WaterProof Magazine nr 1 2021

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Vechtstromen Water Board: nearly €260,000 for innovation projects Vechtstromen Water Board [active in the northeast of the Netherlands] is distinguishing itself with

‘WHERE TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES LOOK AT THE OUTSIDE, WE LOOK INTO THE HEART OF THE MOTOR’

SEMIOTIC LABS /SAMOTICS WINS WIS AWARD 2020

a great initiative: the investment of close to €260,000 in various regional innovation projects. The projects include a pilot study focusing on drug residue removal from wastewater at the Emmen purification plant, as well as funds for a regional education project, drought relief and climateproof construction.

Online wastewater monitoring

Industriewater Eerbeek

On 11 January, Nijhuis Saur Industries and Qsenz installed an i-QUALITY measuring system at Industriewater Eerbeek, about 30 kilometres

‘Le Moment Supreme’. Samotics’ Simon Jagers ‘receives’ the 2020 WIS Award.

north of Arnhem. Industriewater Eerbeek provides wastewater treatment for three paper factories in

Water technology company and Water

down, especially when they use electric motors.

Eerbeek: Coldenhove, DS Smith Paper De Hoop

Alliance member Semiotic Labs won the

“Where traditional techniques look at the outside,

and Mayr-Melnhof. As such, the plant processes

2020 WIS Award with its innovative SAM4

we look into the heart of the motor”, says founder

around four million cubic meters of water

monitoring unit in December. The company

Simon Jagers. Jury chairman Cees Buisman (Wetsus)

annually. “Industrie Water Eerbeek now has real

underwent a name change in March 2021

announced the winner during an online final, which

time insight into the quality of all water flows, so

and is now operating under the name

was broadcast from Studio Z in Leeuwarden on

they know what is coming in and how to treat it at

Samotics.

Friday, 18 December. The entire broadcast can still be

any moment”, said Ewout Riteco, sales manager at Qsenz. Source: WaterForum

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viewed on WaterProof TV. SAM4 can predict when and why machines such as wind turbines, production equipment in factories

There is an article on Samotics elsewhere in

and the conveyor belts at Schiphol Airport break

this issue.


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