Article: Serving the thirst for clean water Brown Deer company opens research facility

By JOHN SCHMID

As metro Milwaukee strives to become a leader in water technology, it's significant that Singapore -- which already brands itself as a "global hydrohub" -- keeps placing big orders with one area water engineering company.

Brown Deer-based Sanitaire, a subsidiary of ITT Corp., makes equipment that bubbles oxygen to grow microorganisms that clean wastewater. "We are the largest in the world at what we do," said Kenneth George, general manager of ITT Sanitaire.

Acquired by ITT 10 years ago, Sanitaire is in growth mode, George said. One indicator: the orders from Singapore, which recently awarded Sanitaire its fifth multimillion-dollar water treatment project in 15 years.

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