Greatario and IXOM Watercare used the company's 40-year milestone to spotlight active water mixing for drinking-water and wastewater storage across Canada, announcing on 23 September 2026 a joint push to educate municipalities and operators on the technology Newswire Canada. The campaign frames the tank itself as only part of the water-quality equation, with stratification, disinfectant residual loss, ice, odours, and grease buildup seen as problems that mixing can address.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Greatario marked 40 years of water and wastewater storage infrastructure work in Canada and is using the anniversary to push active mixing with partner IXOM Watercare.
- Through the partnership, Greatario supplies IXOM Watercare's GridBee, SolarBee and IXOM THM Removal System product lines for potable water, wastewater and other applications.
- Target problems include thermal stratification, declining disinfectant residuals, ice in cold climates, and FOG and solids in wet wells.
- Greatario says active mixing is most often introduced during broader storage conversations, not as a direct customer request.
WHAT HAPPENED
Greatario, an Ontario-based storage tank builder, and IXOM Watercare, a US-headquartered mixing technology supplier, have worked together for years, and the Sept. 23 release positions the relationship as a channel to bring active mixing to Canadian utilities, operators and industrial users Newswire Canada. The launch follows Greatario's 40th-anniversary year and is framed as an education effort rather than a new product release.
Jeff Rodger, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Greatario, said the storage tank is only part of the answer. "We've spent 40 years helping communities build and maintain the infrastructure that stores their water, but the outcome our customers ultimately care about isn't the tank itself, it's safe, reliable water and a system that performs the way it should," Rodger said, adding that mixing is often introduced after a customer describes a problem they have not labelled as a mixing issue Newswire Canada.
Bryce Hill, Regional Manager, Midwest and Canada, IXOM Watercare, said the same technology has to fit very different sites. "Water quality challenges are not one-size-fits-all, and neither are the solutions," Hill said, citing drinking-water stratification on one end and wastewater wet-well performance on the other Newswire Canada.
SPECIFICATION READ
The source does not give a project-level flow, capacity, dollar value or specific site, so the engineering picture has to be drawn in class terms and labelled accordingly. Active mixing sits downstream of the main treatment train and bears on two stages: in the clearwell or finished-water reservoir after disinfection, where it supports disinfectant residual and reduces thermal stratification in drinking-water storage; and in the upstream wet well and primary or equalisation zones of a wastewater plant, where it keeps fats, oils and grease and settleable solids in suspension and protects pump performance. The release does not name a specific treatment configuration such as A2O, MBR, MBBR, SBR or UASB, but the applications described sit at the storage/equalisation interface rather than inside the biological reactor itself. For a municipal drinking-water system, typical clearwell residence times fall in the general industry range of roughly 1-3 days at design flow, while wet-well detention in collection systems is often measured in minutes to a few hours; both are values a buyer would want to confirm against their own tank volume and daily demand (general industry range, not from the sources).
If your plant looks like a small-to-mid-sized Canadian municipal drinking-water reservoir with a measurable drop in free chlorine residual through the tank, recurring ice on the top water layer, or a wastewater wet well with repeated FOG pump-outs, this announcement is a signal that mixing is being marketed as a retrofit on the storage side of the train rather than a rebuild of the treatment process. For readers comparing DAF or other tertiary steps, mixing in the upstream wet well is a complementary action and not a substitute for a properly sized Daf Flotation Systems stage downstream. Buyers running Municipal systems in cold regions should treat this as a vendor-led education push and weigh it against their own residual, ice and odour data before specifying equipment.
FAQ
What problem is active mixing meant to solve in a Canadian drinking-water tank?
According to the Sept. 23 release, the main targets are thermal stratification, loss of disinfectant residual, and ice formation in cold-climate potable-water storage, with the technology supplied through Greatario as GridBee, SolarBee and IXOM THM Removal System units Newswire Canada. Capital cost is not stated in the source and would need to be quoted per tank volume (general industry range, not from the sources).
How does mixing fit into a typical wastewater treatment train?
The release positions mixing at the wet well and storage end of the train, where it keeps FOG and solids in suspension and reduces odours, rather than inside the biological reactor. Costs depend on wet-well volume and pumping duty and should be compared against the price of a separate Cost Benchmarks per MGD for Water Treatment Infrastructure 2026 line item (general industry range, not from the sources).
Is this a new product or a relaunch of existing technology?
Newswire Canada describes it as a renewed focus on IXOM Watercare's existing GridBee, SolarBee and IXOM THM Removal System lines, distributed in Canada through Greatario, framed as a 40th-anniversary education push Newswire Canada. Lead times are not given and would have to be confirmed directly with the supplier.
