Smart Water Solutions. Local Expertise. Global Impact
Established in the UK for over 20 years, we operate from six strategic locations, employ a workforce of over 400 skilled professionals, and currently operate and maintain more than 30 water treatment assets on behalf of our clients.
We serve Municipal, Industrial, and Commercial clients across a wide range of sectors, supporting them with bespoke solutions for Drinking Water, Wastewater, Process Water, Water Reuse, and Resource Recovery. Whether it’s ensuring compliance for utilities, enhancing operational efficiency for manufacturers, or enabling circular water use in commercial facilities, our team of experienced professionals is committed to delivering results that are sustainable, efficient, and reliable.
Our mission, #MissionWater, is brought to life through our ‘Customer for Life’ philosophy — a long-term partnership approach that begins with understanding your challenges and continues with delivering performance and value throughout the lifecycle of your assets. Through our integrated approach to Technology, Services, and Solutions, and our commitment to the 4R Principle — Reduce, Reuse, Remove, Recover — we help turn water and wastewater challenges into opportunities for resilience and resource optimisation.

About Us
Our Mission
At NSI UK & Ireland, we believe water is our planet’s most precious resource, and it’s time everyone treats it that way. Our purpose is to be an advocate for water, ensuring that municipalities, industries, communities, and individuals across the UK and Ireland truly value it.
Beyond our daily work of providing reliable water supplies and responsible treatment solutions, we’re committed to acting and influencing others. Together, we can invest in saving water and innovate new models to preserve this vital resource.
For too long, we’ve treated clean water as an endless, cheap commodity, overlooking its true worth, but with increasing pressure on water quantity and quality, it’s clear this resource desperately needs revaluing – environmentally, socially, economically, and technologically. It’s time to turn the tide – we need to ensure water is valued as the revitalising force it has always been, making its benefits accessible to all.
We call this #MissionWater. Are you ready to join the movement and help us secure a sustainable water future for the UK and Ireland?
Global Expertise, Local Impact
At NSI UK & Ireland, you get the best of both worlds: global knowledge combined with deep local experience. Our extensive network of regional sales and service offices, local agents, and trusted business partners ensures you receive tailored solutions that are not only backed by world-class engineering expertise but also delivered with dedicated on-the-ground support. Every project we undertake is developed by multidisciplinary teams, seamlessly integrating global innovation with invaluable local insight to meet your unique needs.
Added value services
At NSI UK & Ireland, we provide end-to-end project delivery, seamlessly managing your water and wastewater projects from initial design to final commissioning. We specialize in turnkey solutions and offer a comprehensive portfolio of supporting services to ensure your project’s success.
Our expert teams handle every aspect, including:
- Design Works (utilizing 3D modeling)
- Pilot Testing
- Process & Process Design Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- On-site Supervision & Coordination
- Installation, Commissioning & Servicing
- i-Monitoring
- Laboratory services
- Compliance (legionella, boiler water, cooling water)
- Flood risk
- Energy management systems (municipal, industrial, commercial)
Our approach
End-to-end partnerships at every stage of your plant’s life cycle.
Whatever your type of water, flow (small, mid or large) and industry, we support you in every stage of the water cycle and your plant’s life cycle. At Nijhuis Saur Industries (NSI), part of Saur Group, we deliver peace of mind, performance, and true partnership.
From first concept to long-term optimization, our integrated approach — design, build, operate, and maintain — helps you reduce environmental impact, ensure compliance, and maximize value. We offer a one-stop-shop services including engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, financing, and even ownership.
NSI is your trusted partner for drinking & ingredient water, offshore/energy, wastewater, process water, or waste-to-energy, decentralized systems, mobile water or large-scale installations.
Our Services
Wastewater Treatment
Our wastewater treatment solutions are tailored to meet the specific needs of municipalities and industries, ensuring both regulatory compliance and sustainable outcomes. We employ a multi-stage approach, starting with primary treatment to remove solids and grit. Secondary treatment utilizes biological processes to reduce organic matter, followed by advanced tertiary treatment (like membrane filtration and nutrient removal) for more stringent requirements. Our solutions are customised for various industries, incorporating industry-specific technologies and resource recovery options. Additionally, we manage sludge treatment and disposal, employing techniques like thickening, dewatering, digestion, and sustainable disposal practices to minimize environmental impact and maximize value.
