Sembcorp Industries says its utilities business has secured its first wastewater treatment customer in the new Tembusu district of Singapore’s Jurong Island petrochemical cluster.

Sembcorp will provide industrial wastewater treatment services to German specialty chemicals company Lanxess’ butyl rubber facility from a new integrated industrial wastewater treatment plant to be located in Tembusu.

Expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2012 at an investment cost of $40 million, the new facility will more than double Sembcorp’s current industrial wastewater treatment capacity on Jurong Island, and will be sufficient to serve Lanxess as well as further customers. The facility is expected to have an initial total capacity of 9,600 cubic metres per day to serve its customers.