MANTECH and Aqua Diagnostic enter Long-term Agreement 

Aqua Diagnostic Pty. Ltd. and MANTECH INC. announced today the formation of a new long-term Agreement and will continue to work closely together to build the widespread global use of the green COD analysis method utilising the PeCOD® technology. 

With the recent announcements that the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE) has validated the use of the PeCOD® technology for water quality analysis and released method E3515, plus the European Union REACH regulation has banned dichromate effective 2017, both parties are confident that the PeCOD® COD analysis will gain widespread international use as more jurisdictions adopt the green COD method and industry recognise the advantages of rapid COD analysis.

Under the new Agreement MANTECH will continue to manufacture the PeCOD® analysers and offer the laboratory L100 analyser in combination with the MANTECH systems and software on an exclusive basis throughout its global distribution network.  Aqua Diagnostic will continue to manufacture and supply the proprietary PeCOD® sensors.

According to Dr. Roger Knight, Chief Executive Officer, Aqua Diagnostic, “We are very pleased to be extending our partnership with MANTECH.  After introducing our unique range of new COD analysers to the Canadian and North American markets in 2009, MANTECH have built a strong base of new customers throughout the world who are now benefiting from the real time, in-situ, low operating cost, and green chemistry PeCOD^® COD analyzers.”

According to Robert Menegotto, President and Chief Executive Officer of MANTECH, "We are very excited about the future of the unique green chemistry COD analysis product, the PeCOD®.  With the recent Ontario MOE announcement and outstanding independent assessment of the technology for COD in surface and drinking water analysis, we expect strong growth as more customers are able to gain the benefits of the PeCOD^® technology in the field, the laboratory, at-line process laboratory and on-line, coupled with our fully automated MANTECH systems.”