RWO to Put Changes on Display at SMM
New generation of Oily Water Separators / CleanBallast with Screen filter option / Extended Service Toolbox
In April, Bremen-based RWO announced a 30% revenue-increase in its core business, and also the ballast water business comes up with some important news. RWO said some more things have changed since then and can be seen at this year’s SMM in Hamburg.
“The RWO Bonus – that’s how we call it - is the result of a careful market analysis and important talks to our partners and customers” said Andreas Rosebrock, Sales Director at RWO. “Since 1975 we have been manufacturing high-quality products for maritime water management and our portfolio has grown to cover nearly the whole range of water treatment applications onboard a ship. In discussions with our customers we have seen that there are many topics keeping shipowners and shipyards busy, but they cannot be solved with a good piece of technology alone. It is time that our colleagues throughout the maritime world benefit from 40 years of expertise in water treatment in another way than just the technological part.”
With the “RWO Bonus” the company has not just developed another service product. It is more like a toolbox with tailor-made equipment, and every tool is developed along customer’s needs. First shipowners have already shown interest in the concept and the company is confident to establish a good and sustainable partnership with the European shipping world. “The feedback so far has been very well,” Rosebrock said, “and every discussion and every meeting plays a part in contributing to improve and extend our offers day by day.”
A first outcome of these discussions can be seen at RWO’s booth A1.218. Following the demand for higher flexibility in installations and retrofits, RWO has completed its CleanBallast system with a new filter option. The new screen filter comes with a smaller footprint while at the same time producing excellent effluent results. The piping efforts have been reduced and also the demand for installed power. Future customers benefit from a different cost profile compared to the DiskFilter used so far. But the tried-and-tested DiskFilter also has its advantages. Especially in water with high sediment load the robust system is not limited in is performance and can absorb the workload caused by particles and dirt. The automatic backflushing of the filter ensures long lifetime and slow operational cost. RWO’s customers now have a free choice, being supported by RWO’s experts to determine what is suitable for their retrofit- and newbuild- projects.
RWO has also revamped its oily water separator and presents the new OWS-COM at their booth. In June the company celebrated its 14,000th order, being market leader in oil water separation for some years already. The new separator is much more compact than its predecessor, maintenance and handling have been eased with constructional refinement. Thereby the tried-and-tested treatment principle remained untouched.
Since May the company has a new logo, now visibly connected to its mother company Veolia Water Technologies. RWO has been a subsidiary of Veolia since 2004.
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