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www.ges.co.il 2 //3 GES is an international leader in the design and construction of Sea Water and industrial and municipal Water and Wastewater Treatment plants and facilities worldwide.

With its vast experience of over 30 years the maintenance solutions for newly constructed plants company provides full scope of process engineering, as well as retrofitting and enlarging existing plants construction and operation services to municipal and under Turn-Key, BOT, BOOT or BOO schemes on industrial customers around the world. behalf of municipal and industrial clients in and From its headquarters at the Na’aman industrial zone around the world. in Akko Israel, GES manages the operations of its GES is owned by Granite HaCarmel, an industrial local 200 professional employees and controls its holding company, traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock international team of 50 employees. GES operates in Exchange and operates in the energy, water and Central America via PURITEC – GES wholly owned construction materials sectors. Granite HaCarmel is subsidiary, providing comprehensive and wastewater treatment solutions to regional and part of the of companies which includes municipal clients With its strong financial backing, Israel’s leading nationwide chain of income-producing professional personnel and skilled managerial layer, properties whose market value (10/2011) was GES provides design, construction and operation and approximately $2.9 billion. GES operates in the following sectors:

Desalination In recent years, desalinated sea water turned to be a significant source for safe and clean potable water and the demand for efficient and cost effective desalination technology is ever increasing. GES provides design, construction and O&M solutions for newly constructed SWRO Desalination plants at every capacity, in addition to retrofitting and upgrading existing plants. GES advanced designs provides customers with record low desalination plant energy consumption levels. This is achieved by analyzing the natural land grade of the site and the installing larger low velocity pipes, by utilizing energy recovery technologies, Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) and the most efficient pumps and motors. GES uses advanced “low energy” proven membranes with low-flux membrane approach and design operation regimes for minimizing operation during peak time electricity tariffs. GES applies advanced energy recovery techniques such as using the pressure of the concentrate outlet lines for boosting the pressure of the RO feed lines. GES desalination solutions operation costs are highly competitive; this is achieved via low chemical consumption, utilizing biological water filtration methods and small footprint design and construction.

Municipal wastewater treatment GES implements the most advanced environmentally friendly wastewater treatment technologies in support of efficient, cost effective management of large scale treatment plants, including: Pretreatment, Advanced Biological Secondary and Tertiary treatment including MBR, Filtration and Disinfection and Sludge treatment processes up to class A sludge quality. GES also implements the most advanced monitoring and remote control technologies to ensure that the plants and facilities operate in compliance with the required public health and water quality standards. GES wastewater treatment plants operation costs are highly competitive; this is achieved via the company’s capacity of interdisciplinary data transfer between its engineering and operations departments. This enables the operation of the plants to be based on optimal design, advanced technology and top level engineering personnel; all contributing together to the company’s competitive edge.

4 //5 Industrial water & wastewater treatment GES provides full scope of water and wastewater treatment process engineering and construction services to global industrial sectors such as power plants, chemical and petrochemical, food and beverage, cosmetics & drugs, biotechnology manufactures, institution & hospitals, local authorities and national companies supplying water and electricity, etc. Utilizing its advanced process development capabilities and proven track record, GES provides the most advanced environmentally friendly water purification, recycling and wastewater treatment technologies in support of reliable, efficient and cost effective industrial process. GES technology includes full redundancy, low cost, “near to” zero liquid discharge (ZLD) systems for power stations, producing ultra pure water while achieving high recovery ratio and maximum reuse of water. GES incorporates to its designs electricity generation processes and its own development of fully integrated compact, modular water and wastewater treatment systems, complying with the latest environmental and public health standards.

Operation & Maintenance GES enhances the added value provided to its customers by providing them with operation and maintenance services in addition to the engineering and the construction services. GES O&M services are provided via TK, PPP, BOT and other contract types to new, retrofitted, enlarged and existing plants in all GES markets. GES O&M services are based on the companies experience in operating large scale plants and on its built- in synergy between the Engineering and the Operation departments. Several factors support GES capacity of providing highly competitive O&M costs. These include skilled and experienced central managerial layer, highly trained teams and experts who specialize in the unique operational requirements of each specific project, the usage of advanced technologies and remote monitoring telemetric equipment, professional laboratory support and in house R&D department. GES Desalination

