Explore our solutions offered to municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants, drinking water plants and process water purification for food and beverage plants in the Pacific Northwest, California, Southwest U.S. and Western Canada and other North American locations by request.
We listen to your needs and at your request will provide technology and services that will meet your process efficiency, customer required and environmental permitting needs.
We also assist with odor and corrosion control in municipal wastewater collection and with management of process by-product liquids and solids for beneficial reuse purposes.
After reviewing our website, please contact us by e-mail or phone if we can be of service to you.
info@heimburgerandco.com or (360) 319-8234
ABOUT US
Heimburger & Company, Inc. was formed in July, 1993 and served the pulp & paper industry and its supplier companies for over twenty years. During this time, the company distinguished itself from other business and technology consultants by offering solutions tailored to meet pulping, bleaching or brightening and papermaking needs. Environmental quality (both to receiving waters and surrounding air in the communities where pulp & paper customers operated) became paramount from the mid 1990’s through the first ten years of the new millennium as government agencies such as the EPA and Environment Canada, developed legislation to safeguard the environment. It was great to be a part of this and interact with peers and clients globally to solve this important issue of the day from a technically-driven, business-focused direction.
At about the same time, the paper industry developed processes to pulp and brighten high-yield pulps (e.g. TMP, CTMP) and recycled paper pulps (made from newsprint, magazines or mixed office waste) due to market and legislation-driven forces throughout the world. Heimburger & Company, Inc., working directly for the pulp & paper industry as well as with suppliers of various pulping, bleaching and papermaking products and technologies, became deeply involved in this changing force as well. In particular, we became well-known for our published work on the use of hydrogen peroxide in both pulping and bleaching high-yield and recycled pulps and we played a direct role in helping papermakers around the globe achieve desired qualities in printing grade papers of many varieties desired at the time.
By 2010 however, it began to become clear that electronic communications (e-mail, on-line business transactions, e-magazines, etc.) and the hardware and software required to connect global sellers to buyers was going to quickly develop and displace paper-based products. At this point Heimburger & Company, Inc. began to focus its services on manufacturing industry needs for improvements in wastewater treatment processes to meet stricter guidelines from both environmental agencies and communities where operations took place. Early success in this area led company management to temporarily suspend operations of the company in 2014 and assume a full-time leadership role at a food manufacturing industry site (involving design, installation, start-up and optimization of a new two-stage aerobic biological treatment process including innovative treatment of biosolids to meet very restrictive permitting requirements). Success here led to full-time employment at a North American environmental solutions provider which has led to Heimburger & Company, Inc. being reborn again in late 2019 as a provider of solutions for treatment of wastewater to both industrial and municipal wastewater customers in the U.S. and Canada.
We invite you to join us to utilize technology and services that we will bring to wastewater, potable water and process water markets and work with us to enable industrial and municipal plan sites to operate cost-efficiently while at the same time minimizing and eventually eliminating harmful effects on the environment and life associated with it.
CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS
All Heimburger & Company solutions for municipal and industrial customers focus on either wastewater, drinking / potable water, non-potable recycled water or aqueous process streams and involve innovative process chemistry, filtration media and engineering and/or application services in Western North America. Our main goal is also to provide our customers with a desirable blend of cost-efficiency, environmental friendliness, employee hazard minimization and community acceptance. Some topics covering customer solutions that we can assist with, depending on need, are:
Wastewater (municipal and industrial)
- Supply of 25% and 40% Sodium Bisulfite, Low Iron TM Aqueous Solutions delivered to your water treatment facility by tanker truck or in 275-gallon returnable totes, subject to your volume needs in select geographic areas
- Available beginning July 1, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay Area and inclusive of regional technical service and customer service with additional sites of availability to be offered by 2028-2030
- Use of micronized calcium carbonate to replace sodium hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide when neutralizing a low-pH stream ahead of a wastewater pretreatment process
- Supply of 25% and 40% Sodium Bisulfite, Low Iron TM Aqueous Solutions delivered to your water treatment facility by tanker truck or in 275-gallon returnable totes, subject to your volume needs in select geographic areas
- Use of micronized calcium carbonate to provide buffered pH and alkalinity control to aerobic digesters in food and beverage wastewater pre-treatment and NPDES wastewater treatment plant sites
- Improved alkalinity control of activated sludge being recycled to primary and/or secondary treatment utilizing a low-cost, non-hazardous micronized calcium carbonate
- Odor and corrosion control using innovative delivery of peroxygen chemistry in a collection system and headworks
- Advanced oxidation of high-COD streams using peroxygen chemistry ahead of a treatment plant
- Increased removal of fats, oils and greases and/or volatile organic oxidation with peroxygen chemistry enhancement of a Dissolved Gas Flotation process
- On-demand supplemental dissolved oxygen utilizing addition of peroxygen chemistry ahead of an activated sludge aerobic biological reactor
