Ohio treatment plant will help Downlite save millions of litres of water

06/01/2017
Supplier of performance fill material Downlite has installed a new wastewater recovery system at its down and feather processing plant near Cincinatti. The new facility will allow the company to recycle and reuse up to 99% of the water used to wash its down and feather fills, saving up to 150 million litres of water annually.

Ohio-based water-treatment specialists Artesian Capital Partners worked with Downlite to design and construct the new system and now operates it off-site.
 
On announcing the completion of the project, Downlite’s chief finance officer, Josh Werthaiser, said: “Water is the new oil. With growing concerns over water scarcity and increasingly stringent municipal water-treatment requirements, we took on this significant and complex initiative, which took over a year, in our endeavour to become a greener company.”
 
The plant has the capacity to supply more than 45 tonnes of clean and ready down fill material per week and it takes a large volume of water to make sure the raw materials have been sufficiently cleaned and sterilised.