Drinking and Process Water Production
We design, build, and operate water treatment plants to produce safe, potable drinking water that meets the most stringent quality standards. For industries requiring high-quality process water (such as manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and food processing), we offer tailored solutions. Our expertise includes industry-leading technologies for filtration, purification, softening, and disinfection, ensuring improved water quality and enhanced operational efficiency
Commercial Buildings
NSI Commercial Buildings Solutions are a broad-spectrum water treatment and building services provider.
Offering a total solutions approach to a wide range of clients’ commercial buildings, NSI CBS deal with a vast array of projects as diverse as data centres, industrial sites, schools, universities, and heritage sites.
Our extensive capabilities include:
Boilers & Cooling Towers:
Chemical treatment, service, and compliance with complete treatment systems, including dosing, control, automation and pretreatment. Process water equipment (for example RO and Softeners), sales & service and installation.
Legionella Control:
A founding member of the Legionella Control Association with a dedicated nationwide team delivering comprehensive water and air (full HVAC) hygiene and compliance, we deliver a wide range of services including risk assessments. With expertise on call 24/7 and UKAS water testing, we are a partner that can be trusted to keep your building compliant.
i-Maintenance:
Our i-Maintenance division offers innovative energy building management and encompasses many aspects of building maintenance and compliance.
Water Hygiene Services:
Water systems tested and cleaned to meet your legal obligations with detailed documentation of works, system status and any advisories.
Repairs and installation of new storage tanks and equipment carried out in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Water Treatment Services:
We provide comprehensive water treatment services across the UK. All work is carried out in accordance with current legislation and following guidelines from relevant regulatory and advisory bodies.
Boiler Water Treatment | Closed System Water Treatment | Cooling Water Treatment | Effluent Water Treatment | Water Pre-Treatment
Air Quality Services:
We provide Air Quality Services across the United Kingdom. All work is carried out in accordance with current legislation and following guidelines from relevant regulatory and advisory bodies. View details of our specific air quality provisions:
Air Quality Monitoring | Ventilation System Services | Kitchen Extract System Management & Cleaning | Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) Services
Booster Sets & Pressurisation Vessels:
Reliable, high-efficiency equipment that is custom-designed to cause minimal disruption to the existing services at the time of installation and commissioning.
Shower & Tap Systems:
We provide a wide range of high-efficiency shower room/bathroom solutions for clients that demand quality products with minimal maintenance and low water consumption. Our specially constructed fixtures, coupled with expert compliance-focused system design, ensuring customer satisfaction, safe water distribution and long term reliability.
Specialist Coating Service:
Fully refurbished and relined water storage tanks and cooling towers with documentation, photographs and specification of works. Full ACoP L8 Compliance.
Energy Management Services:
We provide Energy/Utilities management and reporting, complete with solutions for consumption / financial savings and calculated paybacks. A monthly energy report would be produced representing the consumption of Water, Gas and Electricity.
Legionella Training Services:
We offer an extensive range of legionella training courses, seminars, and practical skills-based workshops that have been specifically developed to meet the needs of candidates at all levels of technical competence and experience.
Discover our solutions
- Municipal
- Industrial
Byosis Services
- Resource Recovery
- Industrial water
- Sludge
- Process water
- Wastewater
At Byosis, part of Nijhuis Saur Industries, we offer a Service Level Agreement which helps you achieve optimal performance and reliability of your ByoFlex® and/or ByoPast® installation. (...)
Ion Exchange – SIX®
- Drinking water
- Micropollutants
SIX® is an advanced suspended ion exchange process developed by PWNT to remove naturally occurring organic matter (NOM) and other dissolved contaminants from surface water. By (...)
Gas liquid contact system – Crescendo®
- Process water
- Industrial water
Crescendo® is an innovative technology that combines multiple functions into one compact system. Whether it’s evaporating and thickening liquids, stripping or cooling gases, (...)
Media filtration – Disc filter
- Drinking water
- Wastewater
- Industrial water
Discfilter for effluent polishing Water flows into rotating discs lined with micro fabric, filtering from the inside out. Solids stick to the panels, clean water passes through. (...)
