Saudi GI Aqua Tech to Export Nanotech Water Plant to Europe

Saudi Arabia’s GI Aqua Tech will export its first industrial wastewater treatment plant using nanotechnology to Europe in early 2026, marking the first Saudi-manufactured nanotechnology-based water treatment and reuse system to be shipped abroad.

The project, valued at approximately EUR 5 million (around USD 5.9 million), will see the plant installed at a cosmetics manufacturing facility in France. According to the company, the system operates on a per cubic metre treatment model and is designed to enable 100% reuse of industrial wastewater.

GI Aqua Tech said it plans to export additional units to Bahrain and other Gulf states in the first quarter of 2026, with a combined treatment capacity of 10,000 cubic metres.

GI Aqua Tech also highlighted what it described as the world’s first decentralised nanotechnology wastewater treatment plant located within a residential neighbourhood, built in Al-Mousa district in northern Jeddah in 10 days to serve 8,000 residents, with the ability to relocate the unit if needed. Additional applications include a large-scale plant treating concrete factory wastewater in Neom and a system at Samhan Hotel in Riyadh handling kitchen, laundry and blackwater.