Milestones

• 1958

  

  Founded in 1958 by Lebanese entrepreneur, Farouk Ghandour, who was later joined by his brother, Metito current Chairman, Mutaz Ghandour, in 1966.

• 1972

  

  First company to introduce a reverse Osmosis desalination plant for drinking water outside the United States.

• 1977

  

  Metito established manufacturing facilities in Houston, Texas and an engineering and design support center in Wimbledon, London.

• 1999

  

  Expanded into the concessions business and pioneers concession contracts with private entities in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.

• 1999

  

  Metito commissioned the first ever Public-Private Partnership wastewater treatment plant in MENA, Dubai Investment Park, UAE.
  Capacity: 56,000 m3/day.

• 2003

  

  Re-established operations in Saudia Arabia

• 2006

  

  Gulf Capital invests in Metito via a majority stake acquisition.

• 2007

  

  Revised its corporate structure to reflect diversification strategy and created MUL (incorporated in Guernsey). IFC acquired a minority stake in the Group through capital increase.

• 2008

  

  Metito and Berlinwasser formed BCH to invest in water and wastewater projects in China, with 51% shareholding by Metito.

• 2011

  

  Metito acquired the remaining 49% stake in BCH.

• 2014

  

  Mitsubishi and JBIC acquired a stake in Metito.

• 2017

  

  Metito divested 100% of its China operations as part of a successful capital recycling event, after growing the business in China from 2 to 11 projects over 9 years.

• 2018

  

  Metito executed “Al Mahsamma” Project, the 2nd largest agricultural waste & water reuse plant, Egypt. Capacity: 1,000,000 m3/day.

• 2018

  

  Metito executed the “Galala” Project, the largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Egypt.
  Capacity: 150,000 m3/day.

• 2018

  

  Metito commissioned the first Public-Private Partnership bulk water treatment plant in Sub Saharan Africa, Rwanda.
  Capacity: 40,000 m3/day.

• 2019

  

  Metito executed the desalination plant supplying the futuristic city NEOM. KSA. The plant is co-powered by solar energy.
  Capacity:125,000 m3/day.

• 2020

  

  Metito is developing the first independent wastewater treatment plant in Dammam, KSA.
  Capacity: 200,000 m3/day expandable to 350,000 m3/day.

• 2020

  

  Metito awarded the O&M of Doha South Catchment Zone, Qatar.
  Capacity: 2,200,000 m3/day.

• 2021

  

  Metito is developing the iconic desalination plants on floating barges, the largest operating of their kind globally, for KSA.
  Capacity: 3*50,000 m3/day

• 2021

  

  Metito is developing, as part of a JV,  the “New Delta” Project, the world largest agricultural waste & water reuse plant, Egypt.
  Capacity: 7,500,000 m3/day.

• 2021

  

  Metito is developing the single largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant globally in Jubail, KSA.

  Capacity: 1,000,000 m3/day.

• 2021

  

  Metito is developing the first ever Public-Private Partnership wastewater treatment project in Namangan, Uzbekistan.
  Capacity: 100,000 m3/day.

• 2021/2022

  

  Metito is executing the first water and wastewater Public-Private Partnership plants in in Zrenjanin, Serbia.
  Capacity: 30,240 m3/day & 25,000 m3/day.

• 2023

  

  Metito is executing its largest project to date, the ADNOC large scale seawater treatment plant in Abu, Dhabi, UAE.
  Capacity 500,000 m3/day.

• 2023

  

  Metito is developing the first wastewater Public-Private Partnership in Qatar, Al Wakrah and Al Wukair plant.
  Capacity: 150,000 m3/day.

• 2023

  

  Metito is executing one of the largest desalination plants in South Asia in Chennai, India.
  Capacity: 400,000 m3/day.