Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: QS Monitor Limited, the award-winning Masdar Tech Park company focused on food and water safety, has partnered with Elgressy Engineering Services, Israel’s pioneer in electrochemical water disinfection and treatment, to deliver safer chemical-free water supply to the UAE. The partnership will bring validated and innovative water treatment and cooling solutions benefitting the UAE’s industry and society.
Established in 1987, Elgressy is a leader in chemical-free water and wastewater treatment technologies with thousands of installations across the world. “We see ecological water treatment as a responsibility and obligation and we are proud to have innovated a safe solution which utilizes advanced chemical and electrical engineering techniques as a viable and much safer alternative to chemical dosing”, said founder and owner Gaby Elgressy. “It is a great honor to partner with QS Monitor to bring our technologies to the United Arab Emirates where local water is a scarce resource and awareness is high of environmental and safety practices”
"As an award-winning food and water safety platform, QS Monitor is focused on decreasing waste in food and water throughout the supply chain, while achieving higher output and controlling water and soil contamination. Elgressy’s innovative technology for water treatment and water saving is chemical-free whilst eliminating contamination – exactly what the UAE market needs," said Burak Karapinar, Founder and Managing Director of QS Monitor Limited.
The UAE Government established the Ministry of Food and Water Security in 2017, as a part of its efforts to implement the national strategy for protecting scarce resources of food and water for the country. QS Monitor won the 2020 FoodTech Challenge Award, a global competition of innovative solutions across the food and water value chain, awarded by the UAE Food and Water Security Office and Tamkeen. The UAE government continues to strive to become a completely self-sufficient country for food and water resources and to improve awareness to use resources sustainably.
QS Monitor received funding, training and mentorship from The Catalyst, the region’s first clean technology startup accelerator, which is supported by Masdar and BP. Based in Masdar City Free Zone, The Catalyst targets eco-friendly business ideas that are one to three years away from commercialization, and accelerates them through a holistic program, covering the services and support needed to run a business.
Masdar City, Abu Dhabi’s flagship sustainable urban development, has grown to become a model of sustainable urban living and an innovation hub. It brings together an ecosystem of education, R&D, technology and business, and offers a strategic base through which companies can build their networks locally and globally, explore multiple investment opportunities and test new technologies. Today, it is home to more than 900 organizations including international companies, SMEs and home-grown start-ups, that are developing innovative technologies in the areas of energy, water efficiency, mobility, space and artificial intelligence to address the world's most critical sustainability challenges.
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