Niagara Bottling to install New Logic Researchs VSEP Brine Minimization System
Emeryville, Calif.-based New Logic Research and Niagara Bottling, LLC, Ontario, Calif., announced the finalization of an agreement to provide a VSEP brine minimization system for a Niagara facility currently being built in the United States. The system will enable Niagara, a manufacturer of private label bottled water, to further increase its water efficiency to greater than 99 percent plant-wide.
VSEP's patented vibratory shear mechanism coupled with an innovative filter pack design keeps its membranes free of obstruction, ensuring trouble-free operation even in the face of difficult feed waters such as reverse osmosis (RO) brine, the companies said.
"We pick up where traditional RO systems leave off, filtering and concentrating the brine past the point where dissolved solids actually drop out of solution — an unthinkable proposition in other membrane systems,” said Greg Johnson, CEO, New Logic Research. “It's this unique ability driving New Logic's rapid growth in the field — increasing water yield through RO brine minimization. We're proud to partner with Niagara — a fellow California company dedicated to providing innovative, high-quality products for its customers."
For Niagara, continual improvements in sustainability are a way of life. Innovations like Niagara's Eco-Air Package and Eco-Air Bottle have greatly reduced the resources required to create their products and reduced the carbon footprint of the entire operation, the companies said.
"VSEP is essentially a zero-wastewater purification system that will allow us to bottle 99 percent-plus of the water we draw. Increasing yield makes sense from both a business and sustainability perspective," said Niagara CEO Andy Peykoff II. "This system will make our new facility the most water-efficient purified water bottling plant in the U.S. We're excited to get the system up and running."
The VSEP system will be built at New Logic's Emeryville, Calif. manufacturing facility and shipped in stages to Niagara's new facility, the companies said. Full commissioning will commence later in 2015.