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Water

DuPont buys another water treatment firm

by Michael McCoy
December 12, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 48

DuPont has signed an agreement to acquire Desalitech, a Massachusetts-based company that sells closed-circuit reverse osmosis water treatment systems. Desalitech says its approach allows 90–98% water recovery, versus the 75% typical with conventional reverse osmosis systems. DuPont is a major producer of reverse osmosis membranes and ion exchange resins. It struck deals earlier this year to acquire water filtration–membrane businesses from BASF and Evoqua Water Technologies.

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