Commune De Saint Julien De Concelles This historic village nestled on the banks of the Loire River near the French city of Nantes on the Atlantic coast of France is the site of the latest Flovac system in Europe. The site is first mentioned in history books as far back as the year 615 … [Read more...]

  As Flovac has grown in 2016 to be the largest vacuum system designer, operator and supplier in the world, we have started to add a description of vacuum sewer systems in a number of languages to our web page. At the right hand top of our www.flovac.com web page you can now find a … [Read more...]

Flovac Slovenia has achieved an "A" credit rating from the European regulators Over the past two years European regulators have been reviewing companies throughout the 19 member countries. Only a small percentage of companies within Slovenia have achieved the highest possible rating of … [Read more...]

As vacuum sewers are relatively new it is difficult for many engineers to develop good whole of life models when doing a comparative analysis on alternative sewer systems. Although vacuum systems are newcomers to the sewerage industry we are seeing some systems just reaching their 50th … [Read more...]

Vice President  Krzysztof  Ludera of Flovac Poland hosted a gala event to celebrate the groups tenth anniversary in Poland. Flovac has two offices in Poland, in Wrocław, where the main celebrations were held and in Radzionków. Over the past ten years Poland has been the largest user of vacuum … [Read more...]

Flovac engineers from around the world met up last month in a dizzying tour through four countries in Europe visiting projects and discussing important trends in vacuum sewer designs. Four of the engineers traveled all the way from the Australian engineering centre to join colleagues in Flovac's … [Read more...]

  The number one issue facing the Pacific Island countries is Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels. Focusing on Sustainable water development the PWWA held this years conference in Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea. The conference was very well attended by government … [Read more...]

As we all know homeowners will put almost anything down their sewer line. Phones, balls, plastic, pegs, cups and the bane of sewer operators around the world, WET WIPES. Flovac recently created a new video showing what items can go through the Flovac vacuum valve. We asked operators around the … [Read more...]

    On the 29th of May, the infra team  of WEB NV successfully completed the Flovac operators training course held on the Caribbean island of Bonaire. During the last few years, a complete Flovac vacuum sewerage system  has been installed on this island. In total there are 1100 … [Read more...]

One of Europe's largest vacuum systems and certainly the largest vacuum sewerage system in Slovenia has commenced operation in the Municipality of Brezovica. The system will have 6 Vacuum Pump Stations and over 1,500 Flovac valves. The municipality is located just south of the capital  Ljubljana, … [Read more...]

  Over the Northern winter we read with interest a number of stories related to frozen vacuum systems  which were caused by some of the worst winters seen in 100 years in the North East of America. These stories have increased in recent years with some commentators talking about the … [Read more...]