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Water Technology

The Netherlands brims over with water activities. Not only does it utilize high value, state of the art water treatment technology to obtain its drinking water and/or to purify it's sewage waste water, it is also key in the development and growth of the local industrial sectors such as food & beverage-, paper- and chemical industry.

The Dutch are recognized to be amongst the best in the global market with thier knowledge, products and expertise. To keep this head start, innovation has become a second nature to The Netherlands and as a result a continuous flow of new innovative concepts are being introduced to the global market.

The Netherlands, breeding ground for innovative and sustainable water technology, serves as the gateway to the large European market due to it's geographical position (port of Rotterdam and Schiphol Airport) and its favorable tax and investment climate.

The Northern Netherlands

World class companies
Holland’s world class companies operating in the global sector of (waste) water treatment are based in the Northern Netherlands. Paques (waste water treatment); Spaans Babcock (waste water treatment); Landustrie (water treatment); Norit (activated carbon).

WETSUS
Holland’s Top Technological Institute and centre of excellence for Sustainable Water Technology (WETSUS) is located in the Northern Netherlands and accelerates regional competence in developing cutting edge technologies. WETSUS is a facilitating intermediairy for trendsetting know-how development. WETSUS creates an unique environment and strategic cooperation for the development of profitable and sustainable state of the art water treatment technology. The inspiring and multdisciplinary collaboration between companies and research institutes in WETSUS results in innovations that contribute significantly to the solution of the global water problems. WETSUS continuously generates a growing number of highly educated PhD’s and is well on its way to become Europe’s centre for sustainable water technology.

Incentives
The total amount of available funds for water technology in this region exceeds 300 million euro for the next 8 years. This on top of the regional generic funds for starters and new-business-settlers.

Incubators
The region offers the largest concentration of demonstration sites for innovative water technology in Europe. A dedicated incubator site is located in the heart of this “water cluster” and offers Start-up companies, SMEs and even specialized departments of multinationals a unique chance to utilize the cluster to their economical benefit.

Knowledge centres
WETSUS, Centre of Expertise Watertechnology, Van Hall Institute and Technology Centre for Northern Netherlands.

Contact
For more information, please contact Reinder de Jong: dejong@nom.nl or +31 (0)6 25 54 72 73.