VA Teknik i Borås AB

VA Teknik is a Swedish Company whose name is well known on the Scandinavian Water Treatment market. The company is market leader in Sweden within sludge scrapers and other equipment for sedimentation tanks. VA Teknik has delivered sludge scrapers all over the world to more than 2500 tanks during the last 30 years.

Our salesmen, technicians and constructors are always ready to help you with your needs of a safe sedimentation and trustworthy equipment for sludge removal. Rectangular or circular tanks make no difference for us! We build and we install.

Water and Waste Water Treatment

Swedish water treatment has a strong international reputation. VA Tekniks board of directors has pronounced a long term goal to maintain and build on a level of quality which exceeds this reputation.

The focus lies on increasing our business opportunities for products developed by ourselves and those whom we are resellers for.
We have supplied more than 2500 tanks with sludge removal equipment during the last 30 years.

Sludge scraping technology

Sludge separates in sedimentation tanks. Those tanks are either rectangular or circular. The type of tank is often decided by the tradition in that specific area for example in the Scandinavian countries it is very common with rectangular sedimentation tanks.

Rectangular tanks are equipped with chain-scrapers or wire-carts. The most common solution in circular tanks is the peripheral driven rotating sludge scraper with a service platform.

Besides the sludge scrapers most of the sedimentation tanks are equipped with different types of weirs and pipes all depending on process, shape of tank and which scraper is used.

Our specialty is automatic, gear motor driven scum pipes for rectangular sedimentation tanks.

Lamella sedimentation

An important substitute to the traditional sedimentation technique is lamella sedimentation.
Together with our collaboration partner GEA 2H (Germany) we can offer you TUBEdek®, a highly flexible sedimentation program for circular as well as rectangular tanks.

Trickling filter equipment

Rotary distributors and media for trickling filters gives you the opportunity of complete deliveries of both the media and the machines or just media or machines, all this according to your demands as the customer.

The Rotary Distributor is developed by us and it has adjustable cups (sprinklers) and an easy access maintenance hatch, this has proven to be a very secure product along with GEA 2H’s medias PLASdek® och BIOdek® for trickling filters. The gathered competence of VA Teknik and GEA 2H provides you as customer with the best possible comfortable and reliable solution when you are about to refurbish of build your trickling filters.

VA Teknik has become what it is today from a winding history.

It all started with the engineering company ”Ingenjörsfirman Åke Carlsson” founded by Åke Carlsson in 1965. Åke had been active with constructing different types of machines for all kinds of water treatment plants for several years within a workshop called “Borås Mekaniska Verkstad”.
When he started on his own Åke and his engineers let their machines get built at the workshop “Tage Björklunds Mekaniska”.

In 1972 Zander & Ingeström bought the company and it merged into their Water & Waste Water division. At this point Sweden was investing in many new Treatment Plants and the company grew it self into a strong position in Sweden.

In 1986 the structure within Z&I changed and the Water & Wastewater Treatment was separated and became Zander & Ingeström - VA Teknik i Borås AB. At this point VA Teknik was an established partner in Sweden and Europe lied in front to be concurred. Continuous collaborations during the 80’s made VA Teknik a known and respected partner in the rest of the Europe as well.
In 1988 the name changed to VA Teknik i Borås AB, yet there still was a strong connection to Z&I.

When Hydria Invest acquired the company they started a reorganization of the different companies within the group and amongst other the name changed to “Björklundsgruppen”, during this period there floated a lot of water under the bridge and still today some know us as that.

In 2003 the name was changed back to VA Teknik i Borås AB which was the best and most describing name of the company and its activity.

Here we are today and today we have the world as our market.