With vast experience in the desalination market, advanced process technology development capabilities and strong financial backing, GES provides its customers with full scale desalination services, including process design, high quality construction, operation and maintenance of desalination facilities for either industrial or municipal use. GES provide solutions for retrofitting and enlarging existing plants, building Turn-Key, BOT, BOOT or BOO new desalination plants and providing Operation and Maintenance services via TK, PPP, BOT and other types of contracts. GES solutions enables RO based desalination and treatment of a large range of ocean, surface, underground, municipal, industrial and other saline and brackish raw water sources. GES advanced process design concepts provide for record low energy desalination plant energy consumption levels. This is achieved through process design which incorporates the hydraulic profile and the natural land grade of the site with larger low velocity pipes, utilizing energy recovery technologies, Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) and the most efficient pumps and motors. GES uses advanced “low energy” proven membranes with low-flux membrane approach and design operation regimes for minimizing operation during peak time electricity tariffs. GES also apply advanced energy recovery techniques such as using the pressure of the concentrate outlet lines for boosting the pressure of the RO feed lines through energy recovery turbochargers. GES desalination solutions operation costs are highly competitive; this is achieved via low energy consumption design, utilizing biological water filtration methods and small footprint design and construction. GES advanced process technology development capabilities result in cost-effective, technologically efficient, and implementable means to desalinate water. This is achieved by in-house development and solution testing at the company’s operations sites and through collaboration with international Industry bodies.

GES Desalination Highlights: 1977 | GES first steps in desalination; building the first 440,000 m³/year sea water RO in Eilat Israel 2005 | Commissioning of the 30Million m³/year Palmachim desalination plant that in 2010 increased its capacity to 45 Million m³/year 2009 | Purchase of 44.2% of Palmachim desalination plant shares from SPC partners 2010 | Retrofitting and upgrading the Via Maris desalination plant and integrating Energy Recovery devices by ERI 2011 | Tender award by the Israeli Water Authority for the addition of 45,000 million m³/year 2011 | GES Purchased 24% of Tahal shares in the plant (Via Maris desalination ltd) and becomes 100% Owner 2013 | Expected completion and full scale operation of the enlarge 100 Million m³/year facility

6 //7 Palmachim - Sea water Desalination Plant Current Capacity – 45,000,000 m³/year Planned Capacity – 90,000,000 m³/year

Rapid growth of population, together with several years GES Palmachim project highlights: of severe drought, almost depleted the Israeli seashore Commercial: aquifer. The intensive pumping of potable water out of • Client - the Israeli Government this lower than sea-level aquifer raised the risk of sea • Agreement - 25 years BOO Current water penetration and the destruction of this ancient • Expansion - from existing 45,000,000 natural resource. m³/year to 90,000,000 m³/day by 2013 • Ownership - In 2011 GES became the sole owner of the project As a result, in 2002 the Israeli government commissioned the • The world’s largest hybrid seawater construction of a BOO 30 Million m³/year desalination plant in membrane based reverse-osmosis Palmachim area, just south of the Tel-Aviv metropolis. system (2011) combining Pelton turbine The project’s purpose was to supply Mekorot, the national water and PX energy recovery device company, with top quality Mediterranean desalinated water. • Real-estate efficiency - built on 3 hectare only; 30% of the 10 hectare As a leading international energy, water and environment industry standard solution provider company, GES, through its subsidiary VIA MARIS DESALINATION LTD, raised to this challenge. • Record construction time - addition of 15,000,000 m³/day in less than 1 year GES provided the Palmachim Reverse Osmosis project with process design, construction and operation; utilizing its excellent experience in supplying and operating low energy, Technical: low chemicals consumption desalination plants. • Multi layer deep bed media filtration

The construction and commissioning process of this 25 years • First desalination pass - six 1000 m³/hr BOO project was completed in record time, the plant’s high • Parallel expandable RO trains efficiency low cost operation generates excellent quality potable • Second pass - three 1400 m³/hr parallel water complying with the Boron, Chloride and Soluble Salts expandable RO trains, operating at an highest potable water standards and specifications. extremely high water recovery ratio of 98% • Ion exchange softeners located in between the passes enable pH elevation in the second pass thus boron removal is enhanced with no risk of scaling • Low Chemical Consumption – 50% of the industry benchmark • Low energy consumption • Operated by 20 highly trained and qualified GES team of professionals Ktziot - Brackish Water Desalination Plant Total Capacity – 3,000,000 m³/year

As the Israeli national water carrier Mekorot is responsible Ktziot project highlights: for supplying high quality water for residential and Commercial: agricultural use, even in the most remote regions of • Client - Mekorot, the Israeli national water the country. Through Ktziot desalination plant Mekorot carrier company supplies water to Ramat-Negev area, near the Sinai • Type of project - 3 million m³/year Desert. The facility receives raw water from two deep turn-key brackish water desalination plant saline wells located at a distance of about 9 kilometers • Project’s value - $6 million from the plant. The overall salinity of these wells is 5,000 mg/l, the chloride concentration is approximately Technical: 2,500 mg/l, and the water temperature is 38 degrees • Low energy consumptions Centigrade. In addition to the high salinity level, the • Low chemicals consumption raw water is also characterized by a high concentration • Low waste discharge of calcium, silica, hydrogen sulfide, sulfate, boron, • Low cost and high efficiency operation fluoride, barium, ammonia, and suspended solids. • High quality water - according to all required standards and specifications

As a company specialized in designing and constructing top level desalination plants, GES was contracted by Mekorot to design, construct, commission, test and hand over to Mekorot a 3 Million m³/year desalination plant utilizing the brackish water of the Ktziot wells.

