N.E.I. Treatment Systems is a pioneer and market leader in provisioning large commercial ships with Ballast Water Treatment Systems (BWTS). N.E.I. enables its customers to cost-effectively comply with pending IMO and U.S. regulations that protect the world's oceans and waterways from invasive aquatic plants and animals. These harmful aquatic organisms are transferred from one ecosystem to another via the ballast water discharged by ships, which if left untreated, are known to cause devastating ecological and economic harm to their new environments.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted a Ballast Water Management Convention which, upon ratification, will require all commercial ships to install and operate BWTS on a scheduled roll-out beginning in 2012. To address this critical requirement, N.E.I. developed, patented and commercialized the Venturi Oxygen Stripping™ (VOS™) System, becoming the first-to-market with a Type Approved ballast water treatment system which fully complies with the IMO's Ballast Water Discharge Standards.

VOS™ Ballast Water Treatment Delivers
IMO Compliance AND A Compelling Return on Investment!

The VOS™ System induces a low oxygen environment within the ballast tanks which safely and cost-effectively eliminates harmful aquatic organisms without the use of active sub- stances. At the same time, this low oxygen, non-toxic environment also protects the ship's ballast tank coatings against degradation and corrosion of steel, thereby extending the useful life of ballast tanks to more than 35 years and delivering a BWTS return on investment.