Institute of Water Magazine - Autumn 2019

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HOW INNOVATION AND AUTOMATION CAN BUILD THE WATER MARKET OF THE FUTURE

Innovation becomes more important to the water market every year. by Patrick Randall

Everflow Tech’s Senior Project Manager From the cleaning and containment of potable water with the recent issues around water purity, to technical advances in the conveyance of water and leak detection, as well as better filtering and cleaning of waste – especially trade effluent – there’s now a stronger focus than ever on creating interactive systems. With a focus on automation, customers can use these systems to manage water consumption and issues as they occur. We’re entering a new age where communication can be faster than ever before, and for something as essential as water, making sure it flows clean and pure is becoming the responsibility of everyone.

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Everflow can accredit a lot of its success to its passion for innovation. We always push for the best people for every role and put a huge focus on our employees being idea driven people, especially in the subsidiary companies Everflow Tech and Everflow Operations. We have found great returns from running events like vision evenings where the directors get to share the goals of the company with all of the employees and open up for fair equal exchange of ideas.

us work together as a team to take on the scaleup challenge, as well as our focus on automation. We have recently developed our own software, which has both increased revenues and improved efficiency – and has been integral to our scale-up success. I can only thank my amazing team for believing in my vision, and our loyal customers and brokers for helping us achieve it. I can’t wait to see what we accomplish in the future.”

Our directors’ recent words around our growth sum this up perfectly: “My main goal has always been to create a water company which would not only provide great value water rates to SMEs but would go beyond that and make lives easier through innovation and new ways of thinking.

The vision laid out here, has given us a goal to aim for – we will create the water company of the future, and this means creating advanced and innovative technological solutions. Everflow Tech was launched for this reason and has been researching and creating forward facing solutions for all areas of the water utility market.

We’ve experienced incredible growth over the past few years thanks to the importance we place on our company values, which have helped

Everflow Tech was born by identifying the challenges currently faced by water retailers. With our experience in the industry, through


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