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The sites that have just been allowed to treat more.

A site that is going to treat more, discharge more or meet a tighter limit has to be given permission first, in writing, with numbers. Between that permission and the first order there is a design stage, and it is the only point at which a supplier can be specified rather than priced against two others.

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PR/AB1234CD/V004written for process and treatment plant

Dairy site applies to treat a third more effluent

  • Permitted discharge rises from 450 to 600 cubic metres a day.
  • Varied 9 September 2026; the new limit takes effect on grant.
  • No treatment technology named in the variation.
  • The site belongs to a group that varied two other sites this year.

150 cubic metres a day of new treatment capacity with nothing specified yet, at a group that is doing this repeatedly. The specification is open, and the same buyer will be back.

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What puts a card here
A site applies to discharge more, to treat more or to meet a tighter limit.
When the money moves
The plant must meet the new limit once granted, so treatment is designed around the application and ordered soon after the grant.
You sell
effluent and water treatment, pumps and tanks, processing and abatement plant

What an effluent permit tells a treatment supplier.

A discharge or treatment permit fixes the volume, the limits and the date. Those three set the size of the plant, how well it has to treat and when it has to work, which is most of a treatment specification, written before anyone has asked for a quote.

The size of the market first, without names: New UK waste and water sites, counted weekly on CapexRadar, the engine behind Stanfell.

  1. The capacity before and after in cubic metres a day, not in the units of the record.
  2. Whether a treatment technology has already been named, which tells you if the specification is open or closed.
  3. Whether the site has broken its present limits, which turns a purchase into a fix with a deadline.

Water and effluent treatment suppliers who use it.

  • Effluent and water treatment integrators
  • Pumps, tanks, dosing and filtration
  • Membrane and biological treatment
  • Sludge handling and dewatering
  • Process engineering contractors

Water and effluent treatment leads: your questions.

Does this include the big water companies' programmes?
No. Those are let through long frameworks to a handful of contractors, and a card would not help you win them. This is industrial and commercial sites: food, drink, chemicals, waste and manufacturing, where the buyer is the site itself.
How early is this compared with a tender?
Usually months earlier, and most of these sites never tender publicly at all. They ask two or three suppliers they already know, which is why being known before the design starts matters.

If this is what you sell, this is your category.

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