Locally owned and operated
Pan America Environmental, Inc. creates new industrial wastewater treatment systems. We design, develop, and manufacture a wide variety of these systems. They are used in many industries and markets. Our designs are continuously reviewed and upgraded to implement new ideas.
Pan America Environmental offers a variety of services. These include simple, one-step applications and complex, multi-stage, multi-chemical reaction process installations. The installations have PLC-driven control, fluid/solids handling sub-systems, sludge dewatering processes, chemical makeup, and precision metering systems.
We offer a variety of systems for chemical reactions, including continuous flow and batch systems, multi-stage processes, pH adjustment, pH neutralization, dissolved air flotation, induced air flotation, slant plate and inclined plate clarifiers, organoclay filtration, carbon filters, oil water separators, and API separators. We also offer a variety of other products and systems.
Our Slant Plate Clarifier plate packs, Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) and Recycle Saturation Systems are offered for drinking water and municipal installations with pre-existing or new facilities requiring the latest in settling and flotation design to increase throughput and performance.
Custom, specialized systems are designed for any particular facility, application and customer need. Customization and specialized system packages are 80% of our daily business and we can find many ways to incorporate inventive solutions to current needs.
We provide equipment based on the specific needs of your project. This allows us to size and configure the system to fit your facility and site.
Pan America Environmental designs top-notch systems and provides high-quality industrial components from supportive manufacturers and suppliers. This allows us to offer you the best performance, lowest maintenance and downtime requirements, fast replacement of parts, and problem-solving with excellent equipment life span and return on investment (ROI).
Product improvement and development
To continuously improve your ownership, operating experience of our treatment systems and system performance/effectiveness, Pan America has implemented a long-term, continuous product review program to improve existing products and develop new and better products.
Through ongoