Expanding and strengthening its presence in the rapidly growing water and waste water business in India, the Mumbai-based A.T.E. Group has entered into a strategic partnership with the Germany-based Huber SE for marketing, sales and service of the state-of-the-art Huber products and solutions in the fields of water and waste water treatment. This brings the much acclaimed Huber technology within easy reach of Indian customers.

Established in 1834, Huber, a family owned company, has more than 175 years of experience with over 25,000 installations globally. Huber has unmatched experience and expertise in the field of water and waste water management and treatment. Huber is a formidable group with more than 60 subsidiaries, representative offices and agents worldwide. An innovator par excellence, Huber has invented and introduced the world famous Rotamat and Step Screens used for screening the solids from sewage and storm water channels. Huber has a range of solutions that can be applied in industrial & infrastructure projects, commercial complexes and townships for water treatment, sewage treatment, effluent treatment, storm water control & sludge treatment applications. The technologies can also be used to effectively increase treatment capacities of existing units with little or no additional civil works.

A.T.E. is a seven decades old, multi-faceted engineering group operating in a number of segments like textile engineering, clean technology, flow technology, print and packaging solutions and machine-to-machine solutions. A.T.E., which also represents ABS Pumps – the world leader in waste

Welcoming the tie-up with A.T.E., Mr. Georg Huber, CEO, Huber, said that he saw A.T.E. as the right partner for Huber and considered it as an important step for Huber in an important market.

Mr. Anuj Bhagwati, Managing Director of A.T.E. Enterprises, said he saw this association as not only an excellent opportunity for the companies, but also for the country (India) for the conservation of its precious water resources. He further said that as both Huber and A.T.E. have similar values, similar working styles and a high level of commitment to technology and the environment, he expected the co-operation to be a very successful one.

With this tie-up with Huber, A.T.E. can provide a full spectrum of equipment required in a waste water treatment plant from transfer of untreated waste water to all processes in the treatment to transfer of fully treated water, i.e., for water and waste water pumping, coarse and fine screens, screening treatment, grit separation and treatment, mixing of waste water for blending and suspension, sludge transfer and treatment, biological treatment of waste water using conventional diffused aeration with submersible aerators or compressors and diffusers and with latest technology of MBR, micro screenings and filtration.