Top 10 Companies in Water and Wastewater Treatment Market

The Water and Wastewater Treatment Market is projected to reach USD 1,024.8 billion by 2033 from an estimated USD 611.4 billion in 2024, at a CAGR of 5.9% during the period of 2024–2033. The growth of the water and wastewater treatment market is driven by rapid population growth, urbanization, stringent water treatment regulations, the lack of freshwater resources, and the increasing prevalence of waterborne diseases. However, the high costs of installing, maintaining, and operating water and wastewater treatment infrastructure restrain the growth of this market. Furthermore, the rising demand for energy-efficient and advanced water treatment technologies is expected to generate growth opportunities for market players. However, upgrading and repairing aging water infrastructure is a major challenge in the water and wastewater treatment market.

Here are the top 10 companies operating in the Water and Wastewater Treatment Market

Dow Inc.

Incorporated in 2018 and headquartered in Michigan, the U.S., Dow Inc. is a materials science company serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility, and consumer applications. The company manufactures and distributes specialty chemicals, rubber, and agroscience and plastic materials. The company offers polymers for a wide range of application temperatures, finding use from wastewater to boiler foam control. The company’s cost-efficient foam control agents are widely used in many industrial applications, including wastewater, boiler water, and process water treatment. The company operates in the market through four reportable segments: Packaging & Specialty Plastics, Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure, Performance Materials & Coatings, and Corporate.

BASF SE

Founded in 1865 and headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, BASF SE provides chemical products. The company’s wide range of offerings includes petrochemicals, monomers, intermediates, food additives, pharmaceutical ingredients, water treatment, dispersions & pigments, care chemicals, nutrition & health products, paper chemicals, and performance chemicals. The company serves a wide range of industries, including construction, agriculture, chemicals, electronics and electrical, paints and coatings, automotive, home care, nutrition, and others. BASF’s water treatment chemicals include flocculants and coagulants especially designed for solid/liquid separation in industrial and municipal wastewater treatment. The company’s solid/liquid separation range includes flocculants, coagulants, and dewatering aids employed across a diverse range of applications, including thickening, filtration, and centrifugation. The company operates in the market through six reportable segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care, and Agricultural Solutions.

Veolia Environnement

Founded in 1853 and headquartered in Paris, France, Veolia Environnement offers solutions for the collection and transport of drinking water and wastewater. These include designing and building water and sanitation networks, operating and maintaining water and wastewater treatment networks, distributing drinking water, and collecting wastewater. The company is active in all stages of the water cycle, from abstraction through to returning it to the natural environment. The company operates in the market through three reportable segments: Water, Waste, and Energy. The water business integrates drinking water and wastewater activities, such as water distribution and collection, water and wastewater treatment and supply, industrial process water, wastewater sludge management, and recycling and reuse solutions, as well as the construction of water treatment plants. The company also manufactures water treatment equipment and technologies. The waste business collects, sorts, processes, disposes, and recycles household, commercial, and industrial wastes.

SUEZ S.A.

Established in 2021 and headquartered in Paris, France, SUEZ S.A. provides water management, recycling, waste recovery, water treatment, and consulting services. The company’s expertise ranges from the construction, financing, operation, and maintenance of drinking water production plants, wastewater treatment plants, and waste recycling and recovery facilities. The company offers site managers long-term consulting services and quick response times for on-site maintenance work. The company has delivered water treatment facilities under Design, Build & Operate (DBO) contracts or Design, Build, Finance & Operate (DBFO, BOT) contracts in many countries worldwide and hundreds of solid waste treatment facilities, such as waste-to-energy, anaerobic digestion, composting, mechanical-biological treatment, sorting & recycling, managed landfills for non-hazardous and hazardous waste. The company offers water distribution and treatment services to local authorities and business clients; waste collection and treatment services, which include collection, sorting, recycling, composting, energy recovery, and landfilling for non-hazardous and hazardous waste to local authorities and industrial clients; and water, waste, and engineering services. The company operates in the market through three reportable segments: Water, Recycling and Recovery, and Other activities.

DuPont de Nemours, Inc.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Delaware, the U.S., DuPont de Nemours, Inc. provides engineered products and integrated systems for several industries, including worker safety, water purification and separation, transportation, energy, medical packaging, and building materials. DuPont’s product portfolio comprises ion exchange resins used to remove contaminants from water and other liquids, reverse osmosis, and nanofiltration elements for industrial, municipal, commercial, and home drinking water applications. The company operates in the market through three reportable segments: Electronics & Industrial, Water & Protection, and Corporate & Other.

