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SUEZ Environnement and its subsidiaries are committed in daily life to meet the challenge of preserving resources and protecting eco-systems by providing innovative solutions in the areas of drinking water, sanitation and waste management.

 

 

 

A world leader in water and waste treatment

 

GDF SUEZ’s environmental businesses are grouped around its SUEZ Environnement subsidiary, the world leader that operates exclusively in the water and waste treatment business, in which it has a 35% stake.


Specializing in the management of the rare, vital resource that is water and the treatment and recovery of waste, SUEZ Environnement is developing in two sensitive markets that will see major growth in the long term. Its business areas respond to basic needs and fall under the series of problems facing the planet: demographic pressure, growing urbanization, increasing scarcity of resources and climate warming.

SUEZ Environnement is:  
  • 12.4 billion Euros in Sales,
  • 65,400 employees,
  • 65 million Euros invested in R&D in 2008,
  • 1.6 billion cubic meters of drinking water distributed,
  • 2,5 billion cubic meters of drinking water produced,
  • 2.1 billion cubic meters of wastewater treated,
  • 39.6 million tons of waste treated,
  • 1,107 sites for treating and recovery of waste,
  • more than 500,000 customer in services and industry.

 

Active on every continent, SUEZ Environnement carries out 80% of its activities in Europe. Beyond those borders, it distributes or sanitizes water and treats waste in New York, Hong Kong, Perth, Jakarta, Casablanca, Alger and Barcelona, to name a few.

 

 

Broad expertise in its business areas

 

SUEZ Environnement’s business areas span the entire water value chain:

 

  • collection, treatment and distribution of drinking water,
  • collection and treatment of wastewater, including industrial wastewater,
  • recycling and recovery of wastewater sludge
Water for Bagdad  
In December 2008, Degrémont, a SUEZ Environnement subsidiary, was hired to design, purchase equipment and train and organize Iraqi construction teams for a plant in Bagdad, that was to supply drinking water to four million people.

 

In the waste area, SUEZ Environnement orients its services to waste recycling, now viewed a resource in the value chain of energy production, or towards other recycling subsidiaries (for example, steel, glass, plastic, papers, electronic equipment, and batteries).

 

 

SUBSIDIARIES

Water treatment, waste management

 

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