Water quality and efficiency for industrial and environmental performance
Industrial water has to adapt to specific processes and qualities. Often governed by the regulatory standards of highly demanding markets such as pharmaceuticals and the food industry, it must ensure unfailing safety. Its treatment and management require solutions tailored to each use, but also within a context of resource and environmental preservation.
Safety, efficiency and quality: ultrapure water you can trust
Meeting the needs of each food sector
Limiting withdrawals and discharges into the natural environment and reducing the consumption of water, energy and chemicals are all environmental issues closely linked to the use of water in industry. The choices made in terms of water treatment, and more generally optimal water management, are options for saving these different resources, as well as an effective strategy for enhancing industrial performance.
Water, energy, chemicals: consume less and better quality
Win-win partnerships
Laboratoires Sarbec
Combining industrial performance and environmental protection
The Laboratoires Sarbec plant in Neuville-en-Ferrain is committed to a dual mission: guaranteeing the excellence of its products while preserving water resources. BWT technologies enable them not only to meet high water quality standards, but also to make significant water savings, with 6,000 m³ saved per year
The result: 6,000 m³ of water saved and purified water produced in compliance with the European Pharmacopoeia.
L'Oréal Libramont
Reducing water consumption
The plant wishes to respond to a common mission: to guarantee the 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 of L'Oréal products, with demanding water quality, while preserving water resources!
L'Oréal Libramont entrusted BWT with the design of the installation intended to meet these requirements. Reverse osmosis was chosen, with a double osmosis unit.
The result: 60 million litres of water saved every year and purified water produced in compliance with the European Pharmacopoeia.
Cognac production requires extremely demanding water quality. BWT France, aware of these challenges and as a partner of Rémy Martin for over 20 years, was tasked with rethinking water management in 2019.
In addition to producing water that complies with the EC 1935/2004 standard, Rémy Martin is reusing its osmosis concentrates for its utilities and reducing its consumption of chemicals.
Results: 1,200 m3 of water recycled per year and 60% fewer chemicals
BWT deployed its innovative BWT ECO-MX technology for the on-site generation of a fresh disinfectant solution by salt electrolysis at a paper mill producing wiping paper, soaps and hand hygiene solutions.
The results: the company halved its budget for biocidal water treatment and cut its supply transport by a factor of 3
Another benefit for our customer: chemical risks for the 250 employees have been significantly reduced!
The site is subject to periods of water stress that limit its access to water. In order to continue producing, BWT is helping it to reuse the wastewater from its WWTP to supply its CTs. In this latest full-scale industrial trial, almost 450 m3 of wastewater was recycled.
A conclusive step that has enabled our customer to:
- Gain a better understanding of the operation of its future wastewater treatment facility,
- Recycle almost 10% of its industrial water requirements.
As part of an energy management project for production, Licorne wanted to improve the quality of the water entering the boiler, which produces the steam needed to heat the brewing tanks and whose water treatment was provided by a softener.
By installing an osmosis unit at the steam boiler inlet ( OPTIVAP solution with ESC), our customer reduced its annual gas consumption as well as its water consumption.
Results: - 500 MWh per year, i.e. 10 tonnes of CO2 not emitted into the atmosphere and 60% less water used
To preserve the quality of bottled water, the bottling process uses natural mineral water to rinse the bottles and installations. Some of the raw water is recovered as service water for the utilities, while the surplus is sent to the wastewater treatment plant.
With a view to recovering the lost surplus, Volvic decided to install a treatment system designed to recycle the water, which could then be reused as process water.
Results: 600 m3 of water saved every day
As the distributor for the heating and chilled water network in La Défense (92), IDEX is working with BWT to improve the performance and efficiency of technical systems and the use of water from the Seine, which is filtered and pre-treated for the network's needs.
In particular, Enertherm chose BWT ECO-MX for the production of disinfectant solution by salt electrolysis, and BWT Bluwell for real-time monitoring of key indicators relating to the installation.
The results: 50% less water consumption and 40% fewer chemicals!
Kervalis-Armor has equipped itself with a container for reprocessing wastewater from the WWTP (wastewater treatment plant), to treat its effluent and limit the effluent discharged. The BWT container can purify, sanitise and soften up to 60 m3 of WWTP water a day.
With a capture rate of one million germs per millilitre, it delivers reprocessed water for industrial use of a quality that exceeds the required standards, guaranteeing optimum efficiency for production and employees.
Results: 15,000 m3 of reprocessed water per year
For a new production unit, Naos Dipta acquired an Osmotron, designed and optimised to meet the pharmaceutical industry’s quality standards.
BWT's support at every stage of the production, storage and distribution process for water specifically adapted to cosmetic needs completes the company's water treatment system.
As an industrial glassmaker, Cookware International uses water to cool the components that come into contact with the molten glass.
Classified as an ICPE, the site is subject to a number of energy constraints, in addition to health and environmental requirements. Cookware International therefore called on BWT to ensure a continuous supply of cooling water
Results: reduced water consumption and elimination of chemical and pollution risks
As a manufacturer of galvanised sheet metal, Arcelor Mittal has relied on BWT for over 25 years to treat the water in its cooling towers, steam boilers and wastewater treatment plant.
The site has deployed the innovative BWT ECO-MX and BWT Bluwell solutions to reduce the risks of legionella, corrosion and scaling, ensure continuous monitoring of the installations, and guarantee optimum quality, performance and safety throughout the water treatment chain.
Results: safe installations
An ICPE site specialising in the manufacture of stone wool insulation products and solutions, Rockwool is deeply committed to preserving natural resources, in particular by optimising its industrial processes.
BWT has been working with them since the late 1990s to treat the catchment water used both as a raw material in the manufacture of rockwool and in the cooling circuits, which comprise 16 towers.
The results: fewer chemicals and safer teams and infrastructures.
For over 40 years, BWT has been helping Safran Electronics & Defense to treat its industrial water. A comprehensive solution and day-to-day support, thanks to a team of 5 people working continuously on site.
The site benefits from BWT solutions to produce ultrapure water, treat cooling towers and treat wastewater, as well as monitoring plant availability indicators.
Results: industrial, energy and environmental performance
For the company, the objective was twofold: to preserve water resources by reusing as much of it as possible in its industrial processes, but also to return the “cleanest” water possible to the river into which the effluent is discharged, without any risk to the local aquatic flora and fauna.
By installing an osmosis unit from the Sigma range, our customer was able to reduce its water consumption.
The result: 80,000 m³ of water reused every year, and equipment that lasts.
During the production of sugar, alcohol and bioethanol, two stages in the sugar process are particularly water-intensive: washing the beet as it enters the factory and extracting the sugar from the beet. At its Bazancourt site, Cristal Union has decided touse the water naturally present in the beet for the washing and extraction processes, in order to limit the amount of water it withdraws from groundwater. This water has to be treated upstream.
Results: 400,000 m3 of water recycled per year
From 4 to 6 March 2025, come and discover BWT's innovative solutions to optimise your water and energy consumption, reduce your costs and contribute to a more sustainable future!
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