, building services and compounds, continues on its strong growth path.  [more...]



 Climate Change and Water Management
Although forecasts are insufficiently accurate, the industry is well advised to initiate the relevant adjustments now. Read about the steps currently taken in Austria and Southeast Asia  [more...]



 Guidance on Digital Pipeline Management
A new ÖWAV guideline prepares theground for an integrated water supply & sewage disposal management and raises the chance of utilities to obtain funding for a digital pipeline management system (LIS)  [more...]



 Austria Could Take a Leaf out of the Czech Book
The Czech water industry is fully tuned in to the EU course. Unlike in Austria, private contractors play a crucial role; Czech authorities have a more relaxed attitude towards privatisation  [more...]



 K-net Wasser: Cards Have Been Reshuffled
With the relaunch as WATERPOOL Competence Network GmbH, research and industry are now equally represented. This supports the network in building water competence on a global scale  [more...]



 Salzburg AG: Your Access to an Open Electricity Market
With its power park, Salzburg AG commits itself to the use of renewable energies and in particular to electricity produced by eco-friendly hydropower.   [more...]



 Grid Dynamics Call for Flexible Pumped-Storage Plants
Austria seeks to draw even more benefit from its geographical location for increased energy efficiency: as one of only few European countries, it boasts excellent conditions for an economically and ecologically sustainable use of pumped-storage power plants.  [more...]



 Water Remains Core Responsibility of Communities
… says Austria’s new Environment Minister Niki Berlakovich. In his interview with aqua press, he also talks about environmental technology exports and jobs and about the extended use of hydropower  [more...]



 Drinking Fountain for Graz and the World
In the mid-1990s, one could count the number of public drinking fountains in Graz on the fingers of one hand.  [more...]



 Intersectoral and Efficient Planning
Future-oriented community officials pursue a cost-effective and integrated water policy. ÖWAV’s Community Water Development Plan assists them in planning  [more...]



 Buildup Is Better Than Downsize
Veolia Wasser GmbH has returned to Austria with its new manager Petra Höfinger. API asked her for an interview to discuss whether “more public, less private” has already become a trend  [more...]



 Energie AG Wasser: Up from Zero to 100 in 7 Years!
Energie AG Oberösterreich entered the water business through WDL only seven years ago. ago. Its acquisition of 1.JVS based in Budweis, Czech Republic in August has boosted the company’s turnover beyond the 100-millioneuro threshold, making it Austria’s biggest private service provider in the water and wastewater sector!  [more...]



 New Training: ÖWAV Master of Water Resources
The implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) will dramatically increase the need for an improved water resource management in Austria.  [more...]



 How to Best Coordinate EU Development Aid?
Central coordination of EU development aid appears to make sense, but has also a downside: taxpayers lose control over how their money is spent – especially in the case of “silent partnerships”  [more...]



 Using the Momentum of Zistersdorf
After a prolonged standstill, the new sewage treatment plant of Zistersdorf starting operation in late June adds a dynamic perspective to private-contractor construction and operation in Austria  [more...]



 CSR Guarantees a 'Skeleton-Free Cupboard'
While maximising short-term profits has been a must for many companies in recent years, today it is becoming clear that long-term success requires living company values  [more...]



 Energie AG: Stock Exchange Listing Has No Impact on Water
Backed by Austrian legislation and Upper Austria’s approved water strategy, fears expressed by the Upper Austrian Social Democrats appear to be rather unfounded  [more...]



 Wetlands Serve Many Purposes, but not for Sewage Treatment
The option debated within DRP to use wetlands for wastewater treatment due to their nutrient absorption capacity has now been rebutted by researchers  [more...]



 Is More Navigation Reconcilable with Ecology?
A € 200 million river development project by via donau seeks to make this happen and ultimately thwarts the Hainburg power plant project, ecologists say  [more...]



 Get Better now, before EU imposes Rules
The EU has brushed off liberalisation, but it still keeps an eye on water suppliers. In response to the EU’s request for modernisation, ÖVGW has launched a benchmark helping companies to position themselves  [more...]



 CHRIST took over Hungarian INNOTERV Rt
With the takeover of 100% of wastewater treatment technology company INNOTERV of Hungary, CHRIST subsidiary Aqua Engineering GmbH, Mondsee, steps up its municipal water business in Central and Eastern Europe.  [more...]



 Grundfos A/S wins all three prestigious EFQM Awards!
Since the award ceremony in Budapest on 7th November, the Danish pump manufacturer has taken its place among the best-leadership companies in Europe.  [more...]



 Rabmer Group acquires large project in Poland
After initial successes in Hungary and the Czech Republic in 1991, the Upper Austrian no-dig specialist has consistently enhanced its foreign expansion policy and last year also successfully entered the Polish market, where it could sign a first large-scale contract in August 2006.  [more...]



