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The environmental services activities are joined within the subsidiary SUEZ Environnement, which is 35.4% owned by GDF SUEZ. As the global leader exclusively dedicated to the water and waste business areas, SUEZ Environnement provides 91 million people with drinking water and collects the waste of 50 million people.

 

 

 

 

A specialist in managing water, a scarce vital resource, and waste treatment and recovery, Suez Environnement grapples with planetary problems: demographic pressure, increasing urbanization, global warming, increasing scarcity of resources…

 

For these vital issues, SUEZ Environnement offers its customers concrete solutions to reconcile economic performance and ecological performance.

 

The GDF SUEZ strategy is based on a model of sustainable development to bring essential services to the greatest number of people while preserving natural resources. Through research and innovation projects, SUEZ Environnement proposes moving from a model that was based on the concept of volume to a model oriented towards value: recycling of waste water, desalination of sea water, recovery of waste

 

SUEZ Environment in figures  
  • €13.9 billion in revenues,
  • 79,550 employees,
  • €73.3 million invested in R&D in 2010,
  • 3.8 billion m3 of drinking water produced,
  • 3 billion m3 of treated waste water treated,
  • 50 million people provided with waste collection services.

 

 

 

Broad expertise in its areas of activity

The business areas of SUEZ Environnement cover the entire water value chain:

 

  • studies, information system strategic plans, modelling of the underground resources, project management,
  • engineering, design and construction of water treatment plants,
  • operation and delegation of services: collection, treatment and distribution of drinking water, maintenance of networks, collection and treatment of municipal and industrial waste water, process water, recovery of purification sludges.

 

In the field of waste, SUEZ Environnement handles:

 

  • the collection of waste of any sort (excluding radioactive waste) and urban sanitation,
  • sorting and pretreatment of waste,
  • recycling and material, biological and waste-to-energy recovery of reusable waste and elimination by incineration or burial for residual waste.

 

Although 80% of the activities are concentrated in Europe, SUEZ Environnement is present on five continents and particularly in Hong Kong, Perth, Jakarta, Casablanca, Algiers, Barcelona, etc.

 

 
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SUBSIDIARIES

Water treatment, waste management

 

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