Suez Environnement subsidiary Degrémont signs a €57m contract in Malta and helps clean up the Mediterranean

Suez Environnement subsidiary Degrémont has entered into contract with its client, the Maltese Ministry of Finance, for the design and construction of the most important wastewater purification plant on the main island.

This contract, signed by the consortium formed and led by Degrémont and including two Italian civil engineering companies (CCC & CMR), undertakes the design, construction and one year of operational support for a treatment plant that, with a capacity of 500.000 population equivalents, will process 80% of Malta's wastewater, including the quantity generated by the summer tourist population.

The total value of the contract amounts to EUR 57 million, of which EUR 34,5 million will be paid to Degrémont, along with an additional EUR 0,5 million for operational support over one year. The rest of the contract's value (EUR 22 million) will go to the civil engineering companies. The future facility will be ready in 18 months for treatment of initial water and three months later for the processing of sludge.

Degrémont has become involved with the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), for which pollution control is one of its trong principals, by constructing many facilities that contribute to this objective:

• Degrémont Italy opened a wastewater treatment unit last year to serve Gozo, Malta's second island.
• In Lebanon,Degrémont is currently completing a purification plant for Tripoli's 1 million inhabitants in the north of the country.
• In Egypt, Degrémont has recently won the contract for the design and construction of a plant in East Alexandria.