The Israeli group considered building a seawater refinery in Vietnam

The Group operates the largest seawater refinery in Israel, assessing Vietnam as a promising market.

IDE Group is operating the seawater refinery into Israel's largest and most modern freshwater. Mr. Ziv Shor, deputy project director of IDE, said he is considering the prospect of cooperation with Vietnam in the field of seawater filtration into fresh water.

The large-scale seawater refinery campus was built by the IDE Group at Sorek. (Photo: IDE)


The Sorek factory is located on the Mediterranean coast, 2.2 km from the coast and about 15 km south of Tel Aviv. Sea water is pumped through large pipes here.


Sorek factory supplies about 20% of Israel's freshwater needs, with a capacity of 624,000 m3 of water per day.


Seawater treatment area before desalination.

Seawater is introduced into filter tanks to remove dirt.

In the next phase, clean seawater is passed through filters using reverse osmosis (RO) technology for desalination.


This facility is capable of supplying 150 million cubic meters of water per year for 25 years.


Israel currently has 4 large-scale seawater refineries, of which Sorek is the world's largest capacity plant, operating since 2013.


The filtered saline water will be returned to the sea at a depth of 20m and 2 km away from the shore, through the sluice gate system, and fresh water is sold to the Israel Water Dewatering Authority (WDA).

Visitors enjoy fresh water after being treated at Sorek factory. WDA is aiming to reach nearly 650 million m3 of freshwater filtered from seawater each year from 2020.


All systems of the water purification plant are monitored and controlled via a large screen.

Each live session has two people controlling the system.

For five decades, IDE has installed more than 400 factories in more than 40 countries.The group currently operates some of the world's largest water filtration facilities in the US, Australia, India and China.