Pond and sea water supply options for Sabah
Published on: Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Kota Kinabalu: In times of drought, Sabah can avail clean treated water from ponds, rivers and sea by using portable water treatment units.Drinkable clean water treatment and supply is the key to public health safety as human beings in any social setting or location being cannot survive more than a week without adequate clean water supply.The Toray Group Monday displayed its portable water treatment unit which can remove virus, bacteria, heavy metal and organic substances by using reverse osmosis (RO) technology.
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Hiroshi Yoshimura, managing director of Toray Industries (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. said in his speech that, "water is a precious resource which all living organism cannot survive without."Water treatment product specialist Toray Group founded in Japan in 1926 and started business in Malaysia more than 40 years ago in 1973 as Toray Group Malaysia (TGM) with eight manufacturing plants is one of its significant investments outside Japan.Its Core Growth Driving Businesses of fibre, textile, plastics and chemicals makes it the leading market leader in these business fields. Currently, Toray Group has some 100 companies in Japan and 155 other companies in over 26 countries employing 45,800 with annual turnover in excess of 2.0 trillion yen (RM70 billion).Toray is only one company with expertise across the entire spectrum of high-performance water treatment membrances, including reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, nano-filtration (NF) membranes, ultra-filtration (UF) membranes, micro-filtration (MF) membrances and membrane bioreactors.
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Toray membrane offers integrated skills and expertise in water and wastewater treatment technologies and complementary water treatment products. Toray also supply seawater desalination units.Its seawater desalination units are used in many countries as part of their daily life water production plants, power stations and chemical plants. Toray fuses nanotechnology into its operations, using organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry and biotechnology.
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With its corporate philosophy 'Contributing to society through the creation of new value with innovative ideas, technologies and products,' Toray promotes the global development of IT-related products, carbon fibre composite materials, environment, engineering pharmaceutical and medical products, besides water treatment.In Malaysia, under the supervision of Toray Industries (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Penfibre Sdn. Bhd., Penfabric Sdn. Bhd., Toray Plastics (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. and Toray BASF PBT Resin Sdn. Bhd. encompass five key business areas: polyester fibres, textiles, plastic resins, polyester films and battery separator films.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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