- Odor control of post-anaerobic stage sludge utilizing innovative dosing of a peroxygen chemical
- Improved alkalinity control of activated sludge being recycled to primary and/or secondary treatment utilizing a low-cost, non-hazardous micronized calcium carbonate
- Oxidation of sulfide in final effluent to meet permit of discharge to a POTW, using peroxygen chemical rather than chlorine-based chemistry
- Wet-weather disinfection of final effluent utilizing peracetic acid for improved control of pathogen destruction and operating cost following primary alternative disinfection process (UV or chemical-based)
- Biogas preconditioning using innovative filtration media methodology
Drinking or Potable Water
- Lower-cost source of calcium to add hardness to incoming water ahead of initial media filtration than calcium hydroxide
- Addition of hydrogen peroxide following ozonation for destruction of residual ozone and water taste and odor control
- Pretreatment of raw or filtered water with peracetic acid prior to disinfection to minimize the generation of harmful by-products (e.g. trihalomethanes)
Process Waters, including non-potable (municipal and industrial)
- Municipal water reuse – assistance in implementing, maintaining and optimizing water being used for agricultural, commercial and/or residual irrigation
- Municipal water reuse – assistance in implementing, maintaining and optimizing water for ponds or lakes in municipal parks and municipal or private golf courses
- Beneficial reuse of petroleum refinery and petrochemical plant spent caustic in industrial applications including pulp mills, water treatment facilities and mine ore metals extraction processes
- Solvent and amine recovery and reuse at petroleum refineries and chemical plants
- Minimization of fresh alkali demand in pulp & paper and mining industries
- Food and beverage industry fresh water minimization efforts through treated recycled water techniques (inclusive of RO, ED, UF and MF membranes)
- Periodic cleaning of biofilm from industrial process cooling towers and media filters using peroxygen chemistry to recover heat transfer value and prolong media life (focusing on power generation and primary metal manufacturing sites)
Heimburger & Company also welcomes sub-contracted, consultative work with engineering & construction companies and water treatment chemical & service providers who manage projects or continuing business with clients who operate potable water, wastewater and reuse water facilities, whether a municipal, government or industrial entity.
Please reach out to us through our Contact Form or by phone call to 360-319-8234.
HEIMBURGER & COMPANY
TRADE-MARKED PRODUCTS
40% SODIUM BISULFITE, LOW IRON TM
25% SODIUM BISULFITE, LOW IRON TM
- Heimburger & Company also supplies and will be expanding, its offerings of trademarked products for application in the water applications (including municipal wastewater, stormwater and irrigation water control facilities) as well as industrial site wastewater pretreatment facilities that discharge upstream from municipal wastewater treatment facilities that complete the wastewater treatment process prior to permitted discharge
- These products have or will have (when offered to customers) NSF.org certification that is required in most municipal and government entity bids throughout the United States including all located in Pacific Northwest, Southwest and Mountain regions served by Heimburger & Company
- The initial trade-marked product offered by Heimburger & Company is Sodium Bisulfite (NaHSO3) aqueous solutions available in tanker truck quantities or returnable totes and available as 25% or 40% NaHSO3 and contain 5 mg/L or less of Iron (Fe) that is required by many municipalities
- Since NSF.org certification for products used for wastewater, stormwater, irrigation water and potable / drinking water treatment usually are located near to where the product(s) are used, NSF.org certification is attained and maintained by a supplier (e.g. Heimburger & Company) that partners with a distribution company providing delivery equipment and manpower to supply customer needs encompassing a complement of customer services that may include sales, technical service, order dispatch and billing services for the products provided to the water treatment entity
- Please review below Technical Data Sheets and a Safety Data Sheet for Heimburger & Company trade-marked products that are utilized to control residual chlorine discharged from municipal and other NPDES permitted water treatment facilities throughout the United States when using a chlorine-based disinfection chemical to destroy pathogens, viruses and other contagions as required by the EPA Clean Water Act and meet stringent residual chlorine levels that must also be met by “point source” discharge into U.S. waters
- 27% HYDROGEN PEROXIDE (available in 2026)
SUPPLIER PARTNERS
Heimburger & Company, Inc. works very closely with select supplier partners to bring innovative products and services to our municipal wastewater, recycled and drinking water customers and as well utilize their products and expertise when serving our industrial wastewater and process water customers.
We have identified three (3) supplier partners and look forward to working with your company to introduce and optimize solutions to your address your needs that are cost-efficient, environmentally sound, employee-friendly and community-acceptable at your facility.
For further details of the product and services available through our Supplier Partners please click on a supplier partner logo below.
USEFUL INFORMATION
Useful Process and Technology Documents
Please download the below process documents to review the process, products and technology that they addressed which could provide your community, employer, employees and management with improved operational efficiency, reduced maintenance costs, fewer by products and better reliability.
Please also check back periodically to this part of our website as more documents are added and further topics are addressed. Also note that future updates will feature product technical and safety data and further case studies (by subject) to enhance your understanding of technology that is available to assist your facility.