Company History

Like many large, successful companies, we started very small.
In 1990, with just a cleaning fluid for the instant removal of iron and manganese biofouling from the wetted surfaces of drinking water structures, Jim Panton was a one-man-band in a small rusty van applying the material to the insides of service reservoirs for clients in Scotland that required it while supplying to those who chose to use the material themselves..

After a few years - in fact in 1994 - the company as it is named today was formed and Jim acquired a bigger van. Regular business had begun to flow in from the early organisations that purveyed drinking water in Scotland as well as some in England.

By the time we reached the millennium, the company had been joined by the present board of directors and they were all hard at it, throughout the UK, cleaning and disinfecting service reservoirs from the north of Scotland to southern England.

Also, by this time Iain Weir and Paul Henderson had added a rapid repairs division to our cleaning services – we were on-site in drained down tanks and could see the need for instant repairs of all kinds to improve the maintenance of the stored water quality. Our clientele were pleased to receive another much needed service.

And now in 2010, with another decade behind us, the company is many times bigger and is proud to have developed into the unique “Drinking Water Quality Engineering” company that it is, offering specialist services throughout the country, not only in de-biofouling, cleaning and disinfection but by now, refurbishment and major repairs to all manner of structures, underwater, on-line, robotic cleaning and survey services for internal inspections and the commissioning into service of drinking water pipelines.

With our mixed bag of in-house engineering skills – chemical, civil, electrical/electronic, mechanical, environmental and last but not least, good ‘ol project management, we have been able to move out from under the public water supply mantle to solve never before attempted problems in industrial water – like the scouring of live cooling tower ponds which cannot be taken out of service, process water management, nuclear applications, even an aquarium!

Nothing wet will ever be a problem to us!

Our plans for the future development of the company, both here and abroad, are bound only a by a sensible rate of expansion, year on year!