Sigma Water Group has launched a new facility in the Pont Xetmar industrial estate of Cornellà del Terri, in Pla de l"Estany, with which it reaches 10,000 m2 between workshops and offices and strengthens its activity in technologies for the treatment and reuse of industrial wastewater.
The company, specialized in systems for returning water to the productive cycle, links this expansion to the increase in demand and the need to gain industrial capacity without harming delivery times. From the company, they maintain that the relocation has not been just an improvement, but a necessity to absorb the volume of work and optimize the response to clients.
More industrial capacity and new corporate image
The new stage of Sigma Water Group also comes accompanied by a change in corporate image. The company argues that each of its brands has a specific function and that reinforcing that identity visually helps to explain the combined strength of the group.
In the new facilities, a production line of filter presses for sludge dewatering and a space destined for industrial tests and training has been incorporated. The company plans to use this environment as a technical center for clients, with pilot equipment and laboratory.
The expansion seeks to continue absorbing growth without affecting delivery times. That reinforcement is supported, furthermore, by its own laboratory and a research and development department focused on mechanical, hydraulic, and energy efficiency improvements.
Activity in five continents
Sigma Water Group ensures that it exports the 95% of its production and that it maintains a fully international strategy, with references and continuous supply on the five continents. The company has its own subsidiaries in Mexico, the United States, South America, Tunisia, and France.
Among its equipment are flotation systems for water treatment, both by dissolved air and by cavitation, as well as decentralized plants for biological treatment. Its solutions are applied in sectors such as food, pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetic, and paper, as well as in sanitary and domestic waters and in desalination projects.
In Europe, the firm is manufacturing dissolved air flotation equipment for one of the first desalination plants under construction in England. In Australia, it has participated in projects in the mining sector with the shipment of compact membrane bioreactors to treat wastewater from mining camps.
The reuse of water gains weight after the drought
The company's expansion is framed within a context marked in Catalonia by the drought until 2024 and by water use restrictions. In this scenario, Sigma Water Group maintains that reuse has a direct impact both economic and operational for the industry.
The company argues that, in addition to cost savings, these solutions can allow increasing production in those cases where there are limitations of mains water supply. In its opinion, that need is accentuated in periods of drought like the one recently experienced.
The company also demands regulatory changes to facilitate the use of regenerated or reused water in applications where, it maintains, technology already allows guaranteeing the required quality. Its priority is to expand the uses of this technology where water provides more value and to favor a framework that makes public and private investments in this area viable and justified.