Environmental care
— 2008-01-29 —

 According to management of Produkty Pitania, the company is completing installation of new treatment facilities from the well-known German supplier Huber Technology.

 

Despite the act that the existing discharge water treatment system is capable of handling its existing workload, the company is seeking to expand its production capacity and for this reason it upgrades its treatment facilities.

Specialists of the company spent two months looking for a contractor that would conform to the plant’s main requirement of ensuring maximum quality of production effluents treatment based on the most advanced technologies.  The selection process included preparation of requirements specification for the consequent international tender.  As a result, two companies including Huber technology and a well-known Austrian company were selected as bid finalists.

- We held a meeting with the management of Kaliningrad Sanitary and Epidemiological Office for representatives of these companies and understood that Huber Technology was better prepared to assist us in achieving our objectives, Vice-president of Produkty Pitania Damir Imamovic explained.

However, the contract was not made immediately. Representatives of Produkty Pitania Company visited a plant in Lithuania, which has been using the same type of treatment facilities.  We looked at the plant, studied their experience, considered all pros and contras and only after that signed the contract.

A Huber Technology engineer Johan Kinzel said to the press that his company had began its operations late in the nineteenth century and that it had an international reputation of a successful producer. The equipment produced by Huber Technology is in operation in Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, and Belgium. It was the first time that the company intended to install its equipment in Russia.

Huber Technology’s water treatment process is elaborate and almost entirely computerized.  Water is discharged after two stages of treatment including mechanical and chemical stages followed by a special phase of biological treatment at the plant’s existing facilities. In other words, the discharged water meets all sanitary standards.

The main feature of the new treatment facilities compared to those that were previously installed at the plant is that the former are fully automated. Only four people will be required to ensure maintenance of this equipment and these people will all be local residents.

Investments in construction of the new treatment plant amount to more than one million euros with 550 thousand euros of equipment cost.  Environmental safety has always been and will remain a priority for Produkty Pitania Company and investments in environmental projects will continue after the new treatment facilities are installed and commissioned