Meticulous Research in its latest publication on Water and Wastewater Treatment Market has predicted the growth of 5.9% during the forecast year 2024-2033.

Xylem Inc.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Washington, the U.S., Xylem Inc. designs, manufactures, and services highly engineered products and solutions across a wide variety of critical applications, primarily in the water sector but also in energy. The company’s broad portfolio of products, services, and solutions addresses customer needs of scarcity, resilience, and affordability across the water cycle, from the delivery, measurement, and use of drinking water to the collection, testing, analysis, and treatment of wastewater, to the return of water to the environment. The company operates in the market through four reportable segments: Water Infrastructure, Applied Water, Measurement & Control Solutions, and Integrated Solutions and Services. The Water Infrastructure segment offers various products, including water and wastewater pumps, treatment and testing equipment, and controls and systems, as well as filtration, disinfection, and biological treatment equipment under the Flygt, WEDECO, Godwin, WTW, Sanitaire, YSI, and Leopold brands. The applied water segment provides pumps, valves, heat exchangers, controls, and dispensing equipment systems under the Goulds Water Technology, Bell & Gossett, A-C Fire Pump, Standard Xchange, Lowara, Jabsco, Flojet, and Flowtronex brands for residential and commercial building services, industrial water, and irrigation applications.

3M Company

Incorporated in 1929 and headquartered in Minnesota, the U.S., 3M Company offers products and services for safety and industrial, transportation and electronics, health care, and consumer sectors. The company has a robust portfolio of industrial water solutions to help meet the environmental concerns, regulatory requirements, and filtration needs of virtually every industry. The company’s filtration products are designed to process water to meet regulatory disposal requirements or to make wastewater a renewable incoming water source. The company also offers other microelectronics filtration and food and beverage filtration technologies and dissolved gas control product solutions for your industrial water filtration and gas control processes. The company operates in the market through four reportable segments: Safety and Industrial, Transportation and Electronics, Health Care, and Consumer.

Pentair plc

Founded in 1966 and headquartered in London, the U.K., Pentair plc delivers diversified lines of submersible wastewater pumps and accessories for industrial applications. The company operates in the market through three reportable segments: Pool, Water Solutions, and Flow. The company manufactures and sells a variety of fluid treatment products, pumps, valves, and spray nozzles, as well as systems combining products such as process filtration systems and gas recovery solutions. These products and systems serve the global residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, and infrastructure vertical markets. These products and systems are used in a range of applications, including food and beverage, fluid separation technologies, water and wastewater treatment, water wells, pressure boosting, fire suppression, flood control, agricultural irrigation, crop spray, and fluid circulation and transfer.

Kemira Oyj

Founded in 1920 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Kemira Oyj operates as a global water chemistry company. The company offers chemical products and integrated systems for the pulp and paper industry, water treatment chemicals for municipalities and industrial sectors, and chemical extraction and process solutions for the oil and mining industries. The company operates through two business segments: Pulp & Paper and Industry & Water. The company’s offerings cater to detergent and cleaning, biogas, industrial water, mining, municipal water, oil and gas, paper, sugar and bioethanol, and other industries. Kemira also provides polymers, antiscalants, defoamers, biocides, coagulants, sodium chlorate, sodium borohydride, and polyaluminium chloride. The company also offers pulp bleaching, water treatment, fine chemicals, and chemical extraction and process solutions. Kemira has R&D centers in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia.

Kingspan Group plc

Founded in 1965 and headquartered in Ireland, the U.K., Kingspan Group plc provides high-performance insulation and building envelope solutions to homeowners, contractors, developers, and businesses in the U.K. and Ireland. The company manufactures and supports new technologies to preserve and protect water and is also a manufacturer of energy management solutions. The company offers insulated panel systems, insulation, architectural facade systems, controlled environments, ductwork, wastewater management, and access floors, as well as plastic tanks for harvesting rainwater, off-mains drainage systems, fuel storage and dispensing, potable water storage, cold water chemical storage, and water treatment tanks. The company operates in the market through five reportable segments: Insulated Panels, Insulation, Light, Air + Water, Data + Flooring, and Roofing + Waterproofing. It provides solutions that enable sustainable water and energy management in commercial, residential, and agricultural applications. The company offers solutions in wastewater, water harvesting, floodwater drainage, hot water, and liquid storage, all supported by monitoring and service solutions.

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