Calix looking to accelerate US market entry through the acquisition of Inland Environmental Resources.
Inland Environmental Resources, Inc. (IER) is a distributor of magnesium hydroxide (MHL) products and other innovative environmentally-friendly process water and wastewater treatment chemicals and equipment. IER’s philosophy is to identify potential environmental solutions that can optimise performance and minimise costs associated with process water and wastewater treatment.
With rapid urbanisation and development, and increasing environmental pressure on industrial emissions, there is an emerging trend for safe, sustainable solutions to prevent odour, protect existing and new infrastructure, and improve wastewater treatment performance.
Water and wastewater management is a challenge that can threaten vital waterways, with impacts on health and environment. IER’s values perfectly align to Calix’s goal of creating solutions that solve global sustainability challenges. Calix’s ACTI-Mag for example, is aimed at improving the sustainability of water treatment.
“IER represents a great opportunity to leverage our technology into a great local US company to accelerate growth. We look forward to welcoming the IER team to Calix and working with them to build a great business in the US,” Phil Hodgson said.
“IER offers more than 100 years of combined experience in the areas of municipal and industrial wastewater and process water treatment. IER shares Calix’s passion to provide their uniquely stable and reactive MHL products for further growth into our primary North American markets, and to expand the applications of these high-quality, environmentally friendly technologies into new markets.” Doug Kelley, President of IER.
Through this acquisition, Calix will be looking to drive topline revenue growth in the US through expansion in existing geographies with more than a thousand municipal wastewater authorities across the nine US states where IER operates, introducing Calix’s odour control, phosphate removal, and fat/ oil/grease (FOG) control solutions into these states, as well as expanding into new geographies and markets through the benefits offered by Calix’s ability to stabilise MHL and improve its performance.
The aquisition remains on-track for dosing before end December, 2019.
ACTI-Mag for Odour Control
ACTI-Mag has a higher neutralising value per kilo when compared with caustic while being significantly safer to handle than other traditional alkalis, making it a very safe
and cost competitive option for hydrogen sulphide gas (H2S) control in sewers.
