North American Filtration-MA, Inc.
Waterlink (NYSE: WLK) is a leading international provider of equipment, systems and services for the purification of water and treatment of wastewater. With annualized sales approaching $200 million, Waterlink is the fifth largest water/wastewater equipment manufacturer headquartered in the United States. Serving municipal, industrial, commercial and residential customers throughout the world, Waterlink has approximately 675 employees working from 21 operating locations in seven countries (U.S., Chile, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, and the UK), and serving the world.
Waterlink offers its customers either individual products or processes, or complete, integrated single-source systems, as they desire. Our systems capability is based on our extensive applications expertise combined with what we believe is one of the broadest product lines in the industry, including proprietary technologies. Our greatest strength is in the analysis of a customer's treatment requirements and the application of our systems, equipment and services to provide a cost-effective solution. We market our solutions directly and through more than 250 independent sales organizations, as well as dealers, distributors, and licensees.
Our industrial customers include manufacturers in all major industries, including pulp and paper, petrochemical, chemical, automotive, electronic, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, mining and metals, food and drink, printing, and fabricated metals. They require our systems to purify raw and process water, to treat wastewater, to control odor, to remediate groundwater, and to recondition process water for recovery and reuse. Our municipal customers require our systems to purify drinking water and treat wastewater for their communities. Our commercial customers, such as resorts, car washes, restaurants and the like can require our systems for producing drinking and utility water, and treating rinse water and wastewater. Our residential customers, who purchase our products through our OEM and dealer/distributor customers, require our point-of-use (POU) or whole house drinking water products and systems.
Through our Specialty Products Division, Waterlink also is a major international activated carbon and carbon systems supplier, for not only water and wastewater treatment, but also air quality and other applications.
Waterlink operations are conducted through our five divisions: Biological Wastewater Systems Division (biological treatment and aeration systems), Separations Division (separations technology and solids management), Pure Water Division (membrane systems for drinking and process water), Specialty Products Division (activated carbon and carbon systems) and European Water and Wastewater Division (design/build water and wastewater treatment plants, river structures, separations technology and solids management).