Water & Wastewater Asia September/October 2021

WATER & WASTEWATER ASIA | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021
and pose health risks. To address
this, Grundfos’ dosing and
disinfecting offerings can minimise
and support our customers
in terms of compliance and
water conservation, and we are
constantly exploring new ways
to do this more intelligently and
efficiently.
In 2020, we introduced the
Grundfos Smart Filtration Suite
(SFS), which through real-time
analytics, optimises filtration
systems to operate in the most
cost-effective and sustainable way,
providing savings on water, energy
and chemicals and ensuring
reduced downtime of filtration
systems in wastewater treatment
facilities. A municipal water work
in Sweden is using an ultrafiltration
system for drinking water
production from surface water. By
extending the membrane chemical
cleaning interval with SFS, the
direct water savings potential of
4,334m 3 /year was achieved, with
the possibility to further increase
the savings.
Another challenge is that water
treatment and reuse can be an
energy-intensive process. In the
case of leveraging water reuse,
ensuring energy efficiency across
the entire system is more crucial
than ever. To address this, we
believe that the key to maximise
efficiency is optimising the whole
pump system, and not only the
pumps. Grundfos’ iSOLUTIONS
range, which includes digital
dosing and disinfecting solutions,
optimises water and energy
efficiency across the entire
system by leveraging connectivity,
intelligent monitoring, and
adjustment features.
Can you elaborate the reasons
for Grundfos to roll out its
sustainability initiatives, and
what are the key takeaways the
company have picked up so far?
Campos: Sustainability is at the
heart of Grundfos’ entire value
chain, and we believe that everyone
needs to play an active role and
join in a concerted, ambitious
effort to build a net-zero carbon
economy. In active collaboration
with our customers, suppliers, and
other partners, we are constantly
striving to find new, innovative, and
sustainable solutions. We have
been focused on working towards
our Strategy 2025 ambitions, which
includes halving our own water
withdrawal and CO2 emissions
by 2025, compared to the 2008
baseline.
One of our learnings was the need
to prioritise reducing our overall
footprint, including our end-users’
emissions while using our own
products and solutions. We have
also worked with internal and
external stakeholders to further
our ambition of contributing to
safely managed drinking water.
We have become wiser in how
we can define contribution in a
meaningful way, and what our main
contributors are.
In 2020, notably, we worked to fully
understand our impact throughout
the value chain and started several
key initiatives to address the issues
we identified. With regards to
reducing our CO2 emissions within
our operations, we have drafted
a clear roadmap towards 2025,
and are confident we will attain
our goals. We are both investing
heavily in energy efficiency and
gearing up to shift our entire energy
consumption to renewable sources
by 2030. This will continue to be a
focus for us in the coming years.
We have been working with external
advisors to assess CO2 emissions
throughout our entire value chain.
We established the Green Supply
Chain Management Programme.
This is a cross-functional initiative
within the four workstreams –
logistics, packaging, purchasing
and global manufacturing
– collaborating to reduce our
upstream climate impact.
To ensure we work systematically
with sustainability all through our
value chain, including the very early
design phase of our products, we
also integrated the Sustainable
Product Solutions (SPS) Toolbox,
an internally developed ecodesign
tool, into our strategic
planning, frontloading and product
development processes starting
in 2018. The SPS Toolbox aims
to help us set specific targets for
reducing the impact of our products
throughout their lifecycle, and it
is now mandatory for all product
development projects to work with
the SPS Toolbox.
Most importantly, we identified
that 98% of our CO2 emissions
can be attributed to downstream
activities, particularly the use
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