Parkson Launches Biggest WashPress on Market, for Outsized Jobs

Ft. Lauderdale – Parkson Corp. has introduced an even larger version of its popular Aqua WashPress^®, which integrates with Parkson screen systems to handle some of the biggest jobs in wastewater and industrial water treatment.

“This new Aqua WashPress^® is a heavy-duty system that we designed to satisfy the demands of special, large-scale applications,” said Dave Mitchell, commercial director of Parkson’s headworks systems. “We see the market shifting toward plant designs that incorporate sluiced flows with high water volumes, and this product can manage the load.”

Modern plant designs no longer require an individual press for each screen in the headworks. Instead, water-driven sluices carry the screenings of multiple screens into a single large WashPress, thus creating a simpler system with fewer moving parts. The end result can be a more cost-effective design with minimal maintenance needs.

“Parkson has been building screens for more than four decades, and we know that it’s crucial to have all these systems work together in unison for the headworks to operate successfully,” said Mitchell.

In all sizes, the Aqua WashPress^® is a low-maintenance system that ties in directly with the screen, to operate only when the screen is active, and as needed. By minimizing the size and weight of dewatered solids, the design is a cost-effective and efficient way to save money on disposal costs.

The Aqua WashPress^® also incorporates a wash zone that uses water to separate organics, keeping them out of the screenings and inside the plant for additional processing.