The AdP VALOR – Serviços Ambientais, S.A., a company from the Águas de Portugal, a group of water utilities that plays a structural role in the environment sector in Portugal and spanning the fields of water supply and wastewater sanitation.

The core AdP Group activity involves the integrated management of the urban water cycle and spanning all of its respective stages, ranging from water abstraction, treatment and distribution for public consumption to the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of urban and industrial wastewaters, including their reuse. The Group is responsible for the management of several thousand infrastructures, including more than 150 water treatment plants, 1 000 wastewater treatment plants, and 2 500 water and wastewater pumping stations.

AdP VALOR is AdP´s Group business tool for accelerating innovation and implementing the circular economy, developing new business areas and products and strengthening the resilience, quality and efficiency of the AdP utilities operations with a positive impact at the external level, specifically through providing the sector, both nationally and internationally, with the technical know-how accumulated over the last two decades. This context justifies the relevance of being part of this project as end user.

Website: www.adp.pt

Operating in the industrial and human water treatment sector since 1961, Enkrott laces science at the center of attention, developing innovative technologies, products and engineering solutions, capable of responding to an increasingly demanding market, in which there are no two customers with identical needs.

The know-how and human capital are our assets. It is through high technological and engineering skills that we reach the most suitable solutions for the challenge presented by each client.

Regarding the OZONE4WATER project, Enkrott’s has a high expertise in the design, project and implement ozone solutions for water and wastewater treatment, justifying the relevance of being part of this project as technology developer.

Website: http://www.enkrott.com/EN/

Simbiente – Environmental Engineering and Management is a company focused on research, development, innovation and services. Resulting from activities of researchers and consultants, Simbiente was founded in 2004 as a spin-off company of University of Minho.

The company’s products and services are organized in seven fields of work:

1. Water Resources Management;
2. Waste Management;
3. Territorial Resources, Uses and Risks Management;
4. Environmental and Sustainability Assessment;
5. Ecosystems Conservation and Valorization;
6. Marine, Coastal and Port Management;
7. Research, Development and Innovation.

Simbiente has a R&D unit, created to integrate new ideas and existing and emerging methodologies and technologies into projects that generate added value, working along national and international partners.

Simbiente’s experience in sustainability assessment and market uptake of new technologies based on life cycle approaches (including environmental, economic and social aspects) will be an asset for the project.

Website: http://www.simbiente.com