With rapidly growing clientele, investment was made in new filtration and UV disinfection and our founders’ interest in water treatment technologies was born.

From this point, investment was made in water analytical technologies, a steam distillation plant and a de-ionisation plant for supplying pure water to pharmaceutical clients including Swisse Pharmaceuticals. Due to growing demand for Waterform services, the decision was made to offer advanced water treatment plants to the food processing market.

The company directors travelled globally to establish an invaluable network of strategic partners and suppliers. This journey ranged from a parts distribution warehouse in NZ, to a lecture by a Microwave UV expert, to the depths of Microdyn Nadirs’ membrane R&D facility in Weisbaden, Germany.

Waterform moved into a new warehouse to facilitate rapid company growth.

Pictured: Waterform’s first packaged wastewater treatment plant, for a regional Australian meat processor.

During the decade, Waterform doubled down on our core market strategy of designing, fabricating and constructing water and wastewater treatment plants for the food production and processing industry.

As the company grew organically, the size and range of our projects gradually from correction and disinfection to full-scale advanced biological water treatment and large-scale membrane filtration applications.

The impact of an El Nino drought in 2019-20 led many food producers to search for alternative sources of water, through treating untapped water sources or recycling wastewater.

Pictured: In 2019, Waterform designed and constructed Australia’s largest inland groundwater security plant in the food production industry, treating over 16 million litres per day.