Industry accounts for about 40% of total water usage, mostly supplied via direct extraction from the subsoil or surface waters. The affordable availability of this essential resource is under siege by global warming, increasing population and urbanization. While the effect of industrial effluents faces ever more scrutinization by the general public and governmental entities.
To safeguard the non-food industry from these developments Colubris offers a whole range of innovative solutions.
The production of paper and cardboard causes wastewater during several phases of the production process. Examples of these phases are bleaching, washing, cooking and dewatering of the pulp.
In the petrochemical industry, the wastewater may contain high amounts of oil which is released in the wastewater during several processes. We can offer you various wastewater treatment units that are very appropriate for this industry.
During the production of medicines and cosmetics the wastewater gets polluted with fats, oils, residual soap and fine particles. Fats and oils can be removed very efficiently by our oil/water separators.
City size flows of hot and very caustic, interestingly colored wastewater are quite common in the textile industry.
Mineral tanning, mainly based on the application of chromium, is the most popular process for large scale tanning because it works efficiently and produces leather with good physical and chemical properties.
Stone processing companies make use of large quantities of water, during the polishing and sawing process, where it is used as cooling water.
One of the biggest losses in this industry are left overs in trucks and other equipment and failed batches. These are often dumped to prevent it from curing inside the equipment, which would often result in irreparable damage.
Alcohol production generates exceptionally high strength wastewater, vinasse, which contains high levels of some of the most difficult to decompose non-biodegradable pollutants generated by an agro industry.
Flood control is the main source of wastewater in these sites. Usually generating vast volumes of water that is contaminated with mostly inorganic solids and various dissolved minerals.
Separating the dense and super viscous petroleum from sand or partially consolidated sandstone, produces the some of the most difficult wastewater found in the petrochemical industry.