OEM service contracts may not always initially look attractive to the UK Water Industry, but, given the increasing pressures to achieve compliance with equipment that is becoming ever more complex, and the demand on staff who are becoming stretched even more thinly, service contracts can be proven to make good business sense and help increase the return on investment of the initial outlay.
Nellingen / Bad Homburg, June 7, 2019 - Subject to approval by the German Federal Cartel Office, the owners of Gesellschaft für Wassertechnik und Apparatebau GmbH & Co.KG, Nellingen, sell the majority of their shares to ELIQUO WATER GROUP GmbH, Bad Homburg.
The sale of KG Nellingen to ELIQUO WATER GROUP is the result of active succession planning by the owners of KG Nellingen. In search of a suitable partner, the owners contacted SKion Water GmbH and already during the first initial conversations it became clear that there is a great cultural fit between the parties. ELIQUO WATER GROUP, which belongs to SKion Water GmbH, shares the mission and values of KG Nellingen: contribute to the sustainable protection of water as a resource through high-quality EPC contracting in the field of municipal water and wastewater technology. KG Nellingen will become part of a group of companies that cover all areas of municipal drinking water and wastewater treatment.
As a sub-contractor to Balfour Beatty, ELIQUO HYDROK has been awarded the installation of the internal pipework for the new Nereda®system for South West Water at the Newham WwTW works in Truro, Cornwall, which serves 27,000 population equivalent.
Presenters and delegates from ELIQUO HYDROK and parent company the Eliquo Water Group were part of a team that exhibited and presented at the European Biosolids & Organic Resources Conference and Exhibition held at the Royal Armouries, Leeds in November 2018.
ELIQUO HYDROK officially announced the new collaborative and distribution association with Biogest on the 1 November 2018, an association both companies believe to be a positive for the UK water industry, utility companies and contractors. It therefore came as no real surprise that 14 days after the new arrangement came into place the first order for a Biogest flow control regulator was agreed, swiftly followed by another on 26 November.
ELIQUO HYDROK have agreed an exclusive distribution association with Biogest AG from Germany to bring together their combined expertise from national and international markets for storm water solutions to the UK and Eire.
In the latest ‘WWT Explains’ guide produced in association with ELIQUO HYDROK, the guide explains the role played by Thermal Hydrolysis Processes, and looks at the latest innovations in the field as well as exploring THP’s potential in the emerging bio-resources landscape.
In a feature article for Water Active magazine, Managing Director Dave Armstrong discusses how he is extremely optimistic about the future for ELIQUO HYDROK, as the company looks to grow its existing product and services markets, whilst also developing new technologies and solutions. Key to this bright future was the acquisition by Eliquo Water Group, a parent company that bundles the activities of SKion Water GmbH in the field of municipal water and waste water equipment.
Although there has been a significant reduction in the amount of Phosphorus discharged to rivers from Wastewater Treatment Works in recent years (from 21,000 tonnes in 1995 to 8,000 tonnes in 2015), Phosphorus remains the main cause of water quality failures with the primary source still being wastewater discharges.
