Takeda Lessines saves 600 million litres of water per year
In March 2021, the pharmaceutical company Takeda inaugurated a new wastewater recycling facility in Lessines. This investment will result in a 90% reduction in the consumption of drinking water at the site. This represents 600,000 cubic metres of water per year, equal to the average amount of drinking water consumed by almost 18,000 people. After treatment, the […]
Chemical companies save millions of litres of drinking water by switching to dock water from the port of Antwerp
A new desalination plant to be built in the port of Antwerp will pump, desalinate and purify brackish dock water from the beginning of 2024 into high-quality process water for the chemicals sector. As a result, chemical companies no longer need to use drinking water from the Albert Canal for certain production processes. In the […]
More than 50 chemical and pharmaceutical companies join sectoral action plan to use less water
More than 50 companies from the chemical and life sciences have participated in a one-year project to find out how they can save and reuse even more water. With this ‘Learning Network Water’, the sector federation essenscia wants to provide intensive guidance for Flanders companies and help them to map out their savings potential through action plans […]
Bayer Agriculture closes water cycle
Pharmaceutical and chemical group Bayer has commissioned a new water recycling facility. It will purify the waste water from the Antwerp production site and upgrade it to high-quality process water of an even better quality than drinking water. The recycled water is reused in various factory units: as drinking water, as demineralised water in certain […]