For the past two years, there has been a lot of news about a “new” contaminant, “PFAS,” which has caused a lot of inconvenience in the construction and soil industries. Recently it was demonstrated in America that there is a bacterium that breaks down this worrying group of substances. Geofoxx …
Today we celebrate 7½ years Orvion and we launch Orvion Udetect®. With Udetect you can quickly and accurately analyse bacteria in water, such as E. Coli, Salmonella, Cyanobacteria and Legionella! Normally this is done in the lab with cultivation techniques. This takes a long time and is often tricky: samples …
The year 2020 has begun! At Orvion we look back on a year full of innovation. Below are a few of our highlights of 2019. We are proud of what we have achieved and will continue to commit ourselves to creating a cleaner and more sustainable world in 2020. Field …
ETBE and MTBE are used as oxygenate gasoline additives in petrol. In groundwater, the substances are mobile and poorly degradable (especially anaerobically). Under oxygen-rich conditions MTBE and ETBE can be biodegraded via TBA into harmless end products. Various bacteria are involved in this degradation. At an industrial site in Rotterdam …
Developments in the field of biotechnology provide new opportunities for ongoing soil remediations and monitoring. Every year there are new publications about micro-organisms that are capable of degrading contaminants; for example the publication in 2017 of the discovery of a benzene-degrading bacterial species. With our up-to-date knowledge and DNA technology, …
Looking for the cheapest remediation solution? Let nature do the work! Orvion develops remediation techniques using natural degradation processes. Only where nature is itself unable to degrade the contaminants, do we add carbon source, nutrients and/or bacterial cultures. Our motto is: remediate with the hand on the purse strings. Because …
