Industrial Wastewater Treatment · Since 1997
For nearly three decades we have helped electroplaters, refineries, mines, and construction sites turn contaminated process water into water clean enough to recycle — or discharge to municipal sewer within regulation.
Our Technologies
We work with the two treatment chemistries that consistently outperform on heavy-metal contaminated water — an electrical process and a chemical one. Often we use them together.
Electrical
Electrocoagulation. Passing electrical current through contaminated water destabilizes suspended and dissolved metals, forming an oxide sludge that filters out cleanly and passes leach tests.
Chemical
Silica micro-encapsulation. Specialized chemistry binds heavy metals into a stable, sand-like silica matrix that strengthens over time — the opposite of conventional polymer treatments that degrade.
Independent Lab Results
Industries Served
Anywhere process water carries heavy metals, oils, or fine suspended solids that won't settle on their own.
Nickel, hard chrome, chromate, zinc plating — rinse water and spent solutions.
02Wash and process water with copper, lead, zinc, and phosphates.
03SAGD process water, produced water, boiler blow-down, oily wastewater.
04Mine drainage, tailings water, metals recovery from process streams.
05Glacial-till silty water from gravel washing, site dewatering, stormwater.
06Plant effluent with high bacterial load — APC, coliform, salmonella.
07Floor sumps, caustic tanks, parts wash — mixed metals and surfactants.
08Site runoff with turbidity and heavy metals from construction or industrial yards.
Recent Work
Treatability reports and field installations, with raw vs. treated lab data from independent labs — Caro, Eco-Tech, and International Metallurgical & Environmental.
Specialty Plater · Santa Barbara, CA
A specialty metal plater installed a 3-gpm E-Cell and now operates with a zero-discharge permit. Operating cost: $0.002 per gallon.
Chromate Plating Shop
Two-step Cr⁶⁺ reduction and KB-1 silica encapsulation on dark blue chromate process water. Full lab certificate.
Heavy Oil · Northern Alberta
Treatability study on combined boiler blow-down and SAGD process water from a Calgary-based heavy oil producer.
Equipment
Skid-mount E-Cell units, complete batch treatment tanks, filter presses from 3 to 7 cubic feet, sludge dewatering equipment. Western Canada dealer for Eco Industries filter presses.
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Get in Touch
Send us a description of your waste stream — volume, source, what's in it — and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help.