About Us
JP AquaKnit Ltd. a start-up company operating in the field of wastewater biological reactor treatment systems. The company is developing proprietary biomass-carriers technology based on biological-inert 3 Dimensional (3D) knit fabrics having a very high surface area per defined volume. The knit fabrics are simple to refresh, inexpensive and simple to produce.
Existing technologies of biomass carriers suffer from clogging and fouling, and therefore require frequent cleaning while disturbing, and at times completely stopping, the treatment process. JP AquaKnit's technology has the advantage of cleaning the carriers on location without significantly hindering the process, thus enhancing the efficiency of water treatment plants (WWTPs).
JP AquaKnit’s 3D biomass carries are based on flexible mono-filament fabrics that can be “tailored made” to accommodate a wide range of operating wastewater facilities as well as facilities to be designed specifically for the 3D fabrics technology.

Market
JP AquaKnit's business and marketing goal is to be a major player in two wastewater treatment market-segments:
• The retrofitting and upgrading specific existing water treatment plants (“tailor-made” designs), increasing their efficiency and prolonging their life span.
• Integrating to the general equipment-market for water treatment biomass carriers.
The annual turnover sum of the total world market of the two mentioned wastewater treatment market-segments (equipment and maintenance) is many hundreds of millions of dollars. JP AquaKnit Ltd. aspires to be a significant “player” in the field within a few years. 

Team
Dr. Jonah Gavrieli:  CTO of JP AquaKnit Ltd.   Education:  A doctorate in water microbiology from the National Water Institute of Switzerland (EAWAG) through the Federal Swiss Technical University (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.  M.Sc. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel)  in Environmental Science. Dr. Gavrieli spent a sabbatical year in PennState University, Pennsylvania, USA where he was part of a team that developed industrial fermentation processes.        Work experience: 19 years as head of the bio-processes unit at TAMI-IMI, the R&D Institute of Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL).  Dr. Gavrieli is an accredited Israel Patent Attorney (license No. 366) and is a graduate of an advanced course in business-administration of the Administration-Collage in Tel-Aviv, Israel.  

Pini Hascalovich:  CEO of JP AquaKnit Ltd.   Education:   Industrial designer.  Work experience: Former manager of prototype department at Automotive Industries (Nazareth, Israel) and project manager of armored vehicles for IDF.    Mr. Hascalovich also serves as the CTO of ESCOM - a composite materials company and is an entrepreneur in green technologies projects of wind turbines and gas rotor engines based on self IP.

Emil (Rami) Hascalovich: A certified mechanical-engineer from the Technion, Haifa. Has many years of experience in industrial management. Rami supervised projects that integrated mechanical, hydraulic and electrical engineering-systems. Over the years he has gained extensive experience in production management engineering, in the purchasing of technical equipment and in operating in accordance with industrial safety and quality-control standards.

  
Company Status
JP AquaKnit’s team started in November 2009 an intensive R&D project under the administrative umbrella of the L.N. Technological Incubator in Haifa, Israel. 

Laboratory experiment results confirmed that JP AquaKnit Ltd. mono-filament knit-fabrics readily develop attached biomass when in contact with wastewater, and, stretching and relaxing biomass loaded knit-fabrics just as readily release accumulated biomass particles into the surrounding wastewater. A pilot knit-fabrics stretching and relaxing device is presently experimented with in treating wastewater in the municipal-sewage treatment plant of the city of Nazareth. Initial results indicate that a substantial improvement in the purification rate of the treated wastewater is achieved. Optimization of the stretching-relaxing regime and the type of knit-fabric to be utilized are investigated.  

A pilot knit-fabrics stretching and relaxing device will be shortly experimented with in recycling water in the intensive fish-growing farm in Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael. The increase in the removal rate of ammonia and dissolved organic substances when utilizing knit-fabrics will be determined. 

JP AquaKnit Ltd. has a patent pending, protecting its IP, in major industrial countries.