The meat processing industry is entering uncharted waters as governments worldwide introduce tougher carbon pricing policies and expand community awareness about which industries are posing environmental challenges in terms of air and water purity. Meat processing – including cattle, sheep, pig and poultry plants – will attract increasing attention as we move further into the [...]

Flat-plate MBR technology ensures robust performance and minimal maintenance CST Wastewater Solutions’ latest MBR (membrane biological reactor) wastewater treatment, the Smith and Loveless Titan MBR, is a robust and efficient low-maintenance system for municipal and industrial applications. The innovative pre-engineered TITAN MBR QUB™ combines the wastewater treatment engineering expertise of Smith & Loveless with submerged [...]

A BOOM for business as packaged green energy solutions sweeten balance sheets and sustainability A GWE Anaerobic reactor, left, and green energy electricity generation, right A company introducing some of the world’s most advanced green energy from waste water technologies to Australasia is forging partnerships to help companies more easily afford the most sustainable [...]

CST Wastewater Solutions has partnered with Global Water Engineering (GWE) to supply the RAPTOR system, which stands for Rapid Treatment of Organic Residues. It’s a powerful liquid-state anaerobic digestion process that can convert almost any organic residue or energy crop into biogas, valuable electricity or heat. “A RAPTOR plant is a total solution, starting with [...]

An Australian brewery’s waste water recovery plant, designed to achieve world’s best practice standards of water reuse and green energy generation, has won a Mercury National Materials Handling Award for Best Green Initiative. The Bluetongue Brewery in NSW – engineered by Australia’s CST Wastewater Solutions in partnership with Global Water Engineering – has achieved all [...]

Underperforming open industrial waste water treatment lagoons are on the way out after more than a century, as industry counts the cost of their pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the problems they set out to address. The advent of increasingly global carbon taxes, community activism, and increased legislative awareness of [...]

One of the world’s leading dairy product companies is achieving high efficiency discharge targets from a new $1.5 million wastewater treatment facility for treating effluent from its Southern NSW manufacturing site. The company chose a high-performance high-efficiency DAF (Dissolved Air Flotation) system, designed and successfully installed by CST Wastewater Solutions. The wastewater treatment plant is [...]

CST Wastewater Solutions has introduced its latest-technology Rotary Drum Screen for high efficiency screening of industrial and municipal wastewaters. Featuring all-stainless construction including base frame – and being fully enclosed for OH&S odour and aerosol control - the new design advances rotary drum screen technology well into the 21st century, said Michael Bambridge, Managing Director [...]

Australian canned fruit and fruit drinks company Golden Circle is planning to install a larger boiler to take better advantage of biogas produced from the anaerobic processing of wastewater from the factory’s food processing plant in Northgate, Queensland. The existing boiler burns around 30 per cent of the biogas produced. The new boiler, utilises about [...]

An environmentally sensitive brewery that makes more beer out of less water while using less energy has commenced production in the home of one of the world’s leading beer drinking countries, Australia. SABMiller’s Bluetongue Brewery in New South Wales features a state-of-the-art water recovery plant, which targets best-practice water reuse standards. The water recovery plant [...]