November 11, 2016
Micromet – Gearing up for mass production Staff from Adelaide company Micromet spent much of August in the major port and industrial city of Ningbo in China testing the company’s Generation 3 water treatment machine, which uses electrolysis to remove pollutants from contaminated water such as sewage, grey water, and industrial effluents. The in-situ tests are a pre-cursor to the establishment of a mass production model in Adelaide. Micromet Engineering Sales Director Andrew Townsend said the Gen 3 device could treat the desired two litres of water a second, adding that its one-tank design enabled mass manufacturing at a relatively low cost. According to Townsend, Australian products have a good reputation in the water treatment space in China. “They are very happy with ‘Made in Australia’,” he says. Micromet’s process uses continuous flow electrolysis methods with special anti-passivation technology that has eluded such systems in the past. The Micromet equipment is also very energy-efficient,…