GES solution design includes a pre-treatment process where the raw water undergoes a removal process of the hydrogen sulfide, a deep substrate filtration, cooling, addition of chemicals for sedimentation prevention and micro-filtration. This pre-treatment stage prepares the water for the desalination process, done by reverse osmosis technology with recovery rate of 88%. The water produced by the RO stage undergoes two additional treatment phases; boron removal and stabilization. The product water has an overall salinity of less than 350 mg/l, and conforms to the health and the stability requirements of the drinking water supply standards.

The construction and the commissioning of the plant took GES 18 months, the project passed to Mekorot, it is automatically operated in 24/7 regime, and it produces approximately 3 million m³/year of high quality drinking water.

8 //9 Lahat - Brackish Water Desalination Plant Total Capacity – 7,920,000 m³/year

Mekorot, the Israeli national water carrier company is GES Lahat project highlights: responsible, among other tasks, to supply high quality Commercial: potable water to the southern region of Israel. Due to • Client - Mekorot, the Israeli national water the geography of the country this region lacks sufficient carrier company local water sources and therefore efforts are made to use • Type of project - two stage 44,000 m³/ day turn-key desalination plant - stage every possible local water source, including utilization of A.capacity of 22,000 m³/day brackish water wells found throughout the region. • Expansion plans - doubling the stage A capacity • Project’s value - $18 million As a leading company specialized in design, construction and operation of state of the art desalination plants, GES supplied Mekorot with a turn-key project utilizing the brackish water of Technical: the Lahat wells located in Talmei Yafe near the southern city • Pretreatment by safety and cartridge filters of Ashkelon. The project included designing, constructing, including Acid and Antiscalant injection commissioning, testing and handing over to Mekorot a 44,000 • Two stage RO with flushing and CIP m³/day desalination plant built in two stages. systems The first stage includes the design and construction of a • Post treatment of produce water by 22,000 m³/day brackish water desalination plant producing high physical and chemical pH adjustment quality potable water complying with the highest potable water and Hypochlorite disinfection standards including the Boron levels specifications. Since Lahat • Feeding and product tanks, pipes and is located inland, the GES engineering team gave special attention pumps to of environmental issues during the design phase, in particular for the energy consumption and the concentrate disposal issues. Operational: The pressure of the concentrate outlet lines is used to boost Energy recovery by boosting the second the pressure of the RO feed lines through an energy recovery stage RO feed through concentrate turbocharger, desalinated water is mixed with other wells potable pressure turbocharger water in order to reach the required standards levels and the concentrate is disposed to a special regional concentrate pipeline.

GES is specialized in low power consumption designs. This is done by: designing according to the hydraulic profile and the natural land grade of the site with larger low velocity pipes, by utilizing energy recovery technologies, usage of Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) on pumps, selection of the most efficient pumps and motors for the project, usage of advanced “low energy” proven membranes, utilizing a low-flux membrane approach and designing operation regimes for minimizing operation during peak time electricity tariffs. GES Municipal Waste

The growth of urban population around the world, together with the ever increasing shortage in safe and clean potable water, enlarges the pressure on governments and municipalities to utilize every possible water source and eliminate the hazards to public health caused by polluted water and untreated municipal wastewater.

GES brings its vast 30 years of experience as a solution provider, supplying full scope of engineering, construction and operation services, to the global municipal market. Utilizing advanced process technology development capabilities and knowhow, strong financial capacities and highly trained operations and management teams, GES provides its customers with full scope of services related to wastewater treatment facilities – from advanced process design, through high quality construction to long term operation and maintenance in line with regulatory requirements.

GES is spearheading implementing the most advanced cutting-edge environmentally friendly wastewater treatment process technologies in support of efficient, cost effective management of large scale treatment plants, which cover all aspects of the wastewater treatment process, including; Pretreatment technologies, Biological treatment processes, Tertiary processes, Filtration, Disinfection, Sludge treatment and Sludge removal processes enabling water reuse for either irrigation or industrial purposes.

GES implements the most advanced monitoring and remote control technologies to its wastewater treatment plant designs to ensure that the plant operates in compliance with the required public health and water quality standards.

GES builds Turn-Key, BOT, BOOT or BOO new wastewater treatment plants, retrofits and enlarges existing plants, and provides Operation and Maintenance services via TK, PPP, BOT and other types of contracts.

