MAGC Technologies Limited: Safe, Clean, Pure Drinking Water Solutions & Purifiers

MAGC Technologies Limited - An Overview

MAGC Technologies Limited was formed in early 2000 and is a privately and closely held corporation. MAGC's management team has been involved in the severe crises of arsenic and fluoride contamination in the drinking water supplies of India and Bangladesh since the virtual recognition of these crises. MAGC Technologies has been working with local governments, NGOs, the donor community and private sector entities to make the technology available to the widest possible area in the shortest possible time.

They recognized activated alumina to be the material of choice, not only due to its superior adsorption capability, but also because of the non-leachability feature of the spent media. This led to the formation of a cooperative relationship with Alcan Chemicals Division of Alcan Inc. in solving the problems in India and Bangladesh.

Alcan is the second largest aluminium producer in the world, with an annual turnover of over US$13 billion. Alcan provided MAGC with:

A specially developed, proprietary, commercially available, arsenic adsorbent, which is based on activated alumina and known as enhanced activated alumina AA FS-50. This enhanced activated alumina product is certified by the NSF (National Sanitation Foundation);

A product that meets the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) criteria;

An ongoing commitment to research and development;

The production capability for timely supply of mass quantities of material;

The financial resources and commitment to build new production facilities as and when needed.

Alcan Chemical's
Activated Alumina Plant is
ISO 14001 certified

Dr. Farid Azizian (Right), with Ravi
Agarwal and W. Gregory Doolin at the
Bhopal Conference on Fluoride Mitigation,
January 2001.