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KAFMAR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES LLP
Eco-friendly solutions for waste water treatment Kafmar Environmental Services LLP elaborates on Kessel, a vertical of their company, which focuses on waste water solution products in an eco-friendly manner
Oil and Grease separator
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By SYBIL RODRIGUES
afmar Environmental Services LLP is owned by Caesar Fernandes in partnership with his wife, Dizzy. Kafmar offers holistic, practical, cost-effective, and sustainable solutions to the challenges found in water bodies left untouched over decades. Kafmar moves towards complimenting the environment, adding to biodiversity, and improving water quality. They motivate and encourage the business community and government bodies to care for nature and ensure that it is sustainable for future generations. They are also involved in various activities to safeguard mother nature as a part of their social responsibility. Kafmar offers different products and services in three different segments. The Waste Water Management Segment includes bio digestors/biosewage treatment plants, kitchen waste water management, and fuel separators for car and bike service centres. The Amphibious Excavator and Amphibious Weed Harvester takes care of land clearing and remediation work at mining areas, plantations, and swampy land areas, deepening and widening of canals and river ways, building
Lifting station
bunds, flood prevention and land reclamation, building walls for fish and shrimp ponds as well as wastewater treatment ponds, digging trenches for oil and gas piping installation in water bogged and swampy environments, transporting and clearing obstacles at landslide and earthquake areas, building water irrigation bunds at paddy fields and plantations, wetland constructions, deweeding of ponds, lakes, rivers, tributaries, and nallahs. The Fuel Segment consists of mobile diesel deliveries at one’s door step and prefabricated diesel storage tanks. Apart from these three segments, Kafmar provides various amenities to the hospitality industry like prefabricated oil and grease separators, pre-fabricated and single-phase electricity operated bio-sewage treatment plants and bio-digesters with zero maintenance. Kessel, a German company which deals with waste water solution products from plumbing equipment to nonreturnable lifting stations for toilets and sewage, is another business vertical owned by Kafmar Environmental Services LLP. They have mini lifting stations for separate toilets and different kinds of equipment for kitchens. They
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“We have to address restaurants at large who face this problem. Many are not aware that this product exists in the market and use a cheaper option. The cheaper alternatives have baffle walls and are available in SS and fibre tank which are extremely inconvenient to use and do not give the required results”
Caesar Fernandes
Caesar Fernandes
Owner, Kafmar Environmental Services LLP
also have drain channels for showers, bathrooms and other sanitary purposes. One of the products that they are basically focusing on for Goa is oil-grease separators. These oil grease separators separate oil and grease from the waste water that goes out of the sink of the kitchen. As waste water is contaminating most of the small hotels in Goa, they leave it out directly in the soak pit. So what happens is, in the filtrate this oil blocks all the sides of the soak pit which then starts acting like a tank and starts storing water. This water is not soaked up, which leads to pollution and harms the
environment in the long run. In Goa, this process is not monitored properly because the only mandate you need is to have a grease trap. It does not show any measurement, and they do not have any regulatory idea of how it works. Kessel works under European standards which follows EN1825, regulations for an oil grease trap. This standard specifies requirements on selection of nominal sizes, installation, operation, and maintenance of grease separators. Unfortunately, India doesn’t have any such regulations so Continued On Page 65
