• Smaller footprint (resulting in lower capital costs).
• Positive answer to stringent regulations (present and future). Especially the new regulation promulgated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), with the new Long-Term Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT1ESWTR), for microbial control.
• Less chemicals are needed (safer waters), and therefore less peripheral equipment to store, handle, distribute, meter, and pump chemicals (lower operation and maintenance costs).
• Chemical treatment (like the use of chlorine) can create problematic compounds for the human health known as Disinfection-By-Products (DBP). These compounds are formed by the interaction of chlorine and natural organic matter that can be found in raw water.
• Automation from remote locations.
• Flexibility and selectivity in removing the whole range of suspended and dissolved substances that can be present in source water at very competitive costs.

Benefits of our materials for the low-pressure water market:

Mechanical benefits:

• Very good control of the pore size and pore size distribution
• High membrane strength
• Good film-forming properties

Chemical benefits:

• Outstanding stability to various pH (from 1 to 13, depending on the resin)
• Excellent hydrolysis stability
• Resistance against hydrochloric acid
• Our polymers are soluble in commercially available solvents

Thermal benefits:

• Better temperature resistance

Production benefits:

• Lot to lot consistency
• Reliability
• Easy to process