Group structure - BWT Group

THE COMPANY
The Best Water Technology group
of companies was founded in 1990
from an MBO of the Benckiser
Group, Ludwigshafen in Germany,
and today the BWT Group with its
54 subsidiaries and associates is
the leading water technology company
in Europe. BWT has pledged
itself to the entire water cycle -
from source back to earth – and
accordingly, the business areas of
drinking water, swimming pool
water, process and waste water
were consistently expanded.
The Best Water Technology Group
maintains production plants at four
main sites - in Paris, France;
Schriesheim, Germany; Tamasi,
Hungary; and Mondsee, Austria, as
well as at the associate Christ AG
at Aesch in Switzerland. All the
basic technologies for water treatment
applications, disinfection
technologies such as UV- and
ozone plants are as much part of
the programme as ion-selective
membranes, electrical desalination
plants, ion exchangers, membrane
plants (reverse osmosis, nanofiltration,
microfiltration, ultrafiltration)
and the new AQA total Technology
- the first technology worldwide for
drinking water treatment without
the use of salt – and the unique
FuMATech High-Performance
Proton Exchange Membrane which
will revolutionise the fuel cell technology.
Research and development
are carried out at four sites.
Growth through innovation is life.
Growth through geographic expansion
is the engine for long term
dynamic company development.
BWT subsidiaries and associates
are now present in every European
country with the exception of
– 10 –
Scandinavia. We purchased or
founded companies in North and
South America and in Asia during
the past few years; these will carry
out sales and engineering in the
local markets.
It is the goal of the BWT Group to
build on its leading position in
Europe by means of consistent
internationalisation, bearing in
mind BWT’s value strategy. The
basis for this continued dynamic
development in an increasingly
fast-changing market are maximised
profits. They are the basis for
financing BWT’s growth strategy in
the most interesting world market:
„WATER”.