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Improving Productivity – Maximizing Value
Nalco Water, an Ecolab company, offers mining and mineral processing solutions that combine over 50 years of expertise in mining chemicals, mining automation, and mining control technology. With our best-in-class service provided by over 100 mining sales and service engineers, Nalco Water offers a global network of mining and mineral processing experts, research and development laboratories, and world-class training programs. Contact us today for more information.
Markets We Serve
Your Goals Are Our Goals
The Power of Partnership
Nalco Water partners with mineral processors worldwide to deliver economic and environmental value, through our reliable, cost-effective and safe solutions. Our ultimate goal is to deliver a measurable return on investment.
Put safety first
- Improve environmental safety of the workplace
- Establish and practice safety culture at all levels
Increase profitability
- Increase yield and recovery
- Optimize plant performance
- Reduce total cost of operation
Improve efficiency
- Increase throughput
- Automate operations
- Reduce downtime
Improve quality
- Enhance product grade
- Control moisture content
- Increase selectivity towards valuable minerals
Meet environment, health and safety standards
- Conserve energy
- Reduce water consumption
- Meet environment, health and safety regulations
Flotation 360™
Mineral processing optimization can feel like a moving target. Changing ore, an incorrect formulation or failing to balance recovery and grade can impact your bottom line. But Nalco Water has your solution: Flotation 360. This digital technology helps you maximize productivity and optimize your flotation circuit performance.
Optimize your circuit with the predictive capabilities of Flotation 360
- Improve performance to increase recovery and profitability
- Enhance visibility of potential impacts of future ore changes, allowing for mitigation of any challenges in advance
- Optimize reagent dosing and chemical consumption, improving the total cost of operations
- Reduce maintenance challenges such as float cell valve failures, and spend less time manually troubleshooting
Mining and Mineral Processing Innovations
Collectors | Frothers | Watershed | Road Dust
WaterShed Tailings Dewatering Technology
WaterShed technology allows the mining industry a higher degree of operational flexibility and significantly lower start-up costs than a traditional tailings management solution.
Road Dust Control
Nalco Water offers a comprehensive range of humectant, binder, and resin-based products for road dust control. Improve efficiency and reduce frequency of treatment.
Frothers
Finding the right frother for your froth flotation processes involves balancing the strength to support the maximum particle load, while maintaining mobility to maximize your mass recovery rate. Our offerings deliver measurable results.
Flottec Joins Ecolab
In November 2023, Ecolab acquired Flottec, a renowned flotation technology company. “Flottec brings a broad portfolio of flotation solutions along with deep domain expertise to help Nalco Water expand the value and service that we deliver to our mineral processing customers,” said Carlos Cardounel, VP and GM, Global Mining for Nalco Water.
Flottec Core Values
Relationships
Ultimately, business is about people: Our customers, suppliers, partners, employees and all others we affect. Because of this, we hold the golden rule as our highest value.
Trust, honesty, integrity and respect are critical elements of our success and approach to business.
Cost Effectiveness
We understand the value of money and how to use it cost effectively. Money poorly spent means higher prices or lower profits.
Spending the right amount at the right time on the right things will ensure that we provide maximum value to our customers while generating profit to sustain our business.
Excellence
An excellence mindset is required to provide solutions and develop quality products that exceed our customers' expectations. From our technology approach to our business processes, from the capabilities of our individuals to the efforts of our team, we will strive to be the best and get better every day.
We also understand that excellence in itself is the result of hard work, commitment, leadership and perseverance.
The Mining Industry
We are proud to be part of the great mining industry and pledge to do what is required to be held to its highest standards. We will develop and incorporate into practice the best technologies available to solve the ever-demanding problems faced by our customers.
We will work to improve safety, protect the environment and conduct business with the highest ethics.