As the market for primary metals is cyclical and volatile, the industry needs to optimize the management of its resources.

This is why to ensure facilities operate efficiently and to maintain continuity in the manufacturing process, manufacturers looks to maintain a quantity and/or quality of water resources while at the same time controlling the environmental impact of their activities.

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies' expertise in the primary metals industry is used at all stages of the water treatment cycle :

• production and management of cooling water including chemical conditioning,
• production of boiler feed water,
• production of high quality process water,
• acid regeneration and acid effluent treatment of pickling lines,
• physico-chemical and biological applications to treat wastewater,
• treatment of waste and effluents containing hydrocarbons,
• treatment of smoke and dust from smelting furnaces and steelworks,
• treatment and removal of sludge using a range of different systems.