Manufacturing is a ‘national security issue,’ says the CEO of the Boston-based company, whose revenue is expected to double this year to nearly $200 million.
“It’s become more of a national security issue, or an existential issue, to have these manufacturing capabilities and each of them needs water,” Anurag Bajpayee, Gradiant’s cofounder and CEO, tells. “We not only minimize, or in some cases eliminate, the contaminated water, we recycle it to reduce the impact on society.”
Because Gradiant’s early costs were so low — half the cost of existing technologies, Bajpayee says — customers were willing to give the startup a try. Soon, it gained bigger customers and launched additional water-treatment technologies. Today, Gradiant has approximately 600 water-treatment facilities and offers half a dozen different water-purification technologies for complex industrial operations. It holds hundreds of patents on those technologies.
For GSK, Gradiant worked up a wastewater treatment program for its large amoxicillin plant in Singapore beginning in January 2020. Wastewater from the penicillin antibiotic — a key ingredient in GSK’s drug Augmentin — is. Gradiant extracts some five tons of waste per day from the plant’s wastewater. “To treat the sludge we were getting was extremely difficult,” says Colin McKee, GSK’s head of capital strategy and management.
Gradiant’s processing, he says, will allow the lithium to be extracted from the brine in a cost-effective and ecologically feasible way. SLB president of new energy Gavin Rennickthat the Gradiant technology was “key” to its goal of improving sustainability of lithium production at a time of unprecedented growth in demand for the mineral.
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