On February 28th, a ceremony was held by Sasakura Engineering and its sub-contractors in South Korea to celebrate the shipment of the world’s biggest MED evaporator unit. Mr. Byun, President of Poongsan Neotiss attended this event.

This evaporator is equipped with more than 2500 km of titanium tubes manufactured in the joint venture Poongsan Neotiss in South Korea and will be installed in SWCC Shoaiba Phase 2 MED Expansion Plant in Saudi Arabia.

NEOTISS has a long experience in supplying titanium tubes for desalination applications with almost 30 000 km of tubes produced including tubes for the last biggest desalination projects as Facility D and Ras Abou Fontas in Qatar and Ras Al Khair and Yanbu 3 in Saudi Arabia.

With 670 employees and 6 locations worldwide, NEOTISS produces thin welded tubes in titanium, stainless steel and high nickel alloys for demanding applications and critical markets.