December 2009. FM Environmental secures €300,000 order for a 1500PE wastewater treatment plant incorporating pump stations, ammonia, nitrate and phosphate reduction and 10 micron drum screen for County Wexford.

November 2009: Final commissioning of a 600 PE Biosam UT treatment plant in Libya. The system uses an existing septic tank as primary settlement, and pumps up the settled wastewater to two media tanks which are followed by two hopper tanks. The effluent goes through sand filtration and chlorination to make it useable as second class water for irrigation.

Mater Dei Hospital, the main hospital in Malta, has won the 2009 Environment Award for Industry in the category of Conservation for Sustainable Development. Mater Dei Hospital was recognised for its adoption of a holistic programme earmarked to consolidate the newly operational building engineering processes geared with environmental protection in mind. Last year, Mater Dei Hospital started using various environmental friendly features which were included in the design phase. One of these features is a greywater recycle system designed, installed and commissioned by FM Environmental (Malta) Ltd. The 240 m3 per day system takes the greywater from wash basins and showers, which is biologically treated and disinfected to a high quality standard suitable for irrigation purposes of its soft and hard landscaping throughout the hospital.

The treatment plant consists of below ground concrete tanks, consisting of an inlet balance tank, aeration basin, sludge and scum returns, tertiary filtration set-up complete with Sodium Hypochlorite disinfection achieving an effluent quality better than 10:10 mg/l BOD, SS. FM Malta also supplied the control panels, associated instrumentation, all mechanical and electrical installation works and process commissioning.

Deon Minnie & Grant Keen from Transtruct in South Africa visited FM Environmental Head Office last week to sign an agreement with Eamon Fitzpatrick to sell our well known product the Grease Guardian, Automatic Grease Trap in South Africa.
Transtruct are based in East London, South Africa.

Environmental Competition – Kirovsk, Russia

FM Environmental has sponsored the Eco Award since the Environmental Competition started. The competition is now in its fourth year and has been a great success. We are amazed at the very high standard throughout and congratulate all of the students who participated in it to improve the quality of life in Kirovsk.

Eamonn Fitzpatrick, Chairman of FM Environmental travelled to Kirovsk to present the awards in person to the students. He stated “It is important that we take pride in our town, our area and our country. Young people can be an example to us all by giving freely so much of their time but it is up to the rest of us to provide the support and encouragement to allow you to do the job.”

Moises Pasquel Muňoz of Equip has been distributing the Grease Guardian to Mexico since the beginning of the year and has been pleased with the reaction of customers to the new units recently installed in a well known supermarket chain.

This product which is already well established around the world is designed to take fats, oils and grease from commercial waste water. The units have been rigorously tested by the control boards and the samples taken have all met the standards. “Installing Grease Guardians has helped the store to meet the strict local regulations” stated Moises.

Moises visit to Newry will also include intense training as this is his first visit to Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland. He will also visit the local attractions and tour through the scenic Mourne Mountains.

Pictured in photograph:
Eamon Fitzpatrick, Manager Grease Guardian Department – FM Environmental Ltd. Moises Pasquel Muňoz, Equip Mexico. Kevin Fitzpatrick, Managing Director – FM Environmental Ltd.

During the past 12 months all Directors and Managers attended the Crestcom Bullet Proof Management Training with Alan Patterson. The training consisted of 24 different modules which was conducted by the Crestcom trainer at the Company’s offices. The training workshops featured exercises taken directly from the acclaimed Bullet Proof Manager Course.

Alan Patterson & Garry McCreery from Crestcom presented the FM Management Team with their certification on the successful completion of the Training. Managing Director Kevin Fitzpatrick commended Crestcom for the training programme:

“We often give employees the authority and responsibility of management without giving them the proper training to back this up. Crestcom Bullet Proof Management Training is an excellent and professionally delivered programme that covers all the fundamentals of management in a simple and practical way.”

Pictured in photograph:
Kevin Fitzpatrick, Noel Mills, Pat Kane, Mario Farrugia, Eamon Fitzpatrick, Nicola Whyte, Des Murphy, Gerry Torley & Ronan Byrne.
Eoin Carragher missing from photo.

FM Environmental Ltd has launched a 10l/s Grease Guardian designed for basement installations. The D10 separates and removes solids and grease and has an inbuilt self cleaning system. The unit has already been supplied by FM to hotels in Malta, Cyprus and Dubai.
FM believe that the D10 gives them an option of a high flow centralized unit which can act as a stand alone product or combined with smaller at source Grease Guardians for complete protection of large facilities.
“The product gives us another option for large applications that produce extraordinary volumes of grease and have large flow rates to deal with” explains Reuben Gauchi Malta Office Manager
The D10 will be used in industrial applications as well as commercial and it highlights FM’s commitment to continuous development to its grease management range of products.