GES wastewater treatment plants operation costs are highly competitive; this is achieved via the company’s capacity of interdisciplinary data transfer between its engineering and operations departments. This enables the operation of the water treatment plants to be based on optimal design, advanced technology and top level personnel; all contributing together to the competitive edge of GES in the market.

10 //11 The Akko Waste Water Treatment Plant - WWTP Current Capacity – 6,768,000 m³/year Planned Capacity – 14,000,000 m³/year

The Acre waste water treatment plant, located at the Acre project highlights: Western Galilee region near the famous old city of Commercial: Acre, serves as a regional hub collecting and treating • Client - Four Western Galilee municipalities the sewage of wide area populated by towns, villages and regional councils and industrial zones. In order to allow continuation • Capacity - Expanding the 18,800 of population growth in the area, four of the Western m³/day plant to 14,0 00,000 m³/day Galilee municipalities and regional councils joined • Type of project - 25 years BOT project together and commissioned a 25 years BOT project for enlarging and updating the existing Acre’s waste water Technical: treatment plant and turning it to one of the largest • Main technology - Activated sludge technology, lowering BOD, COD, wastewater treatment plants in Israel. TSS, Nitrogen and Phosphorus levels followed by tertiary treatment of filtration and disinfection (UV method) GES, as a top level water and waste water solution provider, • Pretreatment of the raw wastewater by capable of providing full scope of engineering and operation fine screening and grit removal services for treatment plants, acquired the project and started the • Primary sedimentation stage for organic process of doubling the pant and its operational units, so during and solids levels reduction 2013 it will support flows of up to 14,000,000 m³/day, equivalent to • Biological treatment with anaerobic zone, 200,000 people. anoxic zone, and aeration tanks and In the Acre project GES utilizes its vast experience in designing, mixed liquor recirculation for organic, constructing and operating large scale waste water treatment P and N removal plants. A great advantage of GES, as a designer and operator • Secondary sedimentation stage for of the project, is its capacity of interdisciplinary data transfer separating the sludge from the treated between the engineering and the operations departments. wastewater This enables the company to provide optimal design based • Surface filtration stage by disc filters – on real field data that takes the operational requirements into Low OPEX consideration. • UV bacteria and microorganisms disinfection – Low OPEX • Sludge treatment by sludge thickening and dewatering, anaerobic digester and sludge dewatering for stabilizing the class B sludge and reducing its amount to be disposed

Operational: GES team of 7 highly trained and qualified professionals including lab services and process aid The City of Waste Water Treatment Plant Current Capacity – 14,400,000 m³/year tertiary treatment

Herzliya is a city of 87,000 residents located just Herzliya project highlights: north of the Tel-Aviv metropolis. Due to the city’s Commercial: population growth rate and the updated Ministry of • Client - Herzliya municipal water Environmental Protection regulation the city decided in company 2006 to upgrade, modernize and increase the capacity • Type of project - waste water treatment of its waste water treatment plant to 40,000 m³/day for plant upgrading supporting a population of up to 125,000 residents. The • Project’s value - $10 million old plant, built during the 70th, suffered from frequent • Project duration - 8 months from operational difficulties that annoyed the residents, had commencement of the project no tertiary treatment stage and could not supply water in unlimited irrigation quality. Technical: • Main task – Upgrading a 20,000 m³/day secondary level of 20/30 BOD,TSS plant GES, as a leading water and waste water solution provider, to modern 40,000 m³/day plant with capable of providing full scope of engineering and construction tertiary treatment services, won the project and started the process of designing, constructing and upgrading the Herzliya plant. New aeration • Produce complying with the top Israeli basins were built, the preliminary and secondary sedimentation standards for WWTP water quality systems and the sludge treatment facility enlarged, two biological • Improved sludge treatment reactors and a tertiary treatment stage (gravitational filtration) • Significant reduction of odor problems added and the plat started to produce unlimited irrigation quality effluent. In the Herzliya project GES utilizes its vast experience in designing and constructing large scale waste water treatment plants. A great advantage of GES is its capacity of conduct the upgrading process without disrupting the constant operation of the plant while maintaining tight schedule of 8 months from commencement till handing the project over to the client.

