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IRRIGATION

BRISBANE’S AIS WATER HONORED FOR SUSTAINABLE

PRODUCT EXCELLENCE AT QUEENSLAND AWARDS

“When compared with conventional
liquid or granular chlorine dosing, AIS ARAGON’S NEW
Water’s technology saves pool operators
and owners substantial ongoing invest- AGRO TEXTILES FOR
ment by way of more stable water chem-
istry,” Ms. Gosse added. DRIFT CONTROL
“There is also a reduced spend on
chemicals, reduced storage require- According to the latest annual report
ments, reduced plant requirements of Legambiente “Stop pesticidi”, one-
Based AIS Water has scooped the pool (space), reduced corrosion on pool third of the Italian fruit and vegetables
at this year’s QLD Swimming Pool & Spa equipment and surrounds, improved air show traces of fungicides. Only 1.3%,
Association (SPASA) Awards after being quality and reduced OH&S risks for staff however, is outlawed, while everything
named the Gold Winner in the ‘Sustain- and patrons due to NO requirement to else is contained within the allowed lim-
able Product’ category for its range of handle or store chlorine.” its. Abroad, the situation is far more wor-
water-saving EcoLine and AutoChlor AIS Water has received the prestigious rying, with 4% of the fruit and vegetables
pool chlorinators. SPASA Climate Care certification for its being irregular. In this context, the fruit
The award follows on from the acco- products also. is the category that presents the greatest
lade of being named the QLD winner of Blake Pearl, AIS Water’s Technical Di- residual problems, with only 36% of the
the best ‘Marketing Campaign’ category rector and a key member of the com- samples analyzed having no traces.
award. pany’s Executive Leadership Team, was
AIS Water won the Sustainable Prod- also highly commended at this year’s
uct Award for its range of chlorine gen- SPASA Awards in the Operational Excel-
erators including AutoChlor (for salt lence category.
and seawater pools) and EcoLine (for Blake, who has been with AIS Water for
freshwater/ultra-low salinity pools), eight years, leads the Customer/Client
both used in residential and commercial Service Experience in providing solu-
swimming pools. tions for their water disinfection needs
The 2020 SPASA Sustainable Product and is the conduit between customers
Award was open to products already and the R&D team, providing valuable
available on the market which promote feedback on user experience.
sustainability for water and/or energy “We are so excited to see Blake be
use, operational efficiency of cost-effec- Highly Commended in the category for The problem of treatments in agricul-
tiveness - and has quantifiable data to Operational Excellence,” Ms. Gosse said ture is therefore of topical relevance, also
prove it. enthusiastically. “He is such a critical with respect to the promotion of healthy
nutrition and aimed at enhancing sus-
Research undertaken by Griffith Uni- part of our team and his input has been tainable production, an objective at the
versity revealed AIS’ technology can save invaluable in helping our clients and center of Arrigoni Group philosophy.
1.6 million liters of water annually in just customers to have professional and per-
one 50-meter pool when compared with sonable experience when dealing with Arrigoni, an international leader in the
conventional liquid or granular chlorine AIS. technical textile sector for agriculture, is
dosing in swimming pools. This equates “This is central to our approach and now approaching fruticulture in an inno-
to AUD$40,000 in water rates savings for vision at AIS Water. As part of our com- vative and original way, proposing two
that one pool every year. mitment to sustainability, we are deter- new solutions to harmonize on the one
hand the needs of professionals in the
“AIS Water’s technology demonstrated mined to share our vision and purpose primary sector, who still need to carry
vastly superior performance with stable in promoting a deeper understanding of out treatments within the permitted lim-
water chemistry, thus significantly dimin- the most precious resource we have on its, on the other the world of distribution
ishing the need to add harsh chemicals, our planet which is water.” and the final consumer, who demand a
reducing associated health and safety AIS Water has more than 25 years’ ex- product where the residues are as con-
risks, and most importantly, eliminating perience in water disinfection and its tained as possible, or completely absent.
the need to ‘dump’ water,” the research systems can now be found in 55 coun-
ANTI-DERIVA GREY® is a fabric spe-
concluded. tries worldwide including 90 QLD school cially designed to reduce the drift of
“It was found that AIS Water’s technol- pools and in 16 out of 22 Brisbane City the sprays deriving from the spraying
ogy, is the most economical and environ- Council municipal pools. of pesticides, while ANTI-DERIVA GREY
mentally favorable system for swimming The SPASA QLD recognition demon- PRO® is a very dense flat-meshed net,
pool water disinfection.” strates that AIS’ inline chlorine genera- made for the same purposes. The effec-
AIS CEO Elena Gosse said AIS Water’s tion technology via electrolysis is sim- tiveness of both solutions has been test-
systems also demonstrated outstanding pler, safer, and smarter by taking all the ed directly in the field, thanks to tests
operational efficiency, potentially sig- guesswork out of pool water chlorination conducted by the Edmund Mach Foun-
nificantly reducing capital expenditure while simultaneously saving water, time, dation, which has always been close to
over time. money, and energy. agriculture professionals.
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