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Purac proposes cleaner water and energy solutions

Jonas Fack, managing director

Putting environmental protection among the main thrusts of its five-year development plans, the Chinese government is actively seeking solutions to remedy growing pollution concerns and ensure the well-being of its public.

Environmental engineering company Purac has been instrumental in effecting change in China, helping develop its wastewater treatment capacity and technology. Through soft loans and financial aid extended to China from Scandinavian and Nordic countries, Purac has worked on numerous turnkey projects there since 1994.

One of the projects stemming from soft loans is the construction of the Gaobeidian sewage treatment plant, one of the largest in the world. The Gaobeidian plant has the capacity to process the wastewater of about 4 million residents. It generates 1 million cubic metres of treated industrial and agricultural wastewater and contributes to alleviating water shortages.

Increasing its contribution to China's environmental reform, Purac also brought green energy expertise, supplying biogas production plants powered by waste.

"We have tough regulations in Sweden for clean energy. This has challenged us to be always a step ahead in developing innovative technologies and processes," says managing director Jonas Fack. "We provide tomorrow's clean water and clean energy solutions today."

Purac's expertise continues to be in high demand on the mainland. Purac backed the Chongqing biogas plant that converts restaurant waste into electricity. The facility is developed to process 500 tonnes of food waste daily and generate 5 megawatts of electricity yearly. It serves as a hallmark of Purac's biogas technology.

Its continued commitment to China motivated Purac to establish a subsidiary in Beijing, Purac Environmental Systems, which has received many awards in China for being the most successful clean tech green energy company locally.

"We want to double our presence in China and increase biogas plants to at least 3,000 by 2015," Fack says.