Hyde Marine Awarded Three Contracts for Hyde GUARDIAN® Ballast Water Management Systems

Calgon Carbon Corporation CCC announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Hyde Marine, Inc., has been awarded three contracts to supply a total of 13 Hyde GUARDIAN^® Ballast Water Treatment Systems for use on various vessels. The chemical free Hyde GUARDIAN BWT process uses filtration and ultraviolet disinfection to treat ships' ballast water to prevent the spread of invasive species from port to port. The Zhejiang Ouhua Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., located in Zhoushan, selected Hyde Marine to supply eight multi-purpose vessels for the China Navigation Co., Ltd., the deep sea shipping arm of John Swire & Sons, Ltd. The Hyde GUARDIAN systems for the China Navigation vessels will have a treatment capacity of 500 m^3/hr and will be delivered for installation beginning in April 2012.