Downlite sets up new water-saving initiative

23/09/2015
Performance down fill supplier Downlite has installed a new wastewater recovery system that it claims will it to recycle and reuse up to 99% of the water used to clean its products at its plant near Cincinnati. The company said it had taken this step “in response to growing concerns over water scarcity and increasingly stringent municipal water treatment requirements”.

Downlite’s processing facility in Ohio has the capacity to supply more than 20,000 kilos of down fill material per week, which requires a large volume of water. However, the company’s chief finance officer, Josh Werthaiser, said on announcing the new water recovery system that the initiative could save Downlite more than 200,000 cubic-metres of water each year.

It will work by collecting contaminated water, discharged from the plant’s washing operation, filter and treat it before returning the water to the system for reuse.