Posts Categorized: Water News

Supraflow equipment up to 1 bar

Grupo Torre has developed a new Supraflow equipment. This equipment is intended for operations in networks under 1 bar pressure. It’s more handy and lighter than the regular equipment, designed for operations up to 10 bar, but offering the same ease of use and low effort drilling. It is consequent to customer’s needs, and this… Read more »

Reach & RoHS environmental compliance legislation

Grupo Torre is constantly looking for the best solutions for its clients. Its products and services are designed to take care of human health and to produce the lowest possible impact on environment. Grupo Torre complies with RoHS & Reach environmental standards, a European Union regulation, conceived for the same purpose. REACH aims to reduce… Read more »

Carrefour and Pollutec 2016

Grupo Torre has been present in the “Carrefour des gestions locales de l’eau” in Rennes (France) in January and also in Pollutec 2016 in Algiers (Algeria) early February. In both events has presented its range of products for water. Professional trade visitors have shown keen interest in it.

Water stress by 2040

Following World Resources Institute (WRI) recent studies, world water demand will increase steadily in forthcoming decades. Considering climate models and different socioeconomic scenarios they establish that 33 countries out of the 167 that have been studied, will suffer from a high water stress in 2040. Population’s growth generates higher consumption from humans, cattle industry and… Read more »

Análisis de la demanda mundial del agua

Following a report by Intl Moneywath, world clean water supply is approaching a stormy situation. Some 768 million people around the world have no access to clean drinking water and by 2030, the report says, the available amount of water shall be exceeded by demand. In this scenario fighting against water losses in distribution grids… Read more »

BECETEL Symposium 2014

Last November, BECETEL (Belgian Research Center for pipes and fittings) held its annual Symposium with international participation. Grupo Torre was present showing their products in Georg Fischer both, and presented the paper “Solutions for under pressure operations in water and gas grids”. This presentation got a lot of interest and information was requested from within… Read more »

Smart Water Supply Networks

Smart water networks are starting to prove effective. It is estimated that they have already saved around 10,000 million euros a year worldwide. In the next 10 years, nearly 5,000 million people, two thirds of the world’s population, will be affected by problems relating to the supply of water. The root causes are demand exceeding… Read more »

H2O – Accadueo

H2O – Accadueo is the International Exhibition of technologies for the treatment and distribution of drinking water and wastewater treatment. This year, the conference was held from May 23rd to 25th in Ferrara (Italy). It is a “must attend” event due to both the importance of the topics addressed as well as the economic and… Read more »

IWEX 2012

The United Kingdom’s largest trade show dedicated to water technologies and waste water treatment, the International Water and Effluent Exhibition (IWEX), is one of the five fairs included as part of Sustainability Live. IWEX brings together international suppliers to demonstrate their products and services with the aim of helping organizations and water supply companies face… Read more »

World Water Day

World Water Day was created within the scope of the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. On December 22nd of that same year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring that March 22nd be declared annual World Water Day. The theme this… Read more »

IWEX 2011

One more year, Grupo Torre will be present at IWEX, sharing a stand with our distributor, Sarco Stopper. Come visit our stand to find out about all the latest developments at Grupo Torre. IWEX is the most important trade fair in the UK dedicated to water and effluent treatment technology. Dates: 24/05/11 – 25/05/11 –… Read more »

EFIAQUA 2011 (Spain)

This year will be the first Edition of Efiaqua, International trade show for efficient management of water. Innovative proposals and will show sevice sector business. Efiaqua be held from 16 to 18 February 2011 at Feria Valencia.

12º Carrefour 2011

Local gestions des l’eau celebrates this year its 12th edition Carrefour de l’eau. The fair will host over 180 exhibitors, seminars, workshops and forums for all water professionals. Open its doors from 26 to 27 January 2011 in the Parc des Expositions de Rennes.

WRAS

Recently we have achieved the WRAS approval for our Golf and Giga tees. The Water Regulations Advisory Scheme (WRAS) is the UK Water Industry’s approval scheme and is a recognized standard all over the world.

International trade show for the environmental sector takes place in Munich from 13 to 17 September. Here you can visit the exhibition dedicated to innovations and developments of new products into the sectors of water, wastewater, solid waste and recycling. For more information: http://www.ifat.de

Barcelona Tech Summer Sessions

International conferences on energy, water and mobility organized by the fundación b_TEC This year will be the 5th edition of this conference, organized by Fundació b_TEC in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and the University of Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona). Different activities (seminars, courses,… Read more »

New Giga PVC-O. They can be installed on polyethylene and suspension polyvinyl chloride (PVC-O) oriented strand pipes for up to a nominal maximum pressure of 16 bar in water. Designed to for large diameter branches and  by-pass diversions. The different materials that make up the Giga tees are electrically insulated to prevent galvanic type corrosion…. Read more »

Sustainability Live 2010 · IWEX · Birmingham

This is one of the most important trade fairs in the United Kingdom dedicated to sustainable development-based projects and solutions. It consists of a series of conferences which describe the current situation in the industry and present new ideas and solutions. You’ll find Torre® products at our distributor’s stand, Sarco Stopper. Dates: 04/20/10 – 04/22/10… Read more »

World water day

On March 22nd, 1992, the United Nations created World Water Day. This year the theme is “Clean water for a healthy world”. Water is the basis of life on Earth and, for this reason; it must be clean and within everyone’s reach. Poor water quality harms the environment and people’s well-being.

New Cedec PE under pressure branch tees

Our new Cedec PE branch tees include an exclusive system to attach under pressure PE branches on polyethylene pipes (up to a maximum of 16 bar). Cedec under pressure direct coupling branch tees can be plugged in directly, an exclusive system allowing you to join the PE branch pipe directly to the saddle. It is… Read more »

IWEX, Birmingham (Great Britain)

Grupo Torre will be present at IWEX show (Birmingham 20 to 22/4/10) at his exclusive distributor Sarco Stopper stand. Do not forget to visit us to see our new products!

Carrefour de l’eau (Francia)

We participated in this international trade fair to promote our branching tees, Supraflow® and Cedec PE. For further information, visit: http://www.carrefour-eau.com/2010/co/3coupdoeil.html

New electrofusion Giga PE

We’ve launched a new product onto the market, the new Giga PE flanged tee. This new electrofusion, under-pressure collar is installed on polyethylene pipes registering a nominal pressure of up to 16  bar for water or 10 bar for gas. Our R&D&I Department has developed this product in different sizes to be able to adapt to your… Read more »