The ALMAWATECH Group, with its core brands ALMAWATECH and BHU, develops, supplies and installs water and wastewater treatment plants exclusively for environmental protection, sustainability andCO2 savings. Around ten customer plants with different standards for water and wastewater treatment are built every year. The aim of each plant is to enable or improve water and wastewater purification and to meet the latest target parameters for water quality. Where existing plants are replaced, the aim is to achieve better purification results and reduce energy consumption and waste generation.
In addition to wastewater purification and water treatment, some of the plants are also used to generate energy from wastewater, in particular through fermentation. The ALMA BHU GMR plant is used for the fermentation of highly concentrated wastewater from the food industry. The new plants added each year can each save 1 to 2 million kW/h of energy and thus reduceCO2 emissions by 200 to 400 tons. With an average plant service life of 25 years, this amounts to 5,000 to 10,000 tons. At the same time, the ALMAWATECH Group only emits 30 to 50 tons ofCO2 per year in its activities from planning to construction and production and finally installation of the systems. That is less than 2% of the annual savings achieved with the equipment.
Based on the sustainability guidelines agreed in autumn 2020, the heating technology at the main site in Babenhausen was converted to heat pump technology and direct gas radiator heating. The electricity-powered units are operated exclusively with green electricity. The gas-powered radiant heating is designed as pump heating and reduces gas consumption by 50 %.
