08/27/2010 - Süd-Chemie donates drinking water facility as humanitarian aid for Pakistan

Süd-Chemie AG, Munich, is donating a mobile drinking water purification facility as humanitarian aid for the flood disaster victims in Pakistan.

Based on estimates by the United Nations, 20 million people in Pakistan are affected by the disaster. About one quarter of these are still waiting for emergency aid. Up to 300,000 flood victims are cut off from the out-side world, one million houses destroyed. According to relief organisations, the greatest need, apart from food and medicine, is for clean drinking water.

Süd-Chemie has therefore decided to donate an Aquacube mobile water purification facility for the victims of the flood disaster in Pakistan. The Aquacube facility will transform up to 2,500 litres of water per hour into potable water on site. Süd-Chemie closely collaborates with the humanitarian aid organisation Navis e.V. based in Moosburg/Germany, which had already given humanitarian aid to earthquake victims in Haiti at the beginning of the year. In Sukkur, a province capital in the southeast of Pakistan, Navis will set up and operate a mobile clinic. The Aquacube donated by Süd-Chemie will provide on-the-spot drinking water to patients, physicians and technicians.

The equipment is to be flown from Süd-Chemie's site in Johannesburg, South Africa to Lahore in Pakistan, where it will arrive on Sunday. From there it will be transported, probably by helicopter, to the disaster area in Sukkur. A Süd-Chemie employee will accompany the transport to Sukkur, install the plant and instruct the local Navis aid workers in its use. The Aquacube will remain in operation until it is certain that Sukkur has other means of accessing water supplies.

Süd-Chemie already donated drinking water purification equipment as humanitarian emergency aid to earthquake victims in Haiti in January 2010 as well as following the 2005 Tsunami disaster in Indonesia, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 in the United States, the 2007 earthquake in Peru and the 2008 earthquake in China.

Munich, 27 August 2010

About Süd-Chemie

Süd-Chemie (www.sud-chemie.com) is specialty chemicals company headquartered in Munich, Germany and operating on a worldwide scale. The common denominator of all Süd-Chemie products and services is the efficient and sparing use of natural resources to enhance the quality of life for humans and the environment. Key markets served by its Adsorbents Division include the consumer goods, packaging and foundry industries, as well water treatment. Products manufactured by the Catalysts Division offer solutions for the chemical, petrochemical and refinery industries, for energy storage and hydrogen production, as well as off-gas purification. In the mid 2010, the group had more than 6,400 employees at over 80 sales and production companies worldwide. In its Water Treatment Business Unit, Süd-Chemie offers products and solutions for water treatment and water management to companies and local authorities having its main regional focus of operations in emerging economies in South Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America and in the Alpine region in Europe.