Envirochemie
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| Ltd. | |
| Traded as | ЕС |
| Industry | Industrial building |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Roßdorf (Darmstadt), Germany |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Gottlieb Hupfer (CEO), Gerhard Haering (CFO), Dr. Volker Oles, Peter Leyendecker |
| Products | wastewater treatment systems |
| € 75 million (2009) | |
Number of employees | 490 (2014) |
Envirochemie GmbH is a company that designs and manufactures wastewater treatment facilities. The company and its subsidiaries make up the EnviroWorld group, headquartered in Roßdorf, near Darmstadt, Germany.
History
Envirochemie was founded in 1976 in Switzerland. The company began with the manufacture of compact treatment plants under the trade name Split-O-Mat. A year later, they started to build stationary treatment facilities using physico-chemical treatment. In 1987 the German branch of firm started wastewater treatment using membrane technologies. Since 1996 Envirochemie have applied biological methods in wastewater treatment and have relocated their headquarters to Germany. Since 2000, the company has created subsidiaries in several other countries. Currently, together with subsidiaries in Germany (Falk GmbH and DTS GmbH), Austria, Bulgaria, Brazil, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Switzerland, Sweden it constitutes the EnviroWorld group, with headquarters in Roßdorf.
Activity
Envirochemie is engaged in the engineering, construction, modernisation and servicing of water treatment facilities. The company sells treatment facilities, spare parts and reagent for wastewater treatment. Both biological and physical-chemical methods, flotation and membrane technology are used. The company also offers compact treatment facilities.
Completed projects include:
- Biological wastewater treatment for Beiersdorf in São Paulo, Brazil
- Wastewater treatment for Toyota Motor Corporation in Saint Petersburg, Russia;
- Wastewater treatment of pit water for a coal mine of Siberian Coal Energy Company in Russia
- Wastewater treatment for Carl Zeiss AG Sport Optics in Germany
- Biological wastewater treatment in the production of chewing gum for Wrigley Company
- Biomar and Envochem modular wastewater technology for Procter & Gamble in Romania
- Wastewater technology for the treatment of wastewater from laundries, including oil recycling by MEWA Textil-Service in France.
Sources
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- Forscher der TU Kaiserslautern erfinden Mini-Kläranlage", Komplett water recycling systems (German)
- Rob de Luick, Gerd Krueger, "Manage wastewater", Industrial Ecology 6 (2005) (Russian)
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