12 //13 Tal Shahar Waste Water Treatment Plant

Tal Shahar wastewater treatment plant serves 3 of the Tal Shahar project highlights: Mate-Yehuda regional council settlements and is located Commercial: at the Emmek Ayalon valley near . Due to • Client - Mate-Yehuda regional council its high rate of population growth the regional council • Type of project - Turn key project commissioned the construction of a turn-key project for secondary treatment waste water plant with BOD and • Project’s value - $1.3 Million TSS removal processes. Technical: • Main task – 250,000 m³/year secondary GES, as well known water and waste water solution providers wastewater treatment plant for BOD, in the country, capable of providing full scope of engineering, • COD TSS, Nitrogen and Phosphorus construction and operation services, won the project and started removal the process of designing, constructing and test-running the Tal • Produce complying with the top Israeli Shahar plant. standards for WWTP water quality GES selected an activated sludge technology (including removal • Operated by trained and qualified GES of BOD, COD TSS, Nitrogen and Phosphorus) for the Tal-Shahar process engineer and technician project and designed a unique Compact Bio-cycle facility for Biological treatment with anaerobic zone, anoxic zone and aeration tanks for organic, P and N removal. A secondary sedimentation stage for separating the sludge from the treated wastewater was also constructed in the plant that now is capable of treating a capacity of 250,000 m³/year. GES Industrial Water and Wastewater Treatment

The international industrial sector has wide range of unique water treatment requirements, beginning with pre-treatment of water used during the industrial process itself, continuing with treatment of water used in auxiliary and support systems of the industrial process and ending in recycling and treating water and wastewater prior to release to the environment or reuse within the plant. Furthermore, some industrial water contains hazardous waste that according to governmental regulation must be treated for eliminating negative effects on public health and the environment.

GES Industrial Business Unit specializes in providing full scope of process engineering and construction services, in compliance with water and wastewater treatment requirements of the industrial market globally; this includes industrial sectors such as power plants, chemical and petrochemical, food and beverage, cosmetics &drugs and biotechnology manufacture, institution & hospitals, local authorities and national companies supplying water and electricity, etc. Utilizing its advanced process technology development capabilities, 30 years of experience and proven track record and strong financial capacities, GES provides its customers with the most advanced environmentally friendly water purification, recycling and wastewater treatment technologies in support of reliable, efficient and cost effective industrial process. GES builds newly constructed Turn-Key water and wastewater treatment facilities for industrial plants as well as retrofits and upgrades existing water and waste water treatment facilities for industrial plants.

GES has substantial expertise in providing advanced water and wastewater treatment solutions for the power plant industry, including full redundancy, low cost, “near to” zero liquid discharge (ZLD) systems for recovering process water and wastewater streams in power stations, producing ultra pure water while achieving high recovery ratio and maximum reuse of water in the plant. As part of its sophisticated solutions GES incorporates in its designs an electricity generation process and its own development of fully integrated compact modular water and wastewater treatment systems, which enables continues operation of the power plant, under all operation modes and at all conditions.

GES systems comply with the latest standards, which require high efficiency water reuse and production of high quality recycled or reclaimed effluent with efficient sludge disposal.

Customers list: GES Industrial Water and Wastewater Treatment business unit serves a long list of customers across the globe that among others includes: Coca Cola, Intel, Holliday Inn, Hogla Kimberly, Israel Water Authority Mekorot, RC Cola, Elite, , Tnuva, Neviot, IEC, Vishey, Unilever, Kitan, OPC Rotem, Paz and Hadasa Hospital.

14 //15 OPC Rotem Industrial Waste Water Treatment Plant

OPC ROTEM is a 427 Mw Combine Cycle Power Plant OPC Rotem project highlights: Station, located in the southern part of Israel, far away Commercial: from any surface water source or wastewater treatment • Client - POSCO Engineering & plant. Due to these desert harsh conditions, reuse of Construction Co., Ltd as much as possible process water and wastewater • Type of project - Designing and is needed. GES was requested to design and supply a constructing of an industrial waste water low cost “near to” zero liquid discharge (ZLD) power treatment plant plant approach for recovering the plant’s process water • Project’s value - $2.5 million, cost- and wastewater streams while meeting the following effective tailor made solution designed requirements: to customer’s specification • Production of ultra pure water according to power station • Project duration - 8 months from standards. commencement of the project • Achieving high recovery ratio and maximum reuse of water in the plant. Technical: • Complying with the latest Israeli standards (MOH&MOE), which • Desalination plant with high recovery ratio equire high efficiency water reuse and production of high quality effluent for irrigation. • Automatic and easy to operate system designed for unattended operation • Full redundancy design for both water treatment plant and wastewater treatment plant with maximum reuse of the industrial stream discharged to the desalination plant and minimum sludge disposal. • The sanitary effluent stream should meet the effluent irrigation standards. • The solution applied was based on an electricity generation process and separation of the wastewater streams. • The design and integration of new and advance technologies enabled GES to construct compact modular water and wastewater treatment systems that are integrated one with the other. This conceptual approach facilitated continues management of the power plant, under all operation moods and at all ambient conditions, without interfering with the power generation. • As a highly capable industrial water and wastewater solution provider, capable of providing full scope of engineering and construction services, GES provided the client with a water treatment plant that is based on a double pass reverse osmosis (RO) with continues-mode electro deionization (CEDI) polishing units. This plant operates at >94% recovery and is capable of treating a maximum capacity of 480,000 m³/year with conductivity below 0.1 µS/cm. The waste water treatment plant includes bioreactors, aerobic digester, oil separators and dissolved air flotation. IEC Gezer Industrial Waste Water Treatment Plant - ZLD

