Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
Heat + low pH
Life adapted to hot, acidic geothermal habitats.
Extremophile biotechnology tailored to industrial wastewater
Nature’s best
Nature’s best
fighters.
For industry.
Bacter selects the best microorganisms for each wastewater treatment. Starting from the physicochemical composition of the wastewater, all the way to plant implementation and active maintenance.
VOLCANIC LANDSCAPES
Think your wastewater is too hot for biology?
Life thrives in the hot springs around volcanoes. Heat does not always rule biology out.
Adapt, Grow, Win. EVOLUTION MADE THEM. BACTER BRINGS THEM TO INDUSTRY. Adapt, Grow, Win.
Evolution at work
Nature already solved harder environments.
Long before industry created difficult wastewater, evolution had already shaped microbes for heat, cold, pressure, acidity and scarcity. Think your wastewater is too harsh for biology? Look where life already thrives.
Psychrobacter arcticus
Extreme cold
A cold-adapted species associated with environments where biological activity must continue at low temperature.
Shewanella benthica
High pressure + no sunlight
A deep-sea example of microbial life shaped by pressure, darkness and limited resources.
Thermus aquaticus
Near-boiling water
An iconic hot-spring microorganism and a reminder that heat can be a habitat, not only a stress.
Wastewater / best-fit microbes / plant deployment / maintenance.
Wastewater
We analyse your water to understand its pollutants, changing conditions and treatment needs.
Best-fit microbes
We select complementary microbes and test how well they treat your specific wastewater.
Plant deployment
We physically introduce selected microorganisms into your existing treatment tanks — as inoculated sludge or on a biofilm bed or carriers, depending on the plant configuration.
Maintenance
We monitor treatment performance and support adjustments to keep the biological process working reliably.
What we offer
One biology platform.
One biology platform.
Three ways into your plant.
Every plant is different. We adapt how Bacter is deployed to the infrastructure already on site — or build a modular treatment unit where new capacity is needed.
01 / 03EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
Retrofit.
Upgrade the tanks you already have.
For suitable existing flotation, storage or filtration tanks, Bacter introduces tailored microbial biomass grown as biofilm on carrier media. We integrate the carriers and monitoring into the existing treatment line.
- Biofilm carriers placed in existing tanks
- Monitoring integrated with plant operations
- Designed around variable wastewater loads
02 / 03BIOLOGICAL UPGRADE
Replacement.
A different biomass, in the same tank.
For existing oxidation tanks, Bacter replaces conventional activated sludge with specialized microbial biomass selected for the wastewater. The aim is to improve treatment efficiency and reduce the aeration required, subject to site-specific validation.
- Existing oxidation tank retained
- Specialized biomass instead of conventional sludge
- Potential for lower aeration demand
03 / 03NEW TREATMENT CAPACITY
New plant.
Modular treatment, ready to scale.
When a site needs new treatment infrastructure, Bacter develops modular biofilm bioreactors with microbial consortia and monitoring built in. Modules can be connected in series for difficult wastewater or in parallel for higher flows.
- Modular biofilm bioreactors
- Series or parallel configurations
- Remote monitoring and active maintenance
Every installation starts with a feasibility study and wastewater-specific testing. Final configurations and performance targets depend on the actual plant.
See our approachIndustrial reality
We don’t leave our ideas in the lab.
Real wastewater. Real plants. Solutions built to scale. We test our biology with industrial wastewater and design its integration around real tanks, infrastructure and operating constraints — from feasibility to pilot-scale validation.
REAL WATER
Why this matters
We learn from nature so industry can leave less of itself in nature.
Industrial wastewater is rarely uniform. Temperature, salinity, pollutants and flow rates change — sometimes faster than conventional biological systems can adapt. Nature offers microorganisms that have evolved to function across demanding environments; Bacter studies that resilience and applies it to industrial treatment challenges.
The goal is concrete: make better use of existing treatment infrastructure, explore alternatives to intensive chemical or energy inputs, and develop processes that remain reliable when water quality changes. Every proposal is evaluated against the actual wastewater, with treatment targets and measurable operating results.
That is why we connect microorganism selection to feasibility studies, experimental campaigns, pilot-scale validation and active monitoring. Scientific insight matters only when it becomes a treatment solution an industrial operator can actually run.
Let’s talk wastewaterDifficult water?
Difficult water?
Let’s work on it.
Tell us about your wastewater. Share a few details to prepare a feasibility inquiry for our team.