Arçelik is looking for partners with whom it can work:
Problem:
Majority of the domestic wastewater as known as ‘grey water’ comes from the households such as washing machine and dishwashers that are our daily lives now. However, it is hard to say that the waste of these households are totally covered since they include countless type contaminants from organic to biological and many by-produtcs and emerging micro-pollutants as well. This leads to a full characterization when it comes to an effective treatment which is inevitable for protecting environment, especially marine and aquatic life since they are under the direct risk of their discharge with the lack of sufficient treatment.
Contribution
As Arçelik (BEKO) , one of the largest household production company of Europe, we believe it is necessary first to characterize the waste of these waste formed by our products, draw a complete picture of the environmental risk due to household waste and then contribute to develop the treatment techniques for special contaminates. Especially the ones which hold the major risk to human health and environment should be the priority.
Conclusion
Our aim would be:
1- Characterize household (laundry or dishwasher) wastewater quality,
2- Risk assessment of based on the characterization,
3- Investigate novel/hybrid treatment techniques to improve wastewater quality.
Arçelik A.Ş. offers products and services around the world with its 30,000 employees, 23 different production facilities in 9 countries (Turkey, Romania, Russia, China, South Africa, Thailand, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan), its 35 sales and marketing companies in 33 countries all over the world and its 12 brands serving products and services in more than 145 countries. The annual production volume of Arçelik is approximately 20 million units. Arçelik Group is the second largest company in home appliances sector in terms of total sales in Europe. Arçelik Group achieved a consolidated turnover of EUR 4.7 Billion in 2018. There are over 1500 R&D employees in R&D Center located in Global. Arçelik participates in EU Framework Programmes since FP5 and had completed 1 FP5, 1FP6, 12 FP7, 8 H2020 projects and still involved in 13 H2020 projects actively.