With rising emphasis on sustainable manufacturing, wastewater management has become a challenge across industries. It is no different in the case of the textile industry. One company that has been setting newer benchmarks in the area of water treatment is Gradiant India Private Ltd.
The difference and clear advantage that this Chennai-based company offers over other traditional water treatment companies is multifaceted. Firstly, Gradiant’s patented award-winning technologies created at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and proven across diverse industries are advanced, sustainable, and able to handle complex industrial wastewater leading to better results including ZLD. The company’s commercialized technologies, Carrier Gas Extraction (CGE) and Counterflow Reverse Osmosis (CFRO) are comparatively better from both cost and environmental standpoint than any other thermal or membrane-based technology on the market. Secondly, most large-scale water treatment companies provide off the shelf products to their customers, but Gradiant provides boutique customized end-to-end solutions that focus on the most difficult effluent water with sustainability and efficiency in mind.
So, how does it do it? The company does it by working one on one with its clients- testing their water at its in-house testing facility, examining their environmental and economic requirements with regional experts, and designing a solution that is 100% centered on them and their needs. This saves the client on cost, energy, maintenance, and meets their environmental standards well beyond traditional water treatment company’s techniques and services.
A recent example of the company’s expertise in providing water treatment solutions is available in the form of a ZLD system that it had commissioned for a textile manufacturing unit which included the dyeing process in India. The company had used the carrier gas extraction technology for concentrating brine at the project. Successfully commissioned in 2019, the plant had the capability to handle a capacity of 200 m3/day, with the salt production being 1.2 tons/day of Glauber salt. Importantly, the textile client gets to pay per KLD of wastewater treated.
Furthermore, since the company’s engineering solutions involve a digital automated approach its team of engineers and scientists can in real time remotely watch and maintain the water treatment systems so that plants don’t need to shut down completely during times such as this with Covid-19. Moreover, since Gradiant is an end-to-end solutions provider meaning the company can handle everything from the design, build, ownership, and operation so that the customers need not involve multiple vendors making the operation chain seamless and greater quality control. More accountability, more efficiency, better greener technologies means more savings for the customers and the environment.
Gradiant has its Indian headquarters in Chennai, with proficiency in Design, Research, Process, Engineering, Project Execution and O&M. Operations is supported by in-house lab facility. The sales & marketing team of the company operates out of Chennai, Coimbatore, Pune, and New Delhi. Gradiant India’s Managing Director, Mr. S. Ravichandran has over 30 years of experience in the water & wastewater industry. Prior to Gradiant, he worked at various multinational organizations such as Praj Industries, Ecolab, Nalco, and Ion Exchange. At Gradiant India, he brings his wealth of knowledge and understanding of the Indian and international wastewater landscape to the forefront and has built a strong team that backs him. Gradiant India is focused on its vision of enabling industrial growth in harmony with nature.