Page 10: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (December 2016)

“That is one of the strengths of

Evoqua – we are not a small, one-horse-only company. We are a consortium of different water companies; we have roughly 4,000 employees in 170 locations. ” – Matt Granitto, Evoqua

Matt GranittoMatt Granitto

Global Business Manager,

Ballast Water Solutions, Evoqua

At SMM 2016 in September in Hamburg, Maritime Report- er TV caught up with Evoqua’s Matt Granitto the day after the global ballast water technology mandate came into force with rati? cation of the measure by Finland, bringing the percentage of world tonnage in agreement above the benchmark 35%.

Let’s start out with the big news: ment on the IMO website that the ton- which is relatively new to a lot of people. kets are on the larger ? ow rates, and we the IMO approval came through. nage has ? nally reached the 35% mark. Two years ago you would have known believe that we are a better solution in

You tell me it’s 35.1411%. Could you So come next September 8, the conven- us as Siemens Water. We have been in the 500 to 6,000 cu. m./hr. systems. please explain. tion will be in force. the industry a long time, and we have a couple of thousand installations with the Six thousand cubic meters per hour is There were rumors ? ying around all And that’s good news for the ballast heart of our system, which is a Chloro- a pretty robust ? ow rate. Is it safe to of the halls yesterday that Finland would water manufacturers and, I think, for pac system. We are a ? ltration and elec- say you would be targeting large con- be the next to ratify; the question was industry, because we have to start put- tro-chlorination system. The heart of the tainer ships and the VLCC market?

whether they would have enough of ting in the capacity to build these sys- system being the Chloropac, which has the world’s tonnage to push it over the tems. It also gives ship owners a bit of been in production consistently since the Yes, that is exactly our target market; 35% limit. This morning, we heard that direction. Please describe your system. early 1970s. So we’re ? ltering the large along with LNG carriers. Traditional us-

Finland did indeed ratify, and about one stuff and killing the small stuff with a ers of our Chloropac modules are LNG hour later, we got the of? cial announce- As you mentioned, we are Evoqua, small dose of chlorine. Our target mar- gas carriers. So they already are famil- 10 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • DECEMBER 2016

MR #12 (10-17).indd 10 MR #12 (10-17).indd 10 12/5/2016 2:21:46 PM12/5/2016 2:21:46 PM