- Gilbert Degrémont
Gilbert Degrémont (1908 in Le Cateau, France -
November 22 ,1974 inVal d'Oise , France) was a Frenchwater treatment expert and the founder of Degrémont SA, awater treatment company.He studied
agronomy at the Institute of Agronomy inRennes in 1927.After working with his father Émile, and his brother Étienne in the industrial foundry business in Le Cateau, he succeeded in the iron filtering process of Saigon waters in 1933, before founding his company in 1939 at
Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts de Seine ), with offices in Paris, and workshops inLevallois-Perret . After WWII, he succeeded in filtering the water ofSt Etienne (2000 m³/hour) and stared approaching the international market. He moved the company to its newly built headquarters inRueil-Malmaison , where it is still located today.The company won a water treatment contract for Cairo, followed by many large water treatment contracts such as Tehran, Jakarta, Lima, and many major cities worldwide between 1950 and 1970.
He retired from the company he founded in 1972, after it merged with SGEA, later known as
Lyonnaise des eaux .He designed the company's dove logo that is still the trademark of the company. Degrémont is associated with water treatment, and to many countries in the 1950s, it was associated with modernity and better health for the population, hence the popularity of the name. The company today is still a world leader in water treatment plant.
Its three activities, design-build, O&M and equipment are worldwide and serve the four expertise in water treatment : drinking water, desalination, wastewater reuse and sludge treatment.It's latest contracts include the biggest seawater desalination plant in the Southern Hemisphere in Perth, Australia (144,000 m3/d) and the biggest wastewater and reuse plant in the world in Dubai, UAE (220,000 m3/d) for the Jumeirah Golf Estates real estate project.
More info : www.degremont.com
References
* [http://www.degremont.com/ Degrémont]
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