V-LINE EUROPE AT IDA WORLD CONGRESS SINGAPORE
Singapore, 09/13/2005
Opening Day of the 2005 International Desalination Association (IDA) World Congress marked V-LINE Europe’s sixth attendance at this important biennial event. Singapore was chosen as the venue for the 5-day gathering of desalination professionals from all over the world in recognition of the Republic’s start-up of desalination as the fourth component of its water infrastructure program and the dedication ceremony of its 1st desalination plant on the second day of the Congress was attended by many of the visiting delegates.
The theme for this year’s event “Desalination: the tide has turned” was central to 150 technical presentations on the latest advances in desalination design, construction, operations, maintenance and finance. Keynote speaker H.E. Abdullah Al-Hussayen, Minister of Water and Electricity for Saudi Arabia, opened the conference outlining desalination’s global role and prognosticating on the decade ahead from perspective gained in a twenty-five year experience in the Kingdom’s program which has grown to 27 desalination plants now producing 576 million gallons of desalinated water daily.
V-LINE’s role in desalination is its cross-border plant spare parts supply service. It has since its founding provided parts from Europe, USA, and Japan to SWCC in Saudi Arabia and government and private water plant owners in most other Gulf State countries. Detlev Daues, V-LINE CEO, said “My first IDA Congress was 1991 in Washington, the highlight this year for me was Minister Al Hussayen’s keynote speech in which he so clearly depicted the extent of global water scarcity in the decade ahead and laid out the twin approach of technology (desalination investment) to address increasing supply and demand management (conservation programs/hardware) to slow down the rate of demand by addressing leakage, waste and inefficient practice. ”An interesting aspect of this twin approach was the complementary character of demand management – low capital cost/quick ROI and technology – high capital cost/long ROI” said Mr. Daues. “As a maintenance/repair/operations (MRO) parts and supplies provider we take part in both approaches” he said.
From the view point of investment, the Congress pointed towards a decade of continued accelerating growth. This was evident in the papers and discussion forums and on the exhibition floor for major industry manufacturers & service providers. Mr. Al-Hussayen was reported in Arab News as citing that water desalination projects would require $500 Billion within the next ten years.
*to see speech in entirety click keynote speech link above.
About V-LINE
The V-LINE Group of Companies,
headquartered in Sehnde near Hanover, Germany, was founded In l979 to
provide capital intensive industrial plants in the Middle East with
services aimed at reducing total procurement costs of cross border
(foreign-made) spare parts. Today, from two buying / warehousing /
logistics operations in Japan and the United States and its main
operations and administrative hub in Germany, it serves a global
customer base of large organizations on every continent. For further
information, please visit website www.v-line.com
or contact by phone: country code + 5138/7008-0 (DE); 732/493-1400
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