Many service providers specialise either in engineered solutions or chemistry. ImproChem managing director Louis Du Toit explains how his company is capacitated to bring the two disciplines together for improved cost, risk, and environmental efficiencies.

What are some of ImproChem’s broad product and service categories for the industrial and mine water treatment markets?

LDT  As a company, we are split into a couple of business divisions: Industrial, Energy, Public Water, and Mining. Each of these different divisions can be further broken down into different specialised segments.

For example, in Mining, we focus on the various mining segments (gold, coal, etc.) and within our Industrial division, we work with food and beverage customers as well as those from the lighter industries.

We then structure our offerings for each of these segments into basic water treatment, with the focus on cooling water, compressors and fridge plants, steam generation, and process water treatment.

We also focus on solid-liquid separation, specifically for underground water treatment, which focuses on solids removal, and using clarification and thickening to protect pumps and other components. This reduces electrical costs as well as operation and maintenance overheads.

We also offer various equipment solutions; among these unique offerings to the mining industry are our mini-ROs – portable reverse osmosis (RO) plants – which have operated exceptionally in providing potable water to mine employees.

Industrial is very similar. Broadly, we offer chemicals and solutions for boiler water applications, cooling water applications, pretreatment, and effluent treatment.

We also offer mechanical solutions, which include RO, ultrafiltration, sludge removal, filters, softeners, and various package plants, as well as custom-designed plants. These are often used for the recycling and reuse of water, minimising clients’ operating costs and water use footprint.

Connected to this is an array of wastewater services, where we assist clients to be compliant in a given regulatory environment.

How does ImproChem reduce downtime and deliver greater customer value in these sectors?

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