Create value out of water & waste Nijhuis Industries

CREATE VALUE OUT OF WATER & WASTE

Specialising in smart water & waste solutions for the industrial and municipal market, Nijhuis Industries has a global network of Sales & Service Centers and business partners that meet the world’s strictest water & waste standards. Emma-Jane Batey spoke to marketing officer Steven Nieuwboer to learn more about its ‘Solid Solutions in a Fluid World’ promise.

Active worldwide with more than 2400 completed projects in over 85 countries, Nijhuis Industries designs, manufactures and delivers robust technology, solid solutions and added value services to treat effluent, process water, biogas and air across a wide range of industries and municipalities. Based in the Netherlands, Nijhuis encompasses Nijhuis Water Technology, Nijhuis Ozone Solutions, Nijhuis H2OK and has Sales & Service Centers in China, Canada, central Europe, Germany, Latin America, Middle East, Russia, UK, Ukraine and USA. Nijhuis has a network of over 40 certified business partners that all work together to create value out of water & waste with their smart solutions.

With its commitment to realising the value of (waste)water, recover valuable raw materials and make them available for sustainable reuse, Nijhuis is driven by its mission of ‘Solid solutions in a fluid world’.

This important statement underpins the whole operation, as marketing officer Steven Nieuwboer explained to Industry Europe. He said, “Our vision and company mission of ‘Solid Solutions in a Fluid World, highlights our determination to fulfil the market’s need for innovative, sustainable solutions at the lowest possible operational cost. Our team of highly trained and experienced technologists and process engineers are constantly evaluating the most appropriate solutions for purifying wastewater, recovering valuable resources and chemical free disinfection and reuse of process water while meeting increasinglystringent environmental requirements.”

Mr Nieuwboer continued, “That’s why we promise to deliver ‘Solid Solutions in a Fluid World’. It’s a promise that shows that we strongly believe that through combining our longstanding expertise and know-how we can design, manufacture and deliver solid solutions with the highest level of innovation to meet today’s challenges as well as those of the future.”

The team of experts at Nijhuis are experienced in performing treatability studies and the state-of-the-art facilities at each site have the capability to provide lab testing and pilot testing. There is also a complete R&D department which is continuously working on the innovation and improvement of existing technologies and the development of new solutions. Mr Nieuwboer continued, “We also have our own engineering and manufacturing facilities which allow us to guarantee a quick and flexible approach as well as short delivery times. We offer everything from single units right up to integrated overall solutions or containerised installations according to specific and local requirements so all customers can be assured that Nijhuis can provide the exact solution they need – even if they don’t know exactly what they need. We offer testing on-site and, thanks to our incredible R&D department, we aim to stay at least one step ahead of the industry challenges.”

Water & waste everywhere

The broad scope of Nijhuis’s capabilities means that its customers can be found across industrial and municipal sectors, including food, beverage, oil, gas & mining and municipalities. For the food industry, its most active industry sector, the company offers a wide range of solutions. Wastewater & process water reuse systems are implemented in the complete food chain, with projects completed for slaughterhouses, meat processing, fish processing, edible oil production and vegetable harvesting. Solutions available for the food industry include meeting ever demanding discharge limits, removal of fats, oils and grease, recovery of valuable product, chemical free disinfection and the reuse of water.

Mr Nieuwboer added, “Nijhuis Industries will select, design and build the most suitable plant for each application, taking into consideration investment, operational costs, local requirements and reliability. With our added value services, customers can be sure that Nijhuis will deliver our proven combination of expertise and know-how together with engineering skill.”

For the oil, gas & mining sector, Nijhuis offers solutions for the removal of hydrocarbons and other contaminations from water. It also provides solutions for treating wastewater prior to reuse in the production process or discharge, providing the added benefit of reducing wastewater disposal costs and environmental compliance. Mr Nieuwboer explained, “We have extensive experience all over the world in the design, development and implementation of waste water and sludge treatment plants for oil refineries, the petrochemicals industry and for tank farms. Our engineers are certainly well used to the exceptionally high technological standards required in the oil, petrochemical and tank farm industries.”

Waste not

Creating value from waste is integral to Nijhuis’s ongoing success. Realising the value of wastewater and waste underlines Nijhuis Industries’ determination to fulfill the market’s need for innovative, sustainable solutions with minimum life cycle cost and is promoted across all of its divisions and active sectors, with the various methods of extracting value wherever possible at the heart of every project. Mr Nieuwboer commented, “Our waste to value understanding is very important in the completion of each solution; whether it’s sludge and waste digestion, anaerobic digestion systems for manure, algae refining and harvesting or recycling, we

are always trying to find the most effective, ecologically-sustainable solution that gives the best performance for our customers and create value out of water and waste.”

With its innovative smart and solid solutions such as the AecomixTM to turn a (waste) water plant into a true powerplant in one single process (winner of the ADBA Industry Award in 2014 and nominated for the Aquatech Innovation Award in 2013), the Nijhuis Ammonia Recovery, the Intelligent DAF and Nijhuis Oil Recovery combined with their online monitoring programme, the company expects its future to be every bit as successful as its past. It regularly participates in important international trade exhibitions, such as the Anuga FoodTec fair in March and the AquaTech in November. Furthermore, its recent acquisitions in 2013 of Excellent Ozone Solutions (nowadays Nijhuis Ozone Solutions) and H20K Water & Energy (nowadays Nijhuis H2OK) will enable it to continue expanding its range of innovative smart and solid solutions. n

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