Manage your wastewater efficiently

MIE Solutions is a management, ISO and environmental solutions consultancy on all types of quality and environmental management systems. The company also specialises in water treatment systems, especially the treatment of textile effluent.

Water treatment systems

Following the recent implementation of environmental standards by governments, the need for efficient wastewater management has never been more important. Simply meeting the required legislation has a significant add-on cost. MIE Solutions is ideally placed to project manage all your effluent treatment requirements.

The company will survey your site and advise on the most efficient form of treatment for your particular situation. It also advises on storage of effluent and heat recovery and will liaise with all the relevant bodies ensuring full compliance with environmental legislation.

The company has many years of hands-on experience in the testing, planning, installation and commissioning of a major and highly successful water recovery system. This results in highly attractive annual savings with a significant payback. To achieve this payback it is necessary to treat and recycle this precious commodity water. Returned volumes above 90% are achievable. It is also possible in some cases to achieve zero discharge.

Water recovery in the textile industry

Large amounts of process water are used in the textile industry throughout the world. Continuing environmental and legal pressures, together with recent shortages of good quality water, is driving industry to seek cost-effective recycling solutions.

Crossflow membrane filtration and colour inactivation technologies can:

• provide in excess of 90% hot water recovery at process temperature

• offer better security of water supply at a consistent quality and temperature for reuse

• reduce process operational costs involving softening, heating, cooling and disposal

• address effluent issues such as colour, pesticides and organo-phosphates

• reduce impact on factory space by having minimal footprint.

Management systems

The need for management systems has grown in the last 20 years, and so it is important that these systems are implemented and documented correctly.

MIE Solutions has nearly 20 years of experience in planning, implementing, auditing and maintaining management systems.

Dependent on which system you require, whether it is ISO9001:2000 QMS, ISO14001EMS or SA8000 Social Accountability, the company's technical personnel visit your premises and write your manuals to the systems you already use. Effectively, it produces a bespoke set of documentation, which is the actual way in which your organisation works. The company will also train personnel as it documents systems, so that all the relevant people in your organisation are able to manage the systems themselves.

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