26TH June, Drammen, Norway: Newly-formed Moss Hydro has been established to address a ballast water challenge that is threatening the entire shipping industry - reliable filtration.

Stein Foss, the former CEO and co-founder of leading ballast water treatment (BWT) business OceanSaver, has set up the independent company with three partners, and an array of engineering, marketing and manufacturing experts. Together they are creating revolutionary filters designed specifically for ballast water treatment.

"Our filters offers the same quality of materials, precision manufacturing standards, self-cleaning capability and extremely short delivery times in one all-round package. This gives us a huge competitive advantage." comments Moss Hydro CEO Foss.

Foss and his colleagues, including former OceanSaver SVP of Business Development/ Research and Development Aage Bjorn Andersen, have engineered their own solution to these pressing issues.

Moss Hydro filters have been created for optimized self-cleaning and minimal maintenance. Crafted from super-duplex stainless steel, they are corrosion free and 50-70% lighter than conventional filters. The filters are manufactured in a highly robotized facility in Norway, enabling extraordinary precision. This achieves high accuracy, meeting strict requirements to tolerances, alongside high welding quality and total product uniformity.

"We have entered into an agreement with a world-class manufacturing facility created especially for our production needs. It is a state-of-the-art facility of 20,000m2, employing 200 people and boasting huge capacity. This gives us an extremely short turnaround time for orders," said Moss Hydro CEO Foss.

Moss Hydro will begin taking initial orders for its single and multi-screen filters (prototypes have been tested up to a capacity of 3,200 m3/hr) in September, with production commencing in Q4 2012.