- Industrial
Services: Anaerobic wastewater treatment & biogas
- Wastewater
- Resource Recovery
In the end, it’s not just the equipment that treats your wastewater, it’s the whole process. At Econvert, part of Nijhuis Saur Industries, we offer various anaerobic wastewater (...)
- Industrial
Pasteurization – ByoPast®
- Resource Recovery
- Sludge
- Wastewater
- Industrial water
- Process water
To allow digestate produced from food- or animal by-products to be used or sold as a fertilizer and soil improver according to environmental legislation, pasteurization is needed. (...)
- Industrial
Anaerobic – Econvert Anaerobic Rental
- Wastewater
- Industrial water
- Resource Recovery
We understand that CAPEX is not always readily available to invest in anaerobic wastewater treatment, or that you may want to avoid long-term financial commitments. At Econvert, (...)
- Industrial
Anaerobic – Econvert-DGF®
- Resource Recovery
- Industrial water
- Wastewater
The Econvert-DGF® (Dissolved Gas Flotation) is an anaerobic solution developed to treat raw wastewater with high concentrations of total suspended solids (TSS) and fats, oils, (...)
- Municipal
Digital solution – Hydranet
- Wastewater
- Drinking water
Real-Time Energy Optimization for Water Networks Hydranet is Riventa’s digital platform designed to monitor, analyze, and optimize the performance of pumps, blowers, fans, and (...)
- Industrial
- Municipal
Filter – FlooScreen™
- Drinking water
- Process water
- Industrial water
- Wastewater
FlooScreen™ screening units are advanced filtration systems designed for industries, communities where high capacities of high-quality water screening is necessary to efficiently (...)
- Municipal
- Industrial
DAF – High rate concrete i-DAF
- Industrial water
- Drinking water
- Wastewater
Concrete i-DAF is a powerful and compact solution for removing solids from water and wastewater. Designed for large flow rates and small loads and built in concrete basins, it’s (...)
- Municipal
- Industrial
NSI Digital Platform
- PFAS
- Micropollutants
- Wastewater
- Drinking water
- Source water
- Rainwater
- Resource Recovery
- Sludge
- Process water
- Industrial water
NSI Digital Solutions’ Platform and our other services and designed are developed to combine deep industry expertise with advanced digital capabilities, supporting industrial (...)
- Industrial
Anaerobic – Econvert-RTF®
- Wastewater
- Industrial water
The Econvert-RTF® is a regenerative trickling filter which achieves high H₂S removal efficiency, consumes no caustic soda and enables aerobic effluent reuse. The technology (...)
- Municipal
- Industrial
Anaerobic – Econvert-Dsulph®
- Resource Recovery
- Industrial water
- Sludge
- Wastewater
Econvert-Dsulph® is a proven, high-efficiency biogas desulfurization solution that combines the chemical absorption of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in the scrubber with the biological (...)
- Municipal
- Industrial
Ammonia stripper – ByoFlex®
- Resource Recovery
- Industrial water
- Sludge
- Wastewater
- Process water
With the revolutionary ByoFlex® system nitrogen is recovered from highly contaminated substrates. The ByoFlex® system is a one-of-a-kind ammonia stripping unit. Through years (...)
- Industrial
- Municipal
Screw press – NSP
- Industrial water
- Sludge
- Wastewater
The sludge dewatering screw press from NSI (NSP) offers a cost-effective and sustainable solution for sludge dewatering. Designed to treat both primary and biological sludge, the (...)
- Industrial
Membrane – DEEPEST®
- Wastewater
- Industrial water
- Process water
The Deepest System® is a patented multi-stage, multi-membrane purification system developed by Sodai. It employs sequential microfiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis (...)
Membrane – CeraMac®
- Drinking water
CeraMac® is an innovative and cost-effective ceramic membrane filtration solution, designed to provide high-performance, sustainability, and robustness to water treatment processes. (...)
- Municipal
- Industrial
Aerobic – BIOCTOR-FlooBed®
- Wastewater
- Industrial water
A highly efficient and compact biological treatment process to treat a wide variety of industrial and municipal wastewater streams and ensure environmental compliance. The patented (...)
