Industrial Process Treatment

Since then WWM has worked for virtually every industry category and its industrial clients have included such notable companies as Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, Kimberly Clark, Westvaco, Amoco, Smithfield, Carolina Turkeys, Wampler Foods, Deans Foods, Kraft, Genstar, FMC, Tyson’s Foods, Holly Farms, Oscar Meyer, Shenandoah’s Pride, Lance Foods, Burlington Industries, Fieldcrest Cannon, Dominion Semiconductor, Micron, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Tolkoff Industries, etc.

Notably in 1986 Mr. Rigby was selected by the US Small Business Administration to be its representative to the People’s Republic of China as part of its 5 Year Plan to discuss industrial wastewater pollution and water conservation. The seeds of that work are now beginning to mature and bear fruit as China is now entering the world economic markets. In 1990 Mr. Rigby again worked outside the US in response to Mexico’s recognition that pollution from industries, particularly in the Valley of Mexico and such places as Tijuana, Guadalajara, Veracruz and the maquiadora region along the Rio Grande River. During that period WWM and Mr. Rigby wrote developed environmental impact assessments and designed approximately thirty industrial wastewater treatment systems. In 1994 Mr. Rigby was selected by the Asian Development Bank to lead a technical team to Bangkok Thailand to study the extent of the industrial pollution in the Changwat Samut Prakarn and develop the basic program for long term waste minimization and pollution control. At the time of the study there were approximately 3,000 unregulated industrial polluters in the region and in 2005 the Thai government announced had completed the initial phase of construction of the long term infrastructure improvement program.