Global wastewater firm moves HQ to Bromsgrove
A leading international wastewater company has relocated its UK headquarters to Bromsgrove in a deal brokered by agents John Truslove.
Amrit Barmi, UK operations director of WEHRLE (WEHRLE’s UK subsidiary), said he chose Bromsgrove because of the town’s transport links and the quality of the offices at the Buntsford Gate Business Park.
He added: “Most of the sites we deal with are along the M5/M6 corridor, while Birmingham Airport gives us easy access to our head office in Germany and Birmingham New Street Station gives us rail links nationwide.
“The offices are also on the edge of the countryside and easy to get to for our employees.”
WEHRLE has its roots in a 160-year-old German engineering firm that started out making steam boilers.
While adding thermal waste incineration and energy generation from biomass to its product focus, it expanded into the industrial wastewater treatment industry in the 1980s and now has more than 400 sites operating worldwide. With its technologies and services, WEHRLE contributes a major part to the green transformation.
In the UK it has developed wastewater treatment plants for customers ranging from dairies and cheesemaking factories in the South West to whisky distilleries in the Highlands. It also works with waste disposal companies such as Biffa, Veolia and Viridor.
One of its most recent projects has been for biodiesel manufacturer Argent Energy at Ellesmere Port.
Barmi said: “Our chemists and bio-chemical engineers specialise in dealing with heavily polluted wastewater produced by industrial processes. Our processing plant at Ellesmere Port will also save our customer substantial costs in waste water every year.”
The company’s UK arm had been based in Bloxham, near Banbury in Oxfordshire, for the past five years before Mr Barmi, who has run the operation for more than a decade, decided on a move.
Ben Truslove, joint managing director at John Truslove, secured a three year lease for WEHRLE on 1,099 sq ft of office space at Unit 11, The Croft, at Buntsford Gate.
Barmi said: “We worked with Ben Truslove and the team at John Truslove. They came up with possible sites for us until we saw these offices at The Croft.
“They were perfect. Ben understood what we were looking for and didn’t stop until he found the right place for us.
Truslove said: “We are delighted to have been able to help one of the world’s leading wastewater treatment companies bring its UK headquarters to Bromsgrove.
“It highlights the benefits that offices in this area can offer a business, in terms of national and international transport links, as well as high quality offices in attractive surroundings.”
