IDE Technologies

IDE Technologies is an Israeli water desalination company.^[1]

IDE Technologies

Industry	water desalination
Founded	1965; 60 years ago (1965)
Headquarters	Hamatechet Street, Hasharon Industrial Park, Kadima, Israel
Key people	Asaf Bartfeld (Chairman) Avshalom Felber (CEO & President)
Owner	Alpha Partners, Delek
Website	ide-tech.com

History

The company was founded in 1965^[2] by Ukrainian-born engineer Alexander Zarchin.^[3] It is headquartered in the Hasharon Industrial Park in Kadima, Israel.^[1] Its chairman is Asaf Bartfeld,^[2] while its chief executive officer and president is Avshalom Felber.^[1]

In Israel, it has built desalination plants in Hadera, Ashkelon and Soreq.^[4][5]

In 2013, it agreed to design the Carlsbad desalination plant in Carlsbad, California.^[6] It was expected to be completed by 2016,^[7] however, due to the continuing drought in California, plant completion was advanced to late 2015, and was eventually finished in December, 2015.^[8] Other projects under construction include plants in India,^[9] Chile, Venezuela and Mexico.^[10]

Ownership

IDE is jointly owned by Alfa Partners, a private strategic water fund controlled by Avshalom Felber, IDE Executive Chairman, and Amir Lang, former EVP of the Delek Group.^[11]