We’re delighted to announce that Mark Willson has now joined IFS / Clearwater Controls as Business Development Manager for UK and Northern Europe (click here to see Mark on LinkedIn). Mark joins us from Xylem Water Solutions, having previously worked in various other roles in the UK water and engineering sector. He will work across the UK and Northern European markets, for Clearwater and the various other IFS brands including Overwatch, Stancor, BJM Pumps and Dreno. Welcome Mark!
We are very excited to announce that Clearwater Controls and our US subsidiary DERAGGER Inc have been acquired by Industrial Flow Solutions, a portfolio company of May River Capital.
Industrial Flow Solutions are headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, USA and specialise in the design, manufacture, sales and service of pumping and fluid solutions across the industrial, commercial and municipal waste water sector.
Clearwater Controls will retain its company name and brand, and it will be business as usual. The acquisition will hopefully provide huge opportunities and resources for Clearwater to expand its portfolio, and to continue to develop all of its existing customer and supplier relationships.
Industrial Flow Solutions will also be incorporating the DERAGGER PRO pump station technology across its brands in order to bring intelligent efficiency to nearly all of the Industrial Flow Solutions product lines.
We are delighted to share this news, and look forward to exciting times ahead.
For a full copy of the press release, please click here.
Clearwater Controls are very pleased to announce that they have a vacancy for an Internship at their offices and workshop in Cumbernauld, Glasgow.
The internship will be for a minimum 3 month period and will be for an applicant who is keen to work in the water/waste water industry learning about pump stations, pump station controls, intelligent anti-ragging solutions and smart data/digital solutions.
Subject to Covid restrictions the work will mainly be on-site at our Cumbernauld premises, but there will be flexibility for remote working.
Interested applicants should apply to mail@clearwatercontrols.co.uk
Off the back of our recent WIN at the Vibes Scottish Environment Business Awards, watch a film about the DERAGGER and why we won such a prestigious award.
This month Pumps & Systems magazine has a double-page spread all about our DERAGGER, which is also currently the main feature on their homepage.
Click this link to read the article online, or click here to download the article in PDF format.
During 2018 Northumbrian Water installed two new DERAGGER+ units. In Sunny Brow (Crow) they delivered an estimated cost saving of £12,000 per year. This station used to frequently rag and had been run with proactive weekly lift & clean visits in order to keep on top of the ragging. Once the DERAGGER was activated, these could be scaled back as they were no longer required.
The Fens (Hartlepool) was referred to by staff as a “non blocker”, however with the DERAGGER installed here it delivered efficiency savings of 20.24% on one pump, and 8.75% on the other pump. At this site we also tracked a significantly more stable current with the DERAGGER, meaning a strong likelihood that the DERAGGER will also extend pump life.
You can download each case study in PDF format using the links above, or by clicking on the relevant image below:
From all of us here at Clearwater Controls we hope you have a great Christmas.
As we reflect on 2018, it’s certainly been a busy year for us:
As we look forward to 2019, we wish you and your families a happy and prosperous New Year.
On the back of our independent DERAGGER trail with United Utilities and Wessex Water, overseen by Water Research Centre (WRc), WWT Editor James Brocket spoke to Clearwater MD Simon Crompton and below is the full article.
And we’re even WWT’s pick in their “Good month for…” column too!
Clearwater Controls today won a major environmental award, yet another accolade for our DERAGGER technology and how it can prevent blockages, reduce energy consumption and reduce environmental damage from sewage spillages.
The VIBES Awards are now in their 19th year, run in collaboration by SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency), Scottish Water, Scottish Enterprise, Energy Saving Trust and many others.
Clearwater Controls beat strong competition in the Environmental Product or Service category, and here are Simon and Graham with the amazing trophy!
More information about the impact our DERAGGER can have, can be found in the recent WRc independent study available at: https://clearwatercontrols.co.uk/wrcreport/
WRc research on success of DERAGGER could prove critical as BBC Breakfast news and Radio 4 (Costing the Earth) highlight impact of wet wipes on sewage network.
The BBC reported that of the ‘flushable’ wipes tested in the UK to-date, not one has passed the industry tests. Here at Clearwater, we support the “3 P’s” approach, however this has been going on for years, and no matter how much is done to educate the public some people are always going to flush things they shouldn’t down the toilet – non-flushable wipes, sanitary products or other items. In fact, another research study recently announced says 39% of women admit flushing things they shouldn’t!
Luckily our DERAGGER doesn’t discriminate, and it is proven to keep pumps running clean. It’s therefore the low cost way to prevent pump blockages which cause back-ups and spills, which in turn cause such distress to customers and environmental damage. And it’s proven to reduce energy consumption and extend asset life as well!
Find out more from this WRc Study into the DERAGGER: https://clearwatercontrols.co.uk/wrcreport/
See the BBC News article at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46188354
Watch the full Radio 4 programme at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00013qz
Radio 4’s Costing the Earth programme included the below quote:
Andrew Drinkwater, WRc: “The big problem really is that the majority of sewage flooding…is caused because the sewer or pumping station has got blocked because somebody has put something down that is inappropriate…a baby wipe or a wet wipe.
Furthermore, the majority of occasions when a watercourse get polluted with sewage because a sewer has overflowed or a pumping station has got stopped working, again is because somebody has flushed something down the toilet…which has blocked the sewer or caused the pump to jam.”