A COMPANY that provides water treatment solutions is seeking planning permission to underpin the future of the business in Monmouth with an ambitious expansion plan to develop a new 10 acre head office complex on the new Kingswood Site situated off Wonastow Road.

Siltbuster has grown from strength to strength over the last 15 years supplying temporary and permanent water treatment plants throughout the UK and increasingly worldwide.

“Our equipment is currently removing anything from baked beans through to radioactive particles at geographically diverse locations as far apart as the northern tip of Norway to the Falklands” said Managing Director Dr Richard Coulton.

“From our existing location on the Wonastow Road Industrial Estate we now employ 45 people and spend over £6M in the local economy each year.”

Currently, the biggest bottleneck to expansion for business is a lack of space, explains Dr Coulton: “We have been located on our current site since 2004, when we originally thought we would have to sublet half of it out. Now we have four sites on the Wonastow Road Industrial Estate and are still constrained by space!”

The development is part of the company’s 2020 vision for ongoing growth and expansion, both in the UK and internationally. It is aiming to sell more of innovative water treatment and materials recycling equipment worldwide and in the process create an additional 65 highly skilled technical jobs over the next five years.

The project is being phased into two sections with a temporary storage yard being currently constructed which will cater for immediate expansion and the new offices and warehousing planned to be erected over the next 12 months (subject to planning permission).

“Siltbuster looks forward to remaining in Monmouth and establishing the new development as a centre of excellence for water treatment technology throughout Europe and beyond,” added the company.

The application is available for inspection and comment via Monmouthshire Planning Portal under reference number DC/2015/01116.