Water treatment, desalination, and critical minerals processing for industrial scale
Aquatech designs and deploys water reuse, desalination, and minerals recovery systems for large industrial facilities. The tech stack reveals a hybrid engineering operation: CAD-native (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Inventor) paired with controls-layer tools (PLC, HMI), backend systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite), and emerging cloud (AWS). The hiring surge is heavily skewed toward engineering (41 of 75 roles), with active work on control-system upgrades and critical minerals recovery—signals that the business is modernizing legacy infrastructure while scaling into new verticals like lithium refining.
Notable leadership hires: Project Director, Sales Director, Lab Director
Aquatech provides membrane, thermal, and chemical treatment solutions for water reuse, desalination, minimal/zero liquid discharge, and critical minerals processing. The company sells to industrial operators—energy, food & beverage, mining, chemical manufacturing—who face water scarcity, regulatory pressure, and the need to recover valuable minerals from process streams. Founded in 1981, Aquatech operates 501–1,000 employees across North America with significant subsidiaries in Europe, the Middle East, India, and China. Their delivery model combines technology licensing, equipment supply, and on-site commissioning and optimization.
Engineering CAD tools (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Inventor), controls (PLC, HMI), ERP/financial systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite), and AWS cloud. Project management via Primavera P6, design collaboration via Figma, HubSpot for sales operations.
Control system upgrades on legacy installations, critical minerals and lithium recovery, zero liquid discharge optimization, pilot-scale process validation, and jar test optimization for wastewater treatment facilities.
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