Drinking water<br>desalination
Wastewater<br>treatment
Onsite water<br>remediation
odour<br>removing

MORE WATER FOR LESS COST

With Filtralite® filter media, made of lightweight expanded clay aggregates, you can do more with less - more pure water with less energy, less space and without rebuilding existing facilities. Check out our solutions for water treatment:

Designed for drinking water plants and pretreatment for desalination, Filtralite® Pure is a filter media suitable for both physical filtration and biological treatment.

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Designed for wastewater treatment plants and treatment of industrial waters, Filtralite® Clean is a filter media suitable for both biological treatment and tertiary filtration.

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Filtralite® Nature has been designed for onsite water remediation, including treatment of effluent water and removal of phosphorus.

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Filtralite Air

Designed for efficiently removing odour, Filtralite Air is a premium filtering product suitable for air and gas purification plants.

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CASE STUDIES

Developed 20 years ago in cooperation with technical institutes and water treatment experts, based on the lightweight and porous characteristics of expanded clay, Filtralite® filter media has offered innovative solutions to water facilities worldwide for physical filtration and biological treatment.

Removing and refurbishing biofilters in Annecy (FR)

How Filtralite® Clean material was drained, refilled and replaced in 3 biological filters.

With FILTRALITE®, the Pedraza drinking water production plant improved the elimination of Iron and Manganese, while increasing production

The drinking water production plant, which carried out two backwashes per day and per filter with sand-anthracite filters, only needs, with Filtralite®, backwashes once every two or three days.

Odour treatment filter in Bogense biogas plant (DK)

Applying Filtralite® Air in a biological odour treatment filter is a simple and effective solution, allowing nature’s own bacteria to handle the purification.

Air purification at Novozymes Fermentation unit in Kalundborg (DK)

Quick and easy to implement Filtralite® Air 4-10 improved process and brought savings

Filtralite® Pure Mono-Multi in London (UK)

How Thames Water reinvented its fast sand filters

Two types of Filtralite® Pure filter beds at Gäddvik (SE)

Filtralite® Pure Mono-Multi is used both in rapid granular filtering beds for artificial recharge of groundwater and for filtering groundwater to produce drinking water.

Bedrichov(CZ) Drinking Water Treatment Plant

A farewell to sand filters

Filtralite® Clean at Kakolanmäki Wastewater Treatment Plant (Finland)

Filtralite removes half of the load of phosphorus and solid materials at Finland's third largest wastewater treatment plant.

Vestfjorden (NO) Wastewater Treatment Plant (Veas)

At the entrance of the Oslo fjord, VEAS cleans wastewater from 600.000 Oslovians.

Excellent results with Filtralite Mono Multi® at an industrial scale pilot in Llobregat (SP)

ATL started an industrial scale test in November 2018 in one of the 137 m3 sand filters of the Llobregat Drinking Water Treatment Plant. The objective was to validate, in situ, the operation of Filtralite® Mono Multi in comparison with sand filtration.

Fredrikstad (NO) Drinking Water Treatment Plant

Fredrikstad Waterworks in southeastern Norway has an annual water production of 15 millions m3 and supplies the municipalities of Fredrikstad and Hvaler.

Les Ponts de Cé (Angers), first plant in France with Filtralite Mono-Multi

Run lengths went from an average of 20 hours of filtration between two backwashes to up to 60 hours of filtration.

Biological removal of ammonia and manganese for Hong Kong (CN)

Process with reduced chlorine demand in Tai Po (Hong Kong)

Filtralite® at Beni Saf desalination plant: increasing production capacity and lowering OPEX

Replacement of sand by Filtralite® has shown to reduce productions losses due to frequent backwash, decrease water wasted for backwash and drop operating costs.
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At the Angers (France) drinking water treatment plant, the dual solution Filtralite Mono Multi was selected for the full first line of filtration.

In this video, you can follow the different steps of this project:

- Results from the full-scale pilot test

- Interview with the plant manager

- And the different steps from sand removal to its substitution by our dual-layer solution.

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