Scienco/FAST Acquires InTank BWTS
Last month Scienco/FAST, a subsidiary of BioMicrobics, Inc. and specialists in water and wastewater treatment, added an important capability with its acquisition of the InTank BWTS from Envirocleanse, a division of Charter Brokerage, LLC, a Berkshire Hathaway Company. Robert J Rebori, President, BioMicrobics, Inc., discusses the deal and its importance to his company’s business.Scienco/FAST’s business is centered on providing water and wastewater treatment systems, and last month it completed the deal to acquire the InTank Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS), a system tailor-fit for the company’s business plan an manufacturing capabilities.
“We acquired the InTank BWTS technology and all IP assets,” said Rebori, who said that the benefits of the InTank system are easy to see, pointing out that it is the only BWTS that can treat InVoyage, as opposed to InLine systems with filters that need to work in port.
With patented nozzles inside the ballast tanks and a hypochlorite generator, the InTank BWTS is an “InVoyage” and unique, ballast water management system, which — thanks to its lack of filtration and complete independence of ballast pumps or lines — is immune to many of the problems associated with ballast including pump flow rates, pressure losses and power shortages, according to SciencoFast.
According to Rebori, a key factor in the technology acquisition was familiarity with the process. “We have our own knowledge of our own sodium hypochlorite generators, so we understood their approach to ballast water treatment and the advantages.”
“The InTank BWTS provides the best confidence of regulatory compliance with the least impact to vessel operations. It is an important and unique addition to the current offerings in the marketplace. Add all of these advantages to the fact that we are the most life-cycle, cost-competitive system on the market.”
According to Rebori, the market for this system is worldwide for large vessels for bulkers, heavy lifters, semi submersibles, and large tankers that use large amounts of ballast water and often long voyages
