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Kurita America Announces Todd Emslander as Successor to Retiring CEO Greg Becker

Kurita America, part of the Kurita Group, a leading global provider of industrial water treatment and process technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Todd Emslander as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective April 1, 2025. This announcement aligns with the planned retirement of his predecessor, Greg Becker, a 40-year veteran of the water treatment industry who has guided the company through [...]

April 1, 2025 Read more...

Hospital Achieves Annual 350% Return with Kurita’s Cetamine® for Chilled Loop Systems

A large hospital  has a campus wide seasonal chilled loop with approximately 75,000 gallons total volume. It was being treated using a traditional silica and azole-based corrosion inhibitor package. Corrosion coupon rates with the traditional inhibitor program were considered excellent for both mild steel and copper, yet each spring during startup, iron levels were found to be five to ten parts per million [...]

March 26, 2025 By Trent Brandon, area manager Read more...

Kurita America Launches DReeM BL Plus

Kurita America, part of the Kurita Group, one of the leading global providers of industrial water treatment solutions, today announced the introduction of DReeM BL Plus. As a blend of the award-winning DReeM Polymer™ , DReeM™ BL Plus has the same unique polymer chemistry to maximize heat transfer and, should it be needed, remove scale in boilers . The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) [...]

March 18, 2025 Read more...

Kurita America Receives ISN RAVS ESG Plus Designation

Kurita America, part of the Kurita Group, a leading global provider of industrial water treatment solutions, announced it has been awarded the prestigious ISN RAVS ESG Plus® designation for excellence in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices.  Awarded by ISN, a global leader in contractor and supplier information management, the RAVS ESG Plus designation signifies that a company [...]

March 10, 2025 Read more...

The Power of Cloning RO Membrane Performance

It has become a standard industrial practice in medium and large-scale water treatment systems to operate multiple skids of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes . However, a persistent challenge confronts system operators: the potential for fouling or scaling issues. Interrupting the entire operation to address RO membrane performance issues becomes more than an inconvenience; it’s a substantial setback. In [...]

March 3, 2025 Read more...

Insulation Manufacturer Uses Monochloramine to Fight High Bacteria Counts in Process Water

Featured on Water Technology A global manufacturing company producing fiberglass insulation was constantly reusing their water . Creating fiberglass is a process involving small glass particles heated to their melting point before passing through a spinner, which creates the fibers of glass. After this process, cooling is necessary requiring a large volume of water. For this cooling process, the [...]

February 4, 2025 By Matthew Westpheling, account manager Read more...

Kurita Announces Merger with Avista Technologies, Inc.

Kurita America, part of the Kurita Group, a leading global provider of water treatment solutions, announced its pending merger with sister company, Avista Technologies, Inc. (Avista). This merger will officially take effect on April 1, 2025. Avista, headquartered in San Marcos, California, specializes in membrane treatment solutions and process support for reverse osmosis systems, microfiltration/ultrafiltration [...]

February 3, 2025 Read more...

Municipality Refurbishes Simul-Wash™ Filter System for Another 30 Years of Service

The City of LaSalle, Illinois, has worked with Tonka Water, a Kurita brand, since their filters were installed in 1992. After nearly 30 years of service, the city was assessing how to ensure a similar duration of additional life. In lieu of a full replacement, they decided to refurbish the existing filter equipment. The city’s water treatment plant had two Tonka Water horizontal pressure filters for [...]

January 8, 2025 By Nina Halverson, Alan Schneider, and Tyler Skarolid Read more...

Food Facility Saves $100,000 Annually with Kurita's Kurifloc

A large food and beverage facility in the United States was facing increased costs from hauling away a full dumpster of sludge every week. The facility’s wastewater came from their production process, and the organic materials needed to be separated before being discharged back to the city. The costs for these types of services can vary between $600 and $1,500 per trip to dispose of the sludge, but costs [...]

December 11, 2024 By Darin Wrazidlo, manager of CSV technology Read more...

Regarding Security Incident at Kurita America Incorporated

Kurita America Inc. (headquarters: Minnesota, United States (“KAI”)), a consolidated subsidiary in North America of Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (headquarters: Nakano-ku, Tokyo) found evidence of unauthorized access of certain of its servers. We deeply apologize to our customers and business partners for any concern or inconvenience this may cause. The following are details known at this stage: [...]

December 9, 2024 Read more...

Electronics Company Saves $60,000 Annually with Kurita’s Cetamine® for Closed Loops

An electronics company in the United States was facing high aluminum corrosion rates and treatment costs in their process cooling water systems due to the previous water treatment program. The previous program resulted in high conductivity and high pH, which no longer met the specifications of 50 microsiemens (µS) and a pH of 6.5 to 7.5. Low conductivity is required for process cooling water tooling [...]

November 19, 2024 By Michael Poriotis, corporate account manager Read more...

Kurita America Launches Kurita Dropwise Condensation Technology in North America

As featured in H2O Global News . Kurita America , part of the leading global provider of industrial water treatment solutions the Kurita Group, today announced the introduction of Kurita Dropwise Condensation Technology in the North American marketplace. Originally developed by parent company, Kurita Water Industries in Japan, this patent-pending Kurita Dropwise Condensation Technology is designed to [...]

October 9, 2024 Read more...