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Consulting

We make our water expertise available through our consulting services. Together with our partners from academia and industry we provide support during all project stages.

FEATURES:

Project development
Financing strategies
Energy saving
Feasibility studies
Environmental studies
Field tests
Technical assistance and price evaluation for tender documents
Engineering & planning
Supervision
Plant/process evaluation
Identification of resource/energy saving and water reuse potential
Water management systems
Pilot plants

Operation and maintenance

On special request UNIHA Water Technology GmbH operates and maintains water treatment plants built by us or by others, to enable the client to optimize the production costs associated with water treatment, to ensure effective asset management, and to comply with the health safety, environment and quality standards.

Chemicals & Spare Parts

UNIHA supplies chemicals and spare parts to support the operation and maintenance of all types of water treatment plant.

We offer a unique line of specialty chemicals for membrane pre-treatment applications, and specific blends for the maintenance, preservation and cleaning of membrane systems. The result is a unique chemical product line that maximizes the operating efficiency, economy, and longevity of membrane systems, pushing the limits of solubility and recovery.

FEATURES:

Coagulants
Flocculants
Oxidants
Antiscalants
Cleaning chemicals, biocides
Disinfection products
Electro-mechanical spare parts

Turn-key projects

UNIHA offers turnkey solutions for tailor-made plants. We are complete water treatment experts with a thorough understanding of every step, from system design to implementation. Our expertise and our access to the best technology enable us to solve quickly the most complex problems.

UNIHA boasts a network of partnerships with the construction industry. Our engineers’ knowledge of your requirements, combined with our expertise in all aspects of water treatment, helps us identify suitable partners and handle the entire process. Regardless of the nature of your needs, our commitment and know-how enables us to work in collaboration with major partners; we would be pleased to discuss the details of your project with you.

FEATURES:

Feasibility studies
Financing
Design
Component selection and manufacturing
Installation
Startup
Training
Operation and maintenance programme
Quality control

Creative Financing Tools to Fund Water Infrastructure

A major restraint on the provision of access to safe drinking water and delivering projects is lack of funding. UNIHA has played a key role in developing a comprehensive and inclusive financing capability that has resulted in the delivery of many projects. Our international reputation enables us to access a wide range of financiers including commercial banks, export credit agencies, development banks and bilateral institutions. One main objective is to provide support to clients for obtaining the funds needed for the proposed water infrastructure investments. Water utility administrators are required to carefully examine the financial alternatives available to them and balance their advantages and disadvantages against the needs and priorities of their systems.

We can provide much more than merely financing; we also supply design, consulting, erection and O + M. This allows us to offer services that are tailored to the needs of the location and the customer.

UNIHA supplies and makes offers baked by various funding bodies such as the European Union (EuropeAid), KFW Development Bank, ÖKB (Austrian Control Bank), MCA/MCC (Millenium Challenge Cooperation – USA) etc.

Some of our key reference contracts are:

Sri Lanka
Ghana
Cabo Verde
Morava Serbia

Government Credits

Governments provide official financing in support of national exporters through their Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), and they therefore tend to be limited to the financing of equipment. The credits made available to foreign buyers are either sourced directly from the ECA concerned, or indirectly from commercial banks backed by guarantees provided by the agency. The ECAs themselves are strictly governed by international agreements. The advantage of ECA financing is that it is relatively cheap and accessible.

Commercial Lending

Commercial lending generally takes the form of loans from private commercial banks or publicly owned international financing institutions. The most common form of commercial borrowing for projects is through international bank loans, which are normally syndicated amongst a number of participating banks.

Public-Private Partnerships

Public-Private Partnerships involve the sharing of risks and responsibilities between the two sectors. It is important to emphasise that the term does not imply any specific financing model, and the actual arrangements have to be developed on a project-by-project basis.

Credit Enhancement Facilities

1. Partial Credit Guarantees, which provide cover against all risks for a specified portion of the commercial debt, so that repayments in respect of that portion are assured whatever the cause. These guarantees have been used to encourage extensions of maturity by covering the debt service obligations in the period of the extension beyond what is normally attainable in the market.

2. Partial or Political Risk Guarantees, which cover debt service defaults on loans to private sector projects arising as a result of the failure of the government (or any State entity) to honour its obligations under the project agreements. These guarantees usually cover direct sovereign risks such as expropriation, changes in law, war and civil strife.

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