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ENVIROCHEMIE

ENVIROCHEMIE MILESTONES EnviroChemie GmbH supplies energy-saving 1976 Company founded in and resource-efficient system solutions for 1987 Company founded in Germany the industry worldwide. With around 550 and company’s headquarters expanded systems delivered each year and more than 10,000 customers, EnviroChemie is a leader 2000 Companies founded in and in decentralized industry wastewater treat- Russia ment in Germany and other European coun- 2001 Introduction of the EnviroDTS tries. Products as well as technologies used product line; systems for biotechnology from the company serve the industrial water and healthcare facilities treatment, water recycling and wastewater treatment. EnviroChemie provides, as a first 2002 Companies founded in Brazil and step, advice, then designs, builds and oper- Romania ates the facilities. The comprehensive range 2006 Introduction of the EnviroFALK of services extends over the entire operating product line of process water compact time of the facilities. units Laboratory and pilot plant trials are con- Dr. Volker Oles, Gottlieb ducted for the basic evaluation. Configurations 2010 Integration of AWATEC AG, Swit- Hupfer (CEO), Peter are then made on the basis of this evalua- zerland; branch in Sweden is founded Leyendecker and Gerhard tion. The company’s own R&D department 2012 Introduction of the innovation Häring (f.l.t.r.) manage redevelops or further develops systems with- EnviroChemie GmbH; EnviModul - modular plant systems; in the context of customer orders, research a look at the production acquisition of Dr. Baer Engineering GmbH (bottom) collaborations and for their own plant devel- opment. With Envopur, EnviroChemie in- troduced a highly innovative membrane wastewater treatment processes which re- method for recovering ceramic from grind- cover energy from wastewater in the form of ing water. A high degree of innovation is biogas and/or thermal energy, as well as shown in Flomar high-performance flotation modular plant systems of the EnviModul plants with special air saturation for effec- series. Apart from traditional industrial sec- tive cleaning of heavily polluted industrial tors, the products are also used in research wastewater. These systems are used, for ex- facilities, the healthcare sector (wastewater ample, in the chipboard industry. sterilization and decontamination), transpor- In addition to the food industry and the tation (e.g. internal tank cleaning, recycling chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the of aircraft de-icing fluid) and in commercial automotive and metal industries provide the kitchens (treatment of fatty kitchen waste- majority of EnviroChemie’s customers. De- water). mand is particularly strong for biological Branches of EnviroChemie are located at four locations in Germany as well as in Swit- zerland, Poland, Russia, the , , Romania and Sweden. In addition, there is a central agency in Rio de Janeiro. The company was founded at Lake Zurich in Switzerland in 1976. Since 1987, it has been headquartered in Rossendorf near Darm- stadt. Here EnviroChemie has 140 employees (2012), worldwide there are 350 with an engineer ratio of 70%. In 2011, it generated a turnover of 75 million euros.

FACTS AND FIGURES Plant for chemical-physical Industry: process engineering machinery wastewater treatment and equipment (top); customers include major dairies (centre); Products: plants for industrial water view of the research and treatment, water recycling and wastewater development (bottom) EnviModul modular plant systems for decen- treatment tralized water and wastewater treatment

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BLUE COMPETENCE: ENERGY FROM WASTEWATER »WE DO NOT Sometimes you just have to look closely. LEAVE OUR This was also the case with Biomar, a de- CUSTOMERS velopment that is based on entirely natural ON THEIR OWN processes. Biomar has basically copied the metabolic system of cows. In several steps WITH THE - similar to a cow’s stomach - food waste- FACILITIES.

water is treated. In this way, water, CO2 and ENVIROCHEMIE biogas are produced. The starting point for SEES ITSELF this development was that a Swedish dairy AS A QUALITY produced large amounts of whey each day, which arises as a waste product in the manu- facture of dairy products. The high-energy by-product had to be disposed of, partly at SUPPLIER FOR great expense. EnviroChemie developed a concept with which the non-recyclable organic WATER load in the whey is converted along with other industrial wastewater into energy-rich bi- ENGINEERING ogas by means of anaerobic wastewater treatment: Biomar. In addition, a part of the PLANTS AND thermal energy stored in the wastewater is recovered via a heat exchanger and heat pump. ATTACHES EnviroChemie was awarded the “Energy Globe Award 2012” for this project. PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO Customer industries: almost all industry Founded: 1976, Switzerland sectors, research institutes, healthcare, INNOVATION, Member of VDMA since: 1994 transportation, commercial kitchens DURABILITY AS Market position: leader in the decentral- CONTACT WELL AS ENERGY- ized industry wastewater treatment in Ger- AND RESOURCE- EnviroChemie GmbH many and other European countries EFFICIENT In den Leppsteinswiesen 9 Turnover: 75m euros (2011) D-64380 Rossdorf SOLUTIONS.« D +49 6154 6998-0 Employees: 350 worldwide, including 140 A +49 6154 6998-11 Gottlieb Hupfer, CEO in Rossendorf (2012) C [email protected] Locations: Germany, Switzerland, Poland, E www.envirochemie.com Russia, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Romania, Contact for press: Sweden, Brazil Jutta Quaiser Export ratio: 60% D +49 6154 6998-72 C [email protected]

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Encyclopaedia of German Mechanical Engineering, edited by Hannes Hesse, Florian Langenscheidt and Hartmut Rauen.