As part of the Group's GreenUp strategic plan, Veolia Water Technologies has opened a new Life Science Centre of Excellence near Dublin to ‘drive water treatment innovation, growth, and training in Europe and beyond for the pharmaceutical, science and healthcare markets’.
Veolia launched its GreenUp ‘strategic programme’ in late February this year to enable it to – as it put it – ‘be recognised everywhere and by everyone as the missing link in the ecological transformation, by accelerating the deployment of concrete solutions while stimulating innovation to depollute, decarbonise, and regenerate’ its resources.
At over 8,000 ft2 (743 m2), the Life Science Centre of Excellence houses a ‘dedicated customer showroom experience’, featuring many of Veolia’s ‘flagship’ water treatment and purification technologies – including Orion, Sirion, Polaris 2.0, the PureLab Quest, Flex, and Chorus ranges, Ozonia, and Sievers Instruments. The technologies on show ‘underpin critical processes in strategic businesses such as pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotechnology and medical research, directly contributing to improved healthcare’.
Veolia Water Technologies said of the new Dublin facility: “This state-of-the-art centre aims to future-proof service engineers’ expertise with City & Guilds-assured training to exceed industry standards, drive excellence, and enable customers to push ecological boundaries for better health outcomes.”
The training offered encompasses everything from equipment installation and maintenance to advanced operational techniques. “This dual-purpose training offering will provide an invaluable opportunity for in-house engineers to get hands-on experience in navigating the complexities of modern water treatment before setting foot on our customers’ sites,” Veolia Water Technologies explained. “Simultaneously, it will train customer engineers, fostering collaboration, and facilitating the co-development of specialised treatments and tailored solutions to meet their businesses' individual and evolving needs in the health domain.”
“The life science industries are vital for creating a healthier world, but our customers are facing growing challenges”, explained Anne Le Guennec, Senior Executive Vice-President, Water Technologies. “We must mitigate resource security issues intensified by rising demand, ensuring performance and sustainability without compromise. The Life Science Centre of Excellence is pivotal as we enhance our leadership across Europe and the USA as part of our strategic plan, GreenUp. We have the technologies to help our customers achieve their goals, but the Centre of Excellence is adding the key ingredient, the thing that offers our customers peace of mind: our expertise.”