Kampong Ayer in Brunei's capital city of Bandar Seri Begawan is a cluster of around 40 small villages connected by a 38-kilometer (23-mile) boardwalk. It dates back more than 600 years. Today, around 13,000 people live in the water village, about 3% of the country's population. These Water … [Read more...]

What happens when your sewerage network gets too old? Your old clay pipes have cracked or are filled with roots, every time it rains it seems like its a direct line from the clouds to the Treatment Plant. People in the community start asking why you are spending a load of money on treating rainwater … [Read more...]

Flovac's latest project in the Caribbean has opened in Canouan at Glossy Bay Resort and Marina with Flovac providing a plug and play containerized vacuum system and treatment plant.   The system at the Glossy Bay Marina and Resort will support a luxury marina which will accommodate … [Read more...]

A high profile project and one of the largest scale vacuum sewerage systems ever designed had an official opening this month in Bahrain for its key resort project. Reef Island decided to use a Flovac vacuum sewerage system due to the ease and speed of installation compared to using a gravity … [Read more...]

Willem Gooren, one of the founders of Flovac and one of the most respected pioneers of the vacuum sewerage industry has been spending more and more time in the Middle East over the past 6 months as vacuum sewerage systems become the reticulation system, of choice among developers and the Water … [Read more...]

  NORWAY WELCOMES FLOVAC VACUUM SEWERAGE SYSTEMS The Innovation team from Flovac's German Unit under the management of Antje Adler has been appointed by Norway's leading engineering design firm STATSBYGG to supply a Flovac vacuum sewerage system for inclusion in the new Center for Animal … [Read more...]

At the end of 2017, aguasresiduales.info, Spain's leading journal on wastewater and sanitation interviewed Flovac Spain's Technical Director to understand the massive growth in the vacuum sewerage industry in Spain and elsewhere, particularly for Marina and Port infrastructure. This is a … [Read more...]

On the A1 highway into Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana, commuters and visitors are wondering who and what are Flovac Vacuum Sewerage Systems and what is "The Green Future of Sewerage"? Web hits from the African continent have reached new heights and vacuum sewers will reach new … [Read more...]

The Flovac Vacuum Pump Station was installed in 2015 to service the Prestons residential development in Marshlands Christchurch and has continued to grow with house sales in the area ahead of schedule. Every effort has been made by the developer Ngai Tahu to ensure that this medium priced housing … [Read more...]

A FLOVAC delegation was recently in Chile, in the Llay-Llay commune, where the first vacuum sewerage installation of the country is being built. As this technology is innovative for the Chilean technicians, a conference was organized for everyone interested in FLOVAC’s system, having it coincide … [Read more...]

Marina Vela, the newest upscale Marina in the heart of Barcelona has opened for business. The new Marina which utilizes the latest in Flovac vacuum sewer technology has 136 marina berths which can cater for boats up to 50 meters in length. Barcelona's new Hotel W will be attached to the marina … [Read more...]

Flovac Greece has just completed the largest vacuum sewerage system ever undertaken in Greece covering the towns of Mitrousi and Skoutari in the Serres Region of northern Greece. The system which has two large vacuum pump stations, 800 collection pits and 45km of vacuum pipework. The system … [Read more...]

Vacuum sewerage systems are ideal in areas that are subject to flooding Nearly all vacuum sewerage systems are found in coastal area's many of which are subject to flooding from rain/storms or rising sea levels. We all understand the problems that occur if I&I is present, we all know what … [Read more...]

Flovac Wireless Monitoring for Vacuum Systems can be installed easily to existing systems and reduce operational costs and risks quickly. Although we like to believe that vacuum systems are easy to maintain, (and never have problems) the reality is that many operators struggle. The ideal, is to … [Read more...]

  On April 27 2015, Flovac commissioned the vacuum system at the Marina Port Vell in Barcelona. Known as one of the finest new marinas for Super yachts in Europe, the owners saw the use of the Flovac system as essential.   The system designed and installed by FLOVAC includes the … [Read more...]