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Chemical Technology • September 2015
WATER TREATMENT PROFILE
T
he Veolia Group began 160 years ago and now
has a presence in more than 50 countries.
Veolia Water Technologies South Africa (Veolia),
the southern African subsidiary of the Veolia Group,
with offices in Johannesburg, Durban and Paarl in South
Africa, also has representation in Gaborone, Botswana
and Windhoek, Namibia, and is responsible for business
in southern and sub-Saharan Africa. The company is
presently further diversifying into surrounding countries
where, as is the case worldwide, there is a scarcity of
water and thus an urgent need for innovative water treat-
ment solutions and environmentally friendly technologies.
Apparent from the outset is the fact that Veolia remains
a ‘total water solutions-based company’ at core, simultane-
ously pro-actively offering its newest water and waste water
treatment technologies while putting customers’ benefits
and returns on investment at the top of their list of priori-
ties. These benefits are the result of a value-added service
offered by Veolia and include reduction of costs, re-use of
waste byproducts in positive ways and attention to envi-
ronmental impact, energy-efficiency and carbon footprint.
This affirms the parent company’s value proposition:
‘Resourcing the world’, a slogan which Veolia embraces
wholeheartedly by constantly developing access to re-
sources, preserving resources, and replenishing resources,
ie, providing optimised resource management to all its
customers.
What does Veolia Water Technologies
offer in terms of services?
Veolia Water Technologies describes itself as ‘a holistic wa-
ter and wastewater treatment company’, offering a full range
of services, from turnkey contracting for large and small
projects, both municipal and industrial, to speciality chemi-
cals. Included in the company’s scope is the designing and
building of plants, static as well as mobile, modular plants
(particularly important in African countries north of South
Africa) and engineered systems; supporting project teams;
and managing plant operations on site. Services include
membrane cleaning and replacement, plant refurbishment,
maintenance, chemicals and consumables supply. Thus, it
treats and monitors water quality at each stage in the water
cycle, from extraction of the natural resource through to its
discharge back into the natural environment.
With a portfolio of over 350 proprietary technologies, the
recovery of water throughout the water treatment cycle in an
Veolia Water Technologies South Africa –
Resourcing the world
Dr Gunter Rencken, Managing Director, and Chris Braybrooke, General Manager -
Business Development at Veolia Water Technologies South Africa, recently met with
the editor of ‘Chemical Technology’ to talk about the company’s plans for the future
and to outline its latest activities in the water technologies sector.