Purac AB
Purac is a world leader in the treatment of wastewater, process water and drinking water and in the innovative treatment of biological waste. We possess broad expertise and experience with our proprietary and licensed technologies and innovative solutions that increase efficiency and more economical operation. Purac supplies, builds and deploys systems for industrial and municipal customers throughout the world. Purac has so far deployed more than 4,000 contracts in over 70 countries. We have decades of proven experience and offers turnkey installations with function guarantees. We design our solutions using the latest IT tools, methods and technologies.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Water Treatment
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Turnover:
- 10,000,000 - 100,000,000 €
About Us
Few other companies can compete with our list of successfully completed contracts. We have customers with widely differing conditions and each plant is unique. Therefore, we are proud of our ability to adapt facilities and practices to local, technical, legal, traditional and cultural conditions. Purac constantly developing new processes to increase efficiency, reduce operating and maintenance costs and to shrink the size of the holdings.
Vision and Values
Our vision
We deliver tomorrow optimal solutions for clean water and biogas today!
Where we are with the future mean that we are a step ahead and designing systems and solutions to meet future requirements standings today. Optimal solutions aimed at that with our knowledge and experience meets customers' real needs in a way that takes into account the whole picture - technology, economy, quality and durability.
We create confidence in that we can and want to understand the customer's real needs - we deliver what we promise!
Our core values
We are professional, experienced, are innovative and work together in a positive spirit to create job satisfaction, profitable growth and value for the customer.
Our core values are : Commitment, Trust and Joy
Commitment
We are committed people who are part of each other's work. Therefore, we strive to create good conditions for being able to do as good a job as possible. Thanks to the commitment of our employees, we can solve the challenges we face.
Confidence
We enjoy what we do and continue the begun work, and reconnect along the way. If any are not as we imagined, we take the consequences, solve the problem and take lessons. We give our employees a lot of confidence because we believe in the responsibility of every employee.
Joy
We feel a joy to be able to contribute to a positive, sustainable development. Our joy also means to be proud of their work, for what we do actually mean something for the future - a better quality of life and a better environment for our children and future generations.
We work in an unpretentious environment in which we see, support and encourage each other. And happily laughing together.
History
Purac Founded in 1956 in Lund as a direct result of the invention of the flotation on the Östanå paper mill. Purac was originally part of Tetra Pak and made initial water treatment facilities for the company's paperboard production.
In 1993 Purac was bought by British Anglian Water Group, then after 10 years of ownership sold Purac on to the Swedish private equity company Accent Equity Partners, which was the principal owner of Purac.
KFI Capital was, through the holding company Läckeby Water Group, Purac's main shareholder 2008-2015. During KFI Kapital's ownership Purac further developed and is now one of the leading construction companies in the water and wastewater treatment and biogas production in Scandinavia and China.
Since December 2015, SDIC & Beijing Drainage Investment Fund, owner of Purac. SDIC & Beijing Drainage Investment Fund is a fund owned by Beijing Drainage Group, BDG. BDG is a state-owned Chinese company which owns and operates the majority of all sewage treatment plants in central Beijing.