An Israeli chemical manufacturer has finalized the sale of its 50% stake in global water desalination pioneer IDE Technologies Ltd., also based in Israel, to a domestic investor group for $177.5 million. It includes firm CEO Avshalom Felber and an Israeli teachers' pension fund and is set to close later this year.

以色列金融行业消息人士称，这笔交易结束了。

Several years earlier, Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa reportedly was also in talks to buy IDE for as much as $800 million. The sources said that the drop in IDE's value is largely the result of a decline in projects in the domestic desalination market as well as abroad.

以色列企业集团Delek Group仍然拥有剩余的50％的人，据说它以更高的价格和在淡化市场中的回收率保持了更高的价格。据说Delek和化学公司将重返核心资产所有权。

IDE本身拥有以色列的三个最大的海要生产厂，位于Ashkelon，Hadera和Soreq的地中海海岸，每年共生产超过4.5亿立方米。The firm has provided technology, equipment and operations and maintenance.

在以色列几乎没有新的工作，该公司近年来一直集中精力，并在中国，印度，智利和澳大利亚建造了工厂。

In 2013 IDE won the tender to build the largest desalination plant in North America at Carlsbad, Calif. It opened last year.

IDE在5月说，它已经完成了加利福尼亚州圣塔芭芭拉的一家工厂的重新激活。该工厂将满足需求的30％。该市选择了IDE来设计，构建和运营它。

Joshua Haggmark, Santa Barbara's water resources manager, said the facility's design "includes high-efficiency pumps and motors that reduce the plant's overall electrical demands by 40% compared to the last plant. Restarting this plant puts the city in a position to better manage water shortages through a more diversified supply mix." That includes local surface water, state water, groundwater, recycled water, water conservation and now desalinated water, he said.

Despite plans for other plants in California and Mexico, including what is set to be西半球最大的a recent report by GMR Data forecast that the five-year growth for the desalination industry would fall below 5% for the first time in 20 years due to financial uncertainty in several Middle East countries.

此外，报告预测，从2021年到2026年，许多全球地区将摆脱全新的项目，而是专注于现有网站的新技术。18luck官网

IDE has branched out into water treatment. In March 2016 the firm and its Indian partner VA Tech Wabag Ltd won a $100-million contract in Chennai for construction, maintenance and operation of a tertiary water-treatment plant.

The project will use ultra-filtration and reverse osmosis technology to treat wastewater and then pipe it to industrial plants dozens of kilometers away.