Engineers in mix for huge China order
AN ENGINEERING company from Macclesfield has supplied its biggest-ever order to mainland China.
Statiflo, based on Wood Street, has shipped three giant channel mixers to the Bailonggang wastewater treatment plant in Shanghai, where a major expansion project is underway.
The plant will become the largest of its kind in Asia and the new equipment will help it process more than half of Shanghai’s waste water.
The Series 900 STMC channel mixers supplied by Statiflo are 5.8 metres high and 4.35 metres wide and are being used for mixing sodium hypochlorite into wastewater for disinfection.
It was a deal worth a six-figure sum and the Asia-Pacific market is a fast-growing one for Statiflo because of the large investment in the area to improve water infrastructure.
Statiflo has expanded its presence in the region with new business partners in Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, Hong Kong and mainland China.
Paul Buck, general sales manager, said: “A delegation from Shanghai Municipal Sewerage Company visited Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong, where we have an installation of channel mixers for the same application. They were impressed by the technology and wanted to use the Statiflo Series 900 channel mixers in the expansion of the Bailonggang wastewater treatment plant.
“The equipment will efficiently mix the sodium hypochlorite through the wastewater, achieving the process requirements while also saving chemicals in comparison to dosing without the use of a channel mixer.”
Bailonggang, near Pudong International Airport, is owned by the Shanghai Municipal Sewerage Company.
Statiflo worked with its Chinese business partner ATAL Engineering to fulfil the order.