By Ganesh Kalidasan
Panta Rei of Italy has announced its partnership with LRT India, the largest manufacturer of ring travellers in the world, catering to the requirements of over 3,500 spinning mills in over 35 countries worldwide, to offer complete solutions in water treatment in India.
LRT is a group company of Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW) of Coimbatore and is the global leader in the field of ring travellers. LRT has other divisions which include the Foundry Division manufacturing carbon and stainless steel castings, Engineering Division with sub-contract operations in the field of machining, Machine Building Division that manufactures CNC profile cutting machines, Spinning Division for procurement of cotton and selling of yarn), Windmill Division for generation of wind energy, and the Agency Division to market Lakshmi Caipo slub and core yarn attachments in India.
Panta Rei is involved in designing and construction of water and waste water treatment plants. Thanks to a significant experience in the field, this Italian firm focuses its business all over the world.
The high-tech designs and the plants already built make Panta Rei one of the world-class leading companies in the water and waste water treatment field. Its qualified staff have developed their experience through the design, installation and start up of several water treatment plants worldwide which are currently running under the efficient management of the satisfied clients.
Once commissioned, the plant will run automatically, thanks to a programmable logic controller (PLC) that manages all the equipments of the plant, and the operator can interact with it thanks to an “operator panel” in touch screen technology.
As a matter of fact, Panta Rei not only offers water treatment plants but a complete product through its total care contracts with the “service level agreements” that ensure the best technical support as well as the secured supply of the best equipments and spare parts.
LRT-Panta Rei can offer total solutions in water treatment in textiles, which include salt and water recovery along with the biological treatment plants. The services offered include water and waste water treatment plants, after-sales support, feasibility studies, maintenance, and procurement of some equipments.
Panta Rei has installations worldwide. It has installed around 25 textile effluent treatment plants for textile dyeing industries in Bangladesh and many more in other countries like Center of America (Honduras, Dominican Republic, Guatemala), Mexico, North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Egypt), Bangladesh, India, the UAE (Dubai mainly), Iran and Bulgaria.
Panta Rei has strong partnerships with the main producers of equipments of the water sector in the world (Flygt, Grundfos, ABS and KSB for pumps, mixers and aerators, Siemens for electrical equipments, Robuschi for blowers, Endress & Hauser and Hach Lange for automatic measurement instruments, etc.
Some of the main advantages of Panta Rei products are flexibility in pricing, solutions with flexibility to adapt to specific user requests, complete engineering, low operating costs, minimum operational requirements, possibility of changing the operating mode of the installation according to the different parameters of injection, and support and maintenance.
Panta Rei is well aware of the fact that India is a key global player and would like to help all its customers save money while guaranteeing better environmental conditions to such an important region.
The partnership with Panta Rei water solutions will allow LRT to explore new opportunities in water and waste water treatment business not just within the textile vertical but to a variety of industries present in this part of the globe.