A recently published independent report by Lux Research has some really interesting news about the global wastewater treatment market. The report is titled “Sizing Up Advanced Wastewater Treatment” is authored by Senior Analyst, Brent Giles. The report concludes that the size of the advanced wastewater treatment market could be as much as $27.8 billion in 2012, with the majority of that coming from capital expenditures in the U.S. and China. Cities all over the world over seek to either replace old or add new facilities to process an additional 4.3 billion gallons a day and 94% of the international market is made up of existing plants needing expansion or replacement.

In our shorthand analysis, the technologies of three companies – Aqwise, Entex and Microvi Biotech – came away a clear lead in our comparative analysis. Each has significant market potential in both the developed and the developing world.

While Aqwise and Entex have huge market potential, so do all of their competitors. Even so, their particular approach to offering fixed or moving media as an alternative to traditional activated sludge has enormous market potential worldwide – especially fixed media, which is a technically simple compromise to activated sludge. Establishing or defending any IP for such a simple technique is more of a challenge. Fortunately, there’s plenty of market to go around.

We at Entex are not surprised by this information but we certainly are pleased that a completely independent study had such high compliments for our offering of both fixed and moving media, which is exactly the premise Entex was founded on eight years ago.