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BBR reaches agreement with a US water authority
BBR reaches agreement with a US water authority.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 1467B Verditek PLC 08 January 2018 \n\n8 January 2018\n \nVerditek PLC\n \n(\"Verditek\" or the \"Company\")\n \nBBR reaches agreement with Northeast US water authority and partners with Isle Utilities to carry out a targeted market survey in the US\n \nVerditek plc, (AIM: VDTK), the clean technology company, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, BBR Filtration Limited (\"BBR\"), a filtration deodorisation company, has agreed to undertake a trial with a water authority in Northeast of the United States (\"US\").\n \nBBR has also partnered with Isle Utilities, an internationally renowned innovation technologist, in order to undertake a market survey to research odour problems at treatment plants and lift stations across the US.\n \nBBR has reached a preliminary agreement with a water authority in the Northeast US to commence a trial in early spring 2018 at a wastewater treatment plant where odour control has become one of the authority's main priorities. The water authority believes that BBR's filtration technology will provide an innovative, efficient and cost effective solution to its current ineffective odour control processes.\n \nBBR commissioned Isle Utilities to undertake a 'Voice of Market' survey with a number of US water authorities across eight states. The objective of the survey was to establish the magnitude and scale of odour problems at treatment plants and lift stations, explore the efficacy of existing removal and control solutions, and gauge the current and future demand for new solutions to replace underperforming systems.\n \nThe results are extremely encouraging and illustrate that over 70% of the water authorities contacted in this survey, who operate a total of more than 1,500 sewage pumping stations, reported major odour issues. As a result, 9 companies have provisionally agreed to meet with BBR immediately in order to consider the use of BBR's biofiltration technology.\n \nFollowing the result of this survey, BBR will continue to work closely with Isle Utilities on further market research commissions, aimed at helping BBR to establish and grow its manufacturing and business base in the US, and other territories including Europe and Australasia.\n \nVerditek's CEO, Theo Chapman, commented: \"This feedback is critical to progres...