Chennai, October 13, 2015: Schwing Stetter India, one of the leading concrete equipment manufacturing companies in India has announced their entrance into the Industrial Equipment Segment with the launch an exclusive range of the sludge pumps and muck pumps at IFAT 2015, India’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, refuse and recycling.

The market for sustainable technologies in water as well as waste water treatment is driven by new opportunities arising due to the global economic meltdown. This KSP range of sludge pumps is also highly useful to the mineral, petrochemical, food processing and thermal power industries. This product will be highly beneficial to the country, where drainage water can be filtered into a sludge that is converted to bio organisers – fit for direct consumption.

Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emphasis on cleaning India with the launch of the ‘Swacch Bharat’ campaign, Schwing Stetter India has entered into a new segment with the launch of the first ever high capacity, high volume “Sludge Pumps and Muck Pumps”. These pumps provide turnkey solutions for transport and storage of sludges as well as materials with high solid content.

The KSP range of sludge pumps can be used for the following:

> Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP) – Where sewage sludge is mechanically dewatered with foreign particles > Waste recycling – Recycling waste sludge, oil sludge, salt mud and radioactive waste > Construction industry – Recycling bentonite clay mud mortar tailings > Mining, refineries and power plants – Recycling red mud, gold slime, iron sludge, zinc sludge, metallic oxide sludge and fly ash > Chemicals industry - Recycling organic and inorganic materials, stabilised chemical waste, lime slurry, food-processing, by-products and paint sludges, etc.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Anand Sundaresan, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director, Schwing Stetter India said, “Schwing Group has had this sludge pump system for transport and storage of high viscose sludges and material with high solid content for a long time. These pumps are used worldwide in waste water treatment plants, waste recycling, mining, refining, power plants and in the chemical industry. With Government initiative in the Swach Bharat campaign, we are sure that such products will find huge applications in cleaning and disposal of sludge and waste in many industries. IFAT expo 2015 has provided the right platform for the introduction and launch of these products in Indian market.”

Mr V G Sakthikumar, Managing Director, Schwing Stetter Sales & Services Pvt Ltd said, “At Schwing Stetter, we are looking to broaden our horizons by entering newer segments. The industrial equipment business is exciting and the Schwing sludge pumps will be used for handling dewatered municipal sludge, flyash in thermal plant and sludges in mineral processing and dredging muck.”