Innovation

Continuous innovation is a key business philosophy of the Moya Bushnak. In their expansion process they pioneered many concepts in their fields of activity. The following points are the highlights of the important milestones that they have achieved in their business career:

• First GCC family to start a Manufacturing company to manufacture desalination units (Al Kawthar Industries)
• First Saudi Membrane manufacturing company.
• First commercial promoters of Reverse Osmosis Technology in GCC region.
• First national approval for a company to compete against government and privately desalinate and supply water in bulk quantities in Saudi Arabia. 
• 1995 - Pioneered to use the First high recovery (40%) seawater reverse osmosis plant design in Saudi Arabia for Durrat Al Arus Project with seawater salinity of 42,000 ppm.
• 1995 - First containerized Mobile RO plant of 500 m³/d capacity.
• 1995 - Pioneered to implement the Energy Recovery Devices (Turbo charger) in seawater reverse osmosis plant design in Saudi Arabia for Durrat Al Arus Project.
• 1998 - Pioneered to use the Pilot Membrane Pre-treatment System (Micro filtration system) at King Faisal Navel Base, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• 1999 - Pioneered to implement the high efficiency Energy Recovery Devices (Pressure exchanger) in seawater reverse osmosis pilot plant.
• 1999 - Pioneered to use the First high recovery (50%) seawater reverse osmosis plant design in India for Narippayur – 3,780 m³/d desalination project with seawater salinity of 38,000 ppm.
• 2000 - Pioneered to use the First high recovery (42%) seawater reverse osmosis plant design in Saudi Arabia for Kindasa Phase-A project (14,000 m³/d capacity) with seawater salinity of 42,000 ppm.
• 2003 - Introduced high recovery (50%) seawater reverse osmosis plant design in Saudi Arabia for Kindasa Phase-B project ( 25,500 m³/d capacity expandable to 34,000 m³/d) with seawater salinity of 42,000 ppm.
• 2004 - Pioneered to use Ultra Filtration member (UF) for seawater application in KSA. One year pilot test was conducted to demonstrate the feasibility. A paper was presented in the European Desalination Association.
• 2003 - Bushnak was pioneer to use the Integrated Membrane System (Ultra-filtration and seawater reverse osmosis) design in Saudi Arabia. A paper was submitted in International Desalination Association Conference - 2005.
• 2007 - Pioneered to introduce Hybrid pre-treatment using high filtration rate Dual Media Filters (DMF) and Ultra Filtration system to pre-treat difficult seawater. This was verified to be successful with pilot plant operation. Kindasa Phase-B is designed based on the hybrid design. A paper was presented in International Desalination Association Conference - 2007.
• 2007 - Pioneered to introduce a combination of high efficiency high pressure pump with high efficiency energy recovery device which consumes < 2.5 kw-hr/m3 as specific power on a Seawater RO plant in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in year 2007.
• 2009 - Pioneered to introduce a membrane distillation process to convert the SWRO brine into permeate water.
• 2012 - Consistantly producing seawater with a quality of < 1 SDI to feed the Seawater RO Plant.