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| Industry | water desalination |
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| Founded | 1965 |
| Headquarters | Hamatechet Street, Hasharon Industrial Park, Kadima, Israel |
Key people | Asaf Bartfeld (Chairman) Avshalom Felber (CEO & President) |
| Owner | Alpha Partners, Delek |
| Website | ide-tech.com |
IDE Technologies is an Israeli water desalination company. [1]
The company was founded in 1965 [2] by Ukrainian-born engineer Alexander Zarchin. [3] It is headquartered in the Hasharon Industrial Park in Kadima, Israel. [1] Its chairman is Asaf Bartfeld, [2] while its chief executive officer and president is Avshalom Felber. [1]
In Israel, it has built desalination plants in Hadera, Ashkelon and Soreq. [4] [5]
In 2013, it agreed to design the Carlsbad desalination plant in Carlsbad, California. [6] It was expected to be completed by 2016, [7] however, due to the continuing drought in California, plant completion was advanced to late 2015, and was eventually finished in December, 2015. [8] Other projects under construction include plants in India, [9] Chile, Venezuela and Mexico. [10]
IDE is jointly owned by Alfa Partners, a private strategic water fund controlled by Avshalom Felber, IDE Executive Chairman, and Amir Lang, former EVP of the Delek Group.
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