 Carinthia is going Bilingual
Hard to believe but true: the Austrian province, renowned for its defensiveness, has demonstrated by accepting French Veolia into AQUAssist that the face it turns towards foreigners may also be a friendly one  [more...]



 In-house Awards Cause Friction
After two judgements last year, the EU Commission and the ECJ are now directing their attention to services of general interest provided by inter-communal cooperation  [more...]



 WASSER BERLIN 2006: Bigger Than Ever
Focus on tried and tested water issues, progressive specialisation in network construction and operation and an orientation towards the “northeast” set the course for success  [more...]



 Legal Bureaucracy in Procurement Increases
The new public procurement law and several ECJ judgements impose inflexible procurement rules on an increasing number of contracts and wreak havoc with in-house awards  [more...]



 The (Austrian) Public Procurement Act 2006: Basic Facts
At first glance, the Public Procurement Act 2006 may give the impression that it favours the interests of the contracting authority. However, excessive use of this advantage entails a number of risks  [more...]



 C-net Water: Swing Into Spring!
The number of industry and research associates (most recently 90) participating in the Graz-based competence network   [more...]



 Public Private Partnership at Stake
Water liberalisation, so far, has primarily been a request of the European Commission. The 2005 rulings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) now suggest liberalisation might be sneaking in through the backdoor  [more...]



 EU Commission Approves Acquisition of VA TECH by Siemens!
On 13 July, the EU Commission approved Siemens’ bid to take over Austria’s VA Technologie AG (VA Tech).  [more...]



 Will Austria Soon be Divided?
The concentration of urban water management claimed many years ago by the then-Environment Minister Molterer progresses. One of the regional players is WDL GmbH  [more...]



 HydroVRTX BV Announces Agreement with German Arno Willers GmbH
AW Abwasser Wasser Technik GmbH has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with HydroVRTX™ of Almere Netherlands. Under this agreement Arno Willers GmbH will market, and install the VRTX™ chemical free water treatment system in Northern Germany.  [more...]



 Promotion of Novel Waste Water Technologies by the EU
The European Commission has decided to boost the development and application of European membrane bioreactor processes for municipal wastewater treatment through financing two projects within the scope of its 6th Framework Program.  [more...]



 Using the 'Break' for Trend Reversal!
Scepticism over private water services prevailed at a Chamber of Labour symposium in March, which analysed the Austrian "market" and those in the neighbour countries  [more...]



 Grundfos Took Further Expansion Step!
To further strengthen its market position in the field of dosing pumps – mainly for chemicals and all kinds of liquids in water treatment – the Danish pump Group Grundfos took over the German Group Alldos Eichler GmbH at the beginning of this year.  [more...]



 Management Buy-out Bears Fruit!
The name Berkefeld-Zuckriegl stands for top-level water treatment. The new owners are now expected to extend the range of products  [more...]



 Water Management in Flanders
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the long-term financing arm of the European Union, and Aquafin, the company responsible for the supra-municipal managing wastewater treatment facilities in Flanders, have signed a further loan to the tune of EUR 75 million.  [more...]



 New Impulse for Sustainability and Efficiency
In the framework of the financial equalisation talks, Austria’s Environment Minister Josef Pröll succeeded in securing annual subsidies of € 218 million for communal urban water management

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 Liberalisation through the Back Door?
Despite some rumours of withdrawal, French water corporations are still not only considerably present in developing and newly industrialising countries.  [more...]



 Searching for 48.35 Billion Euro
In the CEE countries, an unfavourable ratio prevails between tariff setting and necessary investment. A recent study highlights this problem  [more...]



 Quality Assurance in Urban Hydrology
The working group "Österreichische Güteanforderungen für Erzeugnisse im Siedlungswasserbau"/ÖGA (Austrian Quality Standards for Products in Urban Hydrology) develops state-of-the-art product standards for this purpose  [more...]



 VA Tech Successful in Styria
VA TECH ELIN EBG obtained the order for the complete electrotechnical systems of the large sewage plant Gössendorf from the City of Graz, municipality department 10/2.  [more...]



 Europe: Understanding the Attraction of Bottled Water
Manufacturers of residential drinking water treatment have to compete for customers on two levels, firstly with other residential water treatment equipment manufacturers and secondly, with suppliers of bottled water. Intra-industry competition generates advertising and promotional activity and is therefore beneficial to all manufacturers in the industry via the raising of consumer awareness and sales levels.   [more...]



 Rigorous Legislation Aids Expansion of Industrial Wastewater
In the face of growing consolidation and globalisation, contenders in the European industrial wastewater treatment equipment market are confronted with the increasingly difficult challenge of removing contamination of wastewater with maximum reliability and efficiency by utilising complete wastewater treatment solutions.  [more...]




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