DGAP-News: ItN Nanovation AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous ItN Nanovation announces new Cer@Sorp process for improved radium removal from contaminated drinking water 10.06.2014 / 10:29 --------------------------------------------------------------------- - The new chemical Cer@Sorp process removes up to 98% of radium from drinking water in combination with ItN's ceramic flat sheets - Conventional techniques reach a removal rate of 80% max, requiring high doses of chemicals with corresponding operating costs - Cer@Sorp gives ItN a decisive competitive advantage, leading to new technical applications previously not viable Saarbruecken, 10 June 2014. ItN Nanovation AG (ISIN: DE000A0JL461) has developed and successfully tested a new, improved process for removing radium from contaminated drinking water. This new technology called Cer@Sorp significantly surpasses conventional techniques, providing ItN with a decisive competitive advantage. Groundwater and deep-well water contaminated with radium is mainly a problem in Middle-east countries, where water is a scarce and precious resource. The new development is based on the conventional solution for sand filters and polymer membranes. In addition, it uses the possibilities and process advantages of ItN's flat sheet membranes. Thanks to the combination of chemical pre-treatment and targeted cake-layer filtration, which is only possible with ItN's ceramic flat sheet membranes, the radium removal rates were successfully raised to up to 98%. These are results previously only achieved by very expensive filtration processes with reverse osmosis. Sand filters and polymer membranes do not allow a targeted growth of cake layer during filtration. In the previously applied conventional process chemicals had to be dosed via inefficient dosing systems, making high demands on the construction side and requiring high overdosing of chemicals in order to achieve radium removal rates of 80%. The new combination of chemical process and ceramic flat membranes does not only offer cost advantages to the operators of waterworks with regard to construction and operation of the plant, it increases water quality to such an extent that may make costly and complex post-treatment - such as reverse osmosis - redundant. Cer@Sorp enables the use of wells, whose water quality until now did not permit their use as sources of drinking water. For ItN Nanovation AG this new development is a further important step ahead in further increasing the performance of its core product, the ceramic flat sheet membrane. ItN Nanovation AG The Board of Management End of Corporate News --------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.06.2014 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. DGAP's Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: ItN Nanovation AG Untertürkheimer Straße 25 66117 Saarbrücken Germany Phone: +49 (0) 681 / 50 01 - 460 Fax: +49 (0) 681 / 50 01 - 499 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.itn-nanovation.com ISIN: DE000A0JL461 WKN: A0JL46 Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (General Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, München End of News DGAP News-Service --------------------------------------------------------------------- 272616 10.06.2014