News | February 26, 2021 Environmentally Friendly Water Treatment System Equipped With An FO Membrane Jointly Developed With SWPC And AJMC; Provisional Patent Application Filed In The U.S. Contributing to reducing wastewater by using concentrated seawater generated in seawater desalination plants Osaka /PRNewswire/ - Toyobo Co., Ltd. has jointly developed an environmentally friendly water treatment system equipped with a hollow fiber forward osmosis (FO) membrane for desalination plants. The company worked with SWPC (Sustainable Water Power Consultants FZ LLC) headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE, a consultant company in the field of seawater desalination, and Arabian Japanese Membrane Company, LLC (AJMC), a consolidated subsidiary of Toyobo, to develop the system, having filed a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We will continue to conduct demonstration tests to achieve the system's early commercialization.