- Municipal
- Industrial
Anaerobic – Econvert-IR®
- Wastewater
- Industrial water
The Econvert-IR® (Internal Recirculation) is designed to create the ideal process conditions – even under extreme conditions. Thanks to its unique two-stage settling system, (...)
- Industrial
Anaerobic – Econvert-UASB®
- Wastewater
- Industrial water
The Econvert-UASB® (Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket) has a proven track record for decades. Its robust and reliable configuration enables the handling of large varieties of wastewater (...)
- Industrial
Anaerobic – Econvert-EGSB®
- Wastewater
Econvert-EGSB® (Expanded Granular Sludge Bed) is the optimal solution after decades of experience, development and optimization. Combining a small footprint with robust internals (...)
- Municipal
- Industrial
DAF – FlooDaf®
- Process water
- Industrial water
- Resource Recovery
- Wastewater
- Sludge
- Drinking water
A high-capacity, compact flotation solution for various large-scale water and wastewater treatment applications enabling raw material recovery, decreased water consumption and (...)
- Municipal
Flocculation-coagulation – ILCA®
- Drinking water
In-Line Coagulation and Adsorption ILCA® is a compact in-line coagulation and adsorption process developed by PWNT to simplify and optimise pre-treatment upstream of advanced (...)
- Municipal
- Industrial
Filter – IntenSieve®
- Wastewater
- Industrial water
- Resource Recovery
The IntenSieve® is a rotating belt finesieve. A compact, chemical-free finesieving solution that removes suspended solids and frees biological capacity.
Our References
- Municipal
- Municipal drinking water
Mayflower Water Treatment Works (South West Water)
Commissioned by South West Water and officially opened in 2020, the Mayflower Water Treatment Works replaces the aging Crownhill plant in Plymouth. Serving about 250,000 residents , it meets increased urban demand and tightens regulation.
The project introduced a groundbreaking combination of technologies (SIX®, ILCA®, CeraMac®) following a pilot at Crownhill (2013–2015), addressing key challenges such as:
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Delivering a compact, low-footprint footprint design in a constrained site
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Removing dissolved organic carbon (DOC), pesticides, and microorganisms to meet stringent water quality standards
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Reducing chemical usage, energy costs, and operating expenses
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Ensuring reliable long-term operation and automatable performance
- Food & Beverage
- Industrial
Sharp’s Brewery Wastewater Treatment Plant
Context
To support its growing production and reduce environmental impact, Sharp’s Brewery in Rock, Cornwall, invested in a sustainable wastewater treatment solution. As the first brewery in South West England to adopt UASB technology, Sharp’s aimed to turn wastewater into a resource—recovering energy and reducing its liquid waste footprint. The brewery needed a compact, efficient, and future-ready system that aligned with its environmental ambitions.
Solution
Nijhuis Saur Industries (NSI), part of Saur Group, designed, built, and commissioned a turnkey wastewater treatment plant for Sharp’s Brewery. The system includes a curved screen for spent grain recovery, a flocculation-flotation (DAF) unit for solids removal, and an AECOMIX™ UASB reactor for anaerobic digestion. A flash aeration step removes hydrogen sulfide before discharge. The biogas produced is reused on-site, supporting Sharp’s sustainability goals and reducing reliance on external energy sources
Contact our experts
NSI UK & Ireland - Truro Office
Main Office
Nanjerrick Court,
Allet
Truro
TR4 9DJ
United Kingdom
NSI UK & Ireland - Wokingham Office
15 Metro Centre,
Toutley Road
Wokingham
RG41 1QW
United Kingdom
NSI UK & Ireland - Stoke Office
NSI Mobile Water Solutions UK Ltd
Whittle Road
Stoke-on-Trent,
ST3 7QD
United Kingdom
NSI UK & Ireland - Grangemouth Office
Dundas Building – North Gate
Earls Road
Grangemouth
FK3 8XG
United Kingdom
NSI UK & Ireland - Gainsborough Office
Unit 33,
Corringham Road Industrial Estate,
Gainsborough,
DN21 1QB
United Kingdom
NSI UK & Ireland - Wallsend Office
Town Hall Chambers,
High Street East
Wallsend,
NE28 7AT
United Kingdom
NSI UK & Ireland - Wynyard Office
Evolution1, Wynyard Avenue,
Wynyard Park,
Billingham,
TS22 5TB
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