IEC Gezer is a 1.2GW Combine Cycle Power Plant IEC Gezer project highlights: owned by the Israel Electrical Company, located on the Commercial: western slopes of the Judean Hills, midway between • Client - Israel Electrical Company GEZER Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. The power plant was built next to CCPP Station a large municipal waste water treatment plant to enable • Type of project - BOO Project including utilization of the WTP effluent as the makeup water for to design, construction, operation and maintenance of cooling tower blow-down the power plant cooling towers. RO desalination plant • Project duration - 5 years since 2007 The cooling towers work with COD ranging between 7-10 and 130 m³/hr blow-down water containing high conductivity of up to 10,000 µS/cm, high TSS and high COD loads. Furthermore, the Technical: power plant is located inland, in distance from the ocean and the • Desalination plant with high recovery makeup water/effluent source is varying according to the season ratio due to agriculture effluent usage. According to the Israeli Ministry • Automatic and easy to operate system of Environmental Protection regulations the cooling tower blow- designed for unattended operation down water must be discharged to an authorized plant. Therefore GES was requested, via 5 years BOO project structure, to design, • Cost-effective tailor-made solution designed according to high customer’s supply, operate and maintain a low cost Zero Liquid Discharge specification. (ZLD) plant for recycling maximum of the blow-down water where the permeate is sent back to the cooling tower and the brine is • Automatic and easy to operate system designed for unattended operation evacuated from the power plant.

Based on its high engineering capacities and vast experience in similar projects as an industrial water and wastewater solution provider, GES assessed this BOO project and came with a solution based on a 500,000- 600,000 m³/year membrane near to zero liquid discharge (ZLD) desalination process. The plant is based on a series of chemical and physical processes preparing the blow-down water for a single pass membrane RO treatment which produces water to be discharged back to the cooling tower make- up water system.

The process includes advance scaling elements removal fallowed by coagulant dosing and Multi-media sand filtration. The filtered water enters the RO system after a micron filtration.

Low conductivity RO permeate, up to 150µS/cm, flows back to the client’s cooling towers, improving the make-up water quality. The recovery rate of the desalination plant is 93%. Continues monitoring, data acquisition and control of the row and the product water TSS, tCOD, DOC, hardness, silica, alkalinity, conductivity, turbidity and chlorine levels ensure efficiency and process stability.

16 //17 PAZ Industrial Desalination Plant

PAZ Ashdod Refinery Ltd is a major player in the Israeli PAZ project highlights: oil industry. Recently PAZ has decided to build Its second Commercial: CO-GEN power system. This CO-GEN 2 is a dual-fuel • Client - PAZ Ashdod Refinery Ltd fired 60MW Gas Turbine Generator connected to an • Type of project - Turn key project Energy Recovery . The co-generation designing and constructing an plant consumes treated, de-mineralized, water at its main industrial desalination plant gas turbine, which is equipped with a water-injection system for boosting the power generation and lowering Technical: the NOx emission of the plant. • Cost effective, tailor made solution • Desalination plant with high recovery ratio GES, as a leading water treatment solution provider, was • Automatic and easy to operate system requested to design and supply, under a turn-key project contract, designed for unattended operation a water treatment plant based on double pass desalination units and continuous electro-deionization (CEDI) polishing units. This 190,000 m³/year Reverse Osmosis desalination plant produces Ultra Pure Water with conductivity lower than 0.1 µS/cm and Silica below 0.05 ppm.

The solution designed by GES engineers met the customer’s requirements of using two water sources, municipal and well, and producing the ultra pure water according to the power plant specifications, while maintaining high recovery ratio and maximum reuse of water.

GES as the project’s designer, plant manufacturer and constructor supervisor, provided solution consists of the following technologies:

• Pretreatment process based on Multi-media sand filtration

• Chemicals dosing system for scaling prevention

• Micron filtration

• RO system

• CEDI - continuous electro-deionization polishing units

• The desalination plant is designed for higher than 85% recovery ration and is controlled by an integrated PLC control system GES Operation & Maintenance

With its vast 30 years of experience in the water desalination, purification, treatment and wastewater treatment markets, GES as a solution provider supplies full scope of engineering and construction services to its customers globally. GES also enhances the added value provided to its customers by providing them with operation and maintenance services.

GES Operation & Maintenance services are provided via TK, PPP, BOT and other contract types to new, retrofitted, enlarged and existing plants in the desalination, water purification and the wastewater treatment markets.

GES plant operations and maintenance services are based on GES experience in operating large scale plants and on its built-in synergy between Engineering and Operation together with the rapid and efficient interdisciplinary data transfer between the company’s departments. These enable the company to provide highly competitive costs, efficient operation and best technical and commercial results.

Several factors support the competitive edge of the company:

• Skilled and experienced central managerial layer, providing efficient and cost effective services to all projects. • Long term, highly trained, on-site teams and experts; specializing in the unique operational requirements of each specific project, carrying out electromechanical operations, maintaining work logs, taking laboratory samples, inspecting the plan processes by means of analytic meters, and communicating with the customer and the subcontractors. • Usage of the most advanced state of the art technologies, including the best telemetric supervisory, control and data acquisition systems; reducing the operation costs and increasing productivity and water quality. • Professional laboratories support, close monitoring of chemical, biological and physical plant processes. • In house R&D department; capable of conduction on-site experiments and testing of new technologies.

18 //19 DAN-VIRO Sludge Treatment Plant

SHAFDAN is the largest waste water treatment plant DAN-VIRO project highlights: in Israel. It serves the 17 municipalities of the Tel-Aviv Commercial: metropolis with capacity of about 330,000 m³/day. • Client - SHAFDAN is the largest waste SHAFDAN will produce about 1250, Ton/Day of dried water treatment plant in Israel secondary sludge at 18% solids, as a byproduct of the • Type of project - Demonstrating BOT waste water treatment process. project of the pioneering N-VIRO advanced sludge treatment technology • Project’s value – $5 Million

According to the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection • Compact plant design meeting the regulations, the sludge must to be treated at the WWTP to Class customer’s requirements for a space - saving facility A regulations and only then be transferred out of the SHAFDAN plant.

As a result of these requirements the SHAFDAN management Project duration: was looking for “green” and cost effective alternative methods of • Construction - 18 months from sludge processing. commencement of the project • Operation & maintenance - 3-5 years As a leading partner in the DAN-VIRO consortium, and as a well contract experienced water and waste water solution provider, capable of providing full scope of engineering and construction services, GES obtained a contract with SHAFDAN for demonstrating Technical: N-VIRO advanced sludge treatment technology on 15% of the • State of the art advanced sludge total amount of the SHEFDAN’s secondary sludge solids. treatment technology

At this BOT project GES incorporated knowledge obtained from • Simple process N-VIRO USA to the design, construction and the operation of • Automatic and easy to operate this project unique system producing Alkaline Stability Class A • Cost-effective, tailor-made solution Sludge. designed according to customer specifications Gush Etzion Waste Water Treatment Plant

Gush Etzion waste water treatment plant treats the Gush Etzion project highlights: Gush Etzion regional council municipal sewage to tertiary Commercial: quality in annual capacity of 900,000 m³ serving a • Client - the Gush Etzion regional council population of 12,000 people. • Type of project - Turn-key construction GES completed the construction of the plant in 2007 as a turn-key project followed by an operation and project. Since the commissioning of the project GES operates it maintenance contract under a 15 years operation & maintenance contract.

The treatment processes taking place in the Gush Etzion plant Project duration: are: • Construction - 8 months from Pre-treatment process - consists of a flow regulation equalization commencement of the project basin, coarse 25 mm mechanical scraper, grit removal chamber • Operation & maintenance - 15 years and second screening stage by a fine 6 mm mechanical scraper. contract The main process pumps discharge the liquid through a selector chamber to the biological treatment process. Technical: Biological treatment process – consists of continuous biological activated sludge reactor, from which the treated sewage flows • Automatic, remotely monitored and easy to operate plant to a secondary clarifier-settler tank that contains a skimmer for removing floating particles and dumping them to a dry waste • Above ground tertiary treatment facility container. The treated water, after passing a gravitational sedimentation and separation basin, flows to the tertiary treatment process. The tertiary process filters the secondary effluent by pressurized granular filtration vessels, disinfects and chlorinates the filtered water and passes it to agricultural use through a regional recycling plant. Sludge treatment process – the sludge, collected at the bottom of the clarifier-settler tank, flows through an aerobic digest process to be thickened in a belt filter press machine producing 20% dry sludge and then to further treatment in a compost production plant. GES Operation and Maintenance department operates the plant under a 15 years contract, remotely controls the biological processes and provides maintenance of the electromechanical equipment. GES highly skilled personnel, backed up with the company’s vast local and international experience in operating and maintaining water and wastewater plants, carry out electromechanical operations, treats and removes accumulated sludge, maintains a log of the work, takes laboratory samples, inspects the process by means of analytic meters, and maintains on-going reporting and communication with the customer and the subcontractors.

20 //21 Kibbutz Eilon Waste Water Treatment Plant

Kibbutz Eilon is a collective community in Israel’s Upper Eilon project highlights: Galilee, east of the Mediterranean coast. The Kibbutz Commercial: owns an agricultural farm and an industrial food • Client - Kibbutz Eilon processing plant. • Type of project - Design, construction, operation and maintenance of a The domestic wastewater of the Kibbutz, together with the wastewater treatment plant wastewater of the dairy farm and the food processing factory flows into a local reservoir in a flow rate of 540 m³/day at 1500 mg/l BOD. • Project’s value - Cost-effective, tailor- In order to reclaim this water for agricultural irrigation the Kibbutz made $1.5 Million solution designed to customer specifications requested GES to design, install and operate advanced waste water treatment plant meeting the kibbutz requirements and the Israeli • Real-estate efficiency -space saving standards of effluent irrigation water. facility that conserves land Being a well known water and waste water solution provider, capable of providing full scope of engineering and construction services, Project duration: GES provided the Kibbutz with a pioneering solution based on an • Construction - 8 months from advanced Membrane Biological Reactor MBR technology, which is commencement of the project capable of handling heavy pollutant loads and turning the treated • Operation & maintenance - 10 years waste water to effluent water. contract After 8 months from the project’s commencement the plant started to produce high quality and stable treated effluent with low turbidity Technical: and low contamination levels. The plant creates less excess sludge than conventional systems, and reduces disease generating • Pioneering advanced Membrane Biological Reactor (MBR) technology microorganisms, like Cryptosporidium and Giardia. for 180,000 m³/year capacity GES Operation and Maintenance department operates the plant • High quality, stable treated effluent flow under a 10 years contract, remotely controls the biological processes with low turbidity and low contamination and provides maintenance of the electromechanical equipment. GES level highly skilled personnel, backed up with the company’s vast local • Less excess sludge than conventional and international experience in operating and maintaining water and systems wastewater plants, carry out electromechanical operations, maintain a log of the work, take laboratory samples, inspect the process by • Automatic and easy to operate means of analytic meters, and communicate with the customer and the subcontractors. 22 //23 GES Shareholders:

The Azrieli Group has a controlling interest (60.8%) in Granite HaCarmel, a holding company which its main subsidiaries include a network of gas stations (Sonol); trade, marketing and distribution of refined oil (Supergas); manufacturing and distribution of building finishing products including paint, plaster products and complementarity products (Tambour); and water desalination, wastewater purification and sludge treatment facilities (GES). Azrieli Group is one of Israel’s leading Azrieli Group holds 20% of credit card company Leumi Card and has real estate groups who owns and 4.8% holdings in Le-Israel Ltd. operates Israel foremost nationwide chain of income-producing Mr. , the renowned entrepreneur, architect and businessman together with his family hold 73% of the group shares. properties. The Azrieli Group owns Mr. Menachem Einan, active deputy chairman, has served the Group total leasable area of offices and for over 19 years and was the company CEO until last March. Danna shopping malls of 680,000 square Azrieli is the vice chairman of the Azrieli Group and Mr. Shlomo Sherf meters, as well as additional 330,000 serves as the Group’s CEO since April 2011. square meters of leasable area under On June 2010, the Azrieli Group conducted the most significant IPO construction. The company wholly in the history of the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange, rising unprecedented owns thirteen (13) of Israel’s (mostly sum of approx. NIS 2.5 billion. The Group is listed in the Tel-Aviv class A) shopping malls and wholly 25 index, covering the twenty five largest companies on the stock exchange in Israel, and is the only Israeli Company included in the own the biggest business complex in EPRA indices. The Azrieli Group is the biggest Real Estate Company Israel – the in Tel-Aviv. operating in Israel in terms of market cap and equity, who market value (10/2011) was approximately $2.9 billion.

The company’s main holdings include Sonol, Supergas, Tambour and GES, all of which are leading brands, veteran companies in the Israeli economy and market leaders in their fields with 20% - 60% market share.

Through its holdings Granite HaCarmel is engaged in the following: gasoline retail and connivance store network ownership and operation, trade, marketing and distribution of LPG; design, build and operation of water and wastewater treatment facilities and manufacturing and distribution of building finishing products, Granite HaCarmel is an industrial including paint, plaster products and complementary products. holding company, which is traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Granite HaCarmel is majority owned (61%) by the Azrieli Group which is owned by Mr. David Azrieli and his family. Additional shares are (in the Tel-Aviv 100 Index), held Yeshayahu Landau (14%) and the public (35%). The market operating in the energy, water and value of Granite HaCarmel (Q4 2011) is 950 million NIS with annual construction materials sector. gross sales of 6 billion NIS and assets at book value of 5 billion NIS. www.ges.co.il

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