Water Treatment in the Automotive Industry

Car Facts

In 2004, 44,228,000 passenger vehicles were manufactured Worldwide. Of these 40% were manufactured in Europe. In 2005, in the UK car manufacturing contributed 5.5% of GDP (£40bn). 1.6 million cars were manufactured in the UK in 2005. In 2005, car production contributed 11% of UK Exports (£19bn), larger than any other in the manufacturing sector. Surface finishing in the automotive industry is typified by the need to process large surface areas of parts through a relatively small number of process stages. read more...

Products

EWS (UK) Ltd are able to supply a wide range of water and waste water treatment plant to fulfil most water requirements associated with automotive production. Both reverse osmosis (RO) and ion exchange resin based demineralisers can be supplied to provide demineralised water for process rinsing.

Demineralisers designed by EWS (UK) Ltd for water recovery are also specifically designed to accommodate for this type of application, offering excellent inter-regeneration capacity and the facility for additional maintenance associated with this type of operation.

Bespoke effluent treatment plants (ETP) are tailor made to suit customer and site specific requirements and are typically PLC controlled with human-machine-interface (HMI) touch screen control and visual indication of plant operating condition.

For more information, see our products range.