Majis Industrial Services, and TOSHIBA Water Solutions have signed two agreements worth a combined contract value of OMR3.27mn to boost the Sultanate’s leading water solutions provider’s wastewater treatment capacity and improve the efficiency of its Reverse Osmosis (“RO”) plant both in terms of costs and reliability.

The first contract, valued at OMR 2.8mn, involves design, construction, testing and commissioning of a Rapid Gravity Filter technology project. Expected to be commissioned before the end of next year (2020), it will handle 83,000m3/day of seawater as pre-treatment of feed water for Majis’ RO plant at SOHAR Industrial Port.

HE Hideaki Yamamoto, Interim Charge D’Affaires at the Embassy of Japan in the Sultanate of Oman, attended the signing ceremony held at the Grand Hormuz Hotel, Muscat today. Ahmed Al-Mazrouy, CEO of Majis Industrial Services, and Koichi Matsui, CMD of TOSHIBA Water Solutions were present at the event.

According to the release, this project will enable Majis to mitigate disruptions caused by Harmful Algal Bloom (“HAB”), and to minimise outages – ensuring a reliable and high-quality service to customers.

Apart from that it will also reduce Majis’ carbon footprint by reducing consumption of electricity by 0.25 kWhr/m3 of processed water, meaning 30,000m3 of water processed per day will use 7,500 kWhr less power.

The second contract is valued at OMR0.468mn and will involve the design and procurement of containerized effluent treatment plants with a capacity of 1.2MLD.

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To be completed by end of this year (December 2019), the plants will treat effluent received from Majis’ industrial customers, to handle growing demand for wastewater treatment at SOHAR Port & Freezone.

The project will add treatment and recycling capacity to Majis’ 20MLD plants, which treat sewage and industrial waste. On completion of the project, Majis will have capacity to receive an additional 1,200 m3 of effluent per day, the release said.

According to Ahmed Al-Mazrouy, CEO of Majis Industrial Services, “These projects are a milestone for Majis, as we take steps to mature and modernise our infrastructure. The containerized effluent treatment plants are important for increasing our capacity to treat and recycle wastewater, while the Rapid Gravity Filter project will greatly improve the efficiency of our Reverse Osmosis facility.

He added that they have selected the right partner in TOSHIBA for their superb track record, which is aligned with Majis’ own vision for growth.

“In establishing these projects, we are taking important steps towards increasing the scale of our operations, improving cost-efficiency, and supporting the environmental agenda we have set ourselves.”