Produce more but do not use more water

Drinking Water is one of the most precious goods on our planet. Using as little as possible in production helps everybody.

Drinking Water is one of the most precious goods on our planet. Sustainable technologies try to use as little as possible of it. An example: Atofina doubled the production of polypropylene in its plant in Feluy/Belgium, but put the target that they would need only 10% more water. How can you achieve this? The answer was complex: Cooling towers for the reactors and the extrusion unit are no longer cooled with water, the other cooling systems use more recycled and demineralized water. This also resulted in a reduction of 2/3 of chlorid and sulfate discharges during production.