Hyflux is licensing a water filtration system developed at South Australia University.
Hyflux, a Singapore-based water services company, has licensed a water filtration system from Itek, South Australia University’s technology transfer company. Hyflux will develop the technology through an unnamed wholly-owned subsidiary.
The so-called hydrophilic filtration technology is based on a proprietary polymer coating, which can turn a standard mesh made out of plastic or stainless steel into a water filter. The coating process is scalable and the filtration process occurs even at low water pressure. The polymer catches oil compounds and…