CTG SA will offer to the African market the entire CTG portfolio of proven technologies. The initial focus of CTG SA will be within select areas of the South African municipal sector offering waste water solutions. CTG SA will ultimately evolve into the provision of water, waste water and biogas solutions to municipalities and industries.

Mr. Gregory Mokgholwa was appointed as acting CEO at CTG SA. Mr. Mokgholwa is a highly experienced manager from the water utility industry in South Africa. Prior to joining CTG SA, Mr. Mokgholwa held the position of the Free State Regional Manager at the Water Sanitation Services of South Africa, where he also held the position of operations manager for 3 years. In addion, Mr. Mokgholwa began his career at the East Rand Water Care Company, ERWAT, where he held the position of Regional Works Manager. Mr. Mokgholwa holds a B.Sc. in Microbiology and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Water Utilization, both from the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Albatros Energy specializes in providing high quality and affordable pre-owned power equipment along with prompt, creative power solutions. Albatros Energy takes on challenging power projects not customarily seen in the Middle Eastern and African markets, as well as in other geographical areas or niche markets.

By creating the joint venture, both parties aim to expand the deployment of Elgressy systems in large cooling towers by leveraging Albatros Energy’s market exposure and customer network together with Elgressy’s extensive experience with smaller cooling towers, used in HVAC and other industrial applications.

CTG is excited to support Albatros Energy in their efforts in deploying cost-effective and ecologically-relevant power stations in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and the Middle East.

The region of Extremadura is striving to boost its capacity in the development and deployment of wastewater treatment plants, technologies for water purification, and related areas. CTG Integra has been central in expanding technological development in the fields of wastewater treatment plants, technologies for water decontamination, the treatment of contaminated ecosystems, and the efficient utilization of such water in agricultural processes.

Effluents from the Cobadu Limitada Bajo Duero S.A. animal feed mill in Moraleja Del Vino Zamora Spain were previously discharged directly into the river causing severe pollution. As a result, the there was a pressing need for an effective WWTP.

CTG Integra, met this challenge and designed and supervised the construction of a three-stage MBBR utilizing the plant’s effluent as its influent. Raw wastewater from the feed plant flows through a coarse mechanical screen into an equalization pond which is equipped with a surface aerator, near the outlet, for re-aeration. Wastewater is pumped from the pond at a constant rate, through fine mechanical screens, into the MBBR reactor. The MBBR configuration provides a treatment process based on a bio-film which provides organic carbon removal, as well as nitrification and de-nitrification. In the final stage, the effluent exits the reactor to a solids separation clarifier. This ensures that discharged water meets the most stringent effluent requirements.

The WWTP treats the effluent to the following quality specifications: Inlet/Outlet COD: 2100/125 mg/l, BOD: 820/25 mg/l, TSS: 202/35 mg/l

Llerena is a town in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura with a population of about 6,000. The Llerena municipality has deployed the filtering system to treat secondary treated effluent. The system meets new regulations of the state of Extremadura for feed water that the existing WWTP could not contend with.

The filtration system, using 3 micron filters, represents an innovative and unique solution for sediment removal. The system captures sediment in microfibers tightly wound around plastic cartridges, and then automatically cleans itself with a high-velocity stream of water deflected off the plastic cartridges. This sediment pre-filtration optimizes chemical use, reduces shadowing and scattering of UV radiation, and minimizes the creation of disinfection byproducts.
Following filtering the effluent undergoes chlorination.

The system delivers treated water with 0.3 ppm total suspended solids, and 99% removal of E. coli.
The Llerena municipality estimates that the plant will save consumption of 100,000 m³/year of drinking water and this will substantially improve the situation in the groundwater reservoir in the area.

CTG Israel’s research is being performed jointly with its partner in Spain, Hera, a company dealing in waste management and wastewater treatment. A first year’s research budget of NIS 1.85 million has already been approved with a grant of 40% and preliminary activities are under way in which the Technion will act as subcontractor to CTG Israel and will carry out laboratory activities and other research-related tasks.

The program involves a novel, effective, robust, and economic process for treating swine waste which combines nitrogen species removal, enhanced methane production and low cost phosphate recovery.

The project has completed laboratory testing and is presently entering an on-going pilot stage. The R&D program will bring the up-scaling to 10m³/day-size pilot plant and field testing in Israel and Spain. In the second year the plan is to reach a full scale, small size, 270m³/day working plant in Spain.

The EUREKA Executive Director Cooperation Programs for Europe on 25/6/2010 stated that CTG Israel has “obtained the EUREKA Status which indicates that the project . . . meets the high standards required for obtaining the Eureka Label.” He added “You are joining the prestigious group of about 250 Eureka projects that are granted a EUREKA label each year.”

Crown Solutions (Veolia North America) hosted the meeting and took the lead in presenting overviews and training to potential distributors. The company is a full-service industrial water management company which focuses on a cost-effective blend of service, chemistry, and equipment technologies. Crown Solutions has partnered with CTG US in supporting its distributors, providing comprehensive technical assistance, when required, and acting as a sales channel for Elgressy systems in the US.

CTG US was also able to deepen its understanding of distributors’ and customers’ requirements in key areas related to cooling tower maintenance. This will enable CTG US to better position the company in the North American market. In addition, CTG US is making a real effort to enhance its value proposition, as an international Cleantech company, and to deepen the bond with its partners and distributors.

Without waiting for formal agreement, several of these new distributors are already actively promoting Elgressy’s products.

About CTG US

CTG US, active since October 2008, is headed by Mr. Samuel Hochman, who has worked with Elgressy in the past and has achieved substantial success in the US market in various sectors. CTG US is building local operations in the United States based on joint ventures with companies, such as Crown Solutions.

Founded in 2000, Aqua Solutions already has several dozen working installations in industrial laundries, hotel chains, resorts, and the process-industry in Europe and the United States. The Aqua Solutions technology is an innovative concept for industrial laundering that offers major financial and commercial benefits to clients.

Aqua Solutions’ technology is a self-contained system, producing the cleaning and disinfecting solutions needed in the washing process. Aqua Solutions technology provides commercial enterprises with a modular, end-to-end solution that is easily integrated with any commercial laundry equipment. It has a small footprint, is straightforwardly installed, very economical to operate and provides major savings in water, electricity and chemicals.

There is a real synergy between Aqua Solutions’ green laundering facilities and the Elgressy (another CTG subsidiary) Cooling Towers Treatment systems. Both systems make use of electrochemical processes to reduce the use of chemicals in industrial water treatment and applications. Both companies can leverage on CTG’s international presence to ramp-up their market exposure and combine efforts when approaching companies that operate cooling towers and in-house industrial laundry machines.