GUELPH, ON, July 12 /CNW/ - Dr. Gene Shelp, President of ENPAR
Technologies Inc., is pleased to announce that Blue Print Technologies (Pty)
Ltd., supported by the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) of
the Republic of South Africa, is making significant marketing advances into
the South African market for the Company's DesEL System
The DesEL System, ENPAR's patented capacitive deionization technology is
designed to remove dissolved inorganic substances from drinking water and
waste water, has been successfully tested in the CSIR laboratory on several
industrial effluents provided by Majuba Power Station, Vaal River Gold Mine,
Grootvlei Gold Mine, Navigation Section of Landau Colliery, Namakwa Sands
(Heavy Minerals) and Bafokeng Platinum Mine.
Based on the laboratory successes, on June 28, 2005 the team commenced
on-site testing at the Bafokeng Anglo Platinum Mine using a mobile DesEL-10A
unit designed to treat 24 m3/d. The unit will be operated for a period of 60
days by CSIR. ENPAR's V.P. Product Development & Research, Mr. Len Seed,
M.Sc., P.Eng., is now in South Africa to supervise the commissioning of the
unit and to visit potential clients. Several other on-site testing programs
are planned for the next 12 months. It is anticipated that successful testing
will result in full-scale installations in the near future.
ENPAR is a "Technology Company" applying its patented and proprietary
"Electrochemical Technologies" to the treatment of waste water and drinking
water contaminated by metals or nutrients i.e., nitrate/ammonia associated
with the mining, metal processing, chemical, agricultural, municipal and waste
management sectors. The common shares trade on Tier ll of the TSX Venture
Exchange under the symbol "ENP".
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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