Manufacturing

At Ruddle Merz Water Services we have many years of experience of helping customers cut costs across the manufacturing sector, ranging from international companies to SMEs.

Our experience shows that even the best run sites offer opportunities to reduce water and waste water costs and to optimise performance.

Typical areas to target include cleaning systems, reduction of wastage in process operations, recycling opportunities and minimising the generation of waste water.

An initial Bill Analysis exercise forms the best starting point for a full review of your water and waste water costs. This will help us to identify any overcharges on your water bills and to ensure that you are getting the best possible deal from your water company in terms of the most appropriate tariffs for your water usage, sewerage and Trade Effluent. It will also enable us to identify other opportunities to reduce your costs and will also reveal any unusual levels of water consumption for further investigation.

Our other services can follow on from the initial bill analysis exercise, or can be carried out separately to address specific areas. We can target potential problem areas like Leakage and we can also identify the cost savings you could achieve through Water Conservation.

A full understanding of your water use and waste water generation on site is vital both to effective management of costs in this area and also as a means to achieve and demonstrate compliance with environmental legislation and other standards. Our Process Auditing experts will deliver an in depth analysis of your water use whether in specific areas or across your whole site, together with practical recommendations for cost reductions and performance improvements.

Environmental Compliance is vital for the manufacturing sector whether in terms of compliance with the requirements of legislation or meeting the growing demand from customers and other stakeholders for demonstrable “Green” credentials. We can help you to ensure that your site delivers leading edge environmental performance in terms of water usage, waste water generation and disposal and carbon impact.

Effective Waste Water Management will save your business money by reducing the amount of waste water your site generates and minimising the strengths and volumes of effluent you discharge to sewer. We can also help you optimise the performance of any waste water treatment facilities on site and we can deliver a range of services from sampling to the installation of full scale effluent treatment plants. As well as helping you with your site’s effluent, we can also look at surface water discharges from your site to minimise the amount you pay for this service.

Our Mapping Service will provide you with vital information for future leakage detection, site expansion plans, and can give you valuable material to assist you in gaining ISO 14001 Environmental Accreditation.

If you are expanding or altering your site we can provide Civil Engineering Services to deliver all forms of on-site water and waste water infrastructure installations and repair.