Sustainable wastewater treatment in the automotive industry
The automotive industry is one of the most diverse branches of industry—both in terms of production processes and the wastewater they generate. Whether it's bodywork, drive manufacturing, electroplating, or painting: every step generates process-related water that is often contaminated with oils, emulsions, surfactants, metals, or other critical substances.
With our atmospheric evaporators , we offer an economical, safe, and resource-saving solution for treating this wastewater—individually adaptable to your requirements, modularly expandable, and robust in continuous operation.
Save water, reduce costs, comply with limits
The production of a car requires hundreds of thousands of liters of water—from the raw materials to washing the vehicle before delivery. In this context, sustainability means: recycling water instead of disposing of it at great expense. MKR systems make this possible:
- reducing the amount of wastewater
- reusing the purified distillate in the process
- complying with all legal discharge limits
- achieving massive savings in disposal and fresh water
Versatile applications in automotive manufacturing
MKR systems are used in numerous areas of the automotive industry:
Foundry / Die casting
Washing water containing release agents, emulsions, and hydrocarbons can be reliably treated.
Press plant
Wastewater containing oils and auxiliary materials from forming technology is efficiently separated and concentrated.
Paint pretreatment
Washing and rinsing water from car body treatment usually contains surfactants, paint residues, and metal ions
Electroplating, hardening, heat treatment
This process produces water containing salt and heavy metals, which is safely treated by pH adjustment, filtration, and evaporation.
Motoren-& Getriebebau
Cooling lubricant emulsions, drilling and grinding fluids are treated, and the clear distillate can be reused
Testing & Washing systems
Crack testing fluids or parts cleaning fluids containing fluorescent residues, salts, or fats can be treated reliably using MKR systems.
Electronics manufacturing in vehicles
Cleaning water from the production of control units, sensors, or on-board electronics can also be efficiently treated.
Your advantages at a glance
Robust, low-maintenance technology for continuous industrial use
Individually designed for your specific wastewater
Modular expandability – even with growing water demand
Using distillate efficiently in the production process – saves costs & Resources
Many years of experience in the automotive and supplier industry
Areas of application
Typical wastewater types in the automotive industry
Typische Abwasserarten in der Automobilindustrie
- Washing water contaminated with oils, waxes, fats
- Cooling lubricant emulsions, drilling and grinding agents
- Electroplating and hardening water containing metals and salts
- Paint residues and rinsing water
- Electronic manufacturing wastewater containing a wide variety of residues
- Cleaning and crack testing water
Optimize processes efficiently and sustainably
Would you like to make your production more sustainable, economical, and compliant?
With MKR, you get a customized solution—from analysis to commissioning.
CASESTUDY - RINSING WATER FROM BATTERY CELL PRODUCTION
Frequently asked questions
Our Evaporator systems
Maximum energy efficiency through mechanical vapor compression: Our fully automatic evaporators consume only 35 Wh/liter. Recover hygienized distillate of the highest quality for direct reuse in your production.
Our ultrafiltration systems
Our UC series uses purely mechanical ultrafiltration to separate particles, oils, and emulsions—completely without chemicals. Extend the service life of your cleaning baths many times over and ensure the consistently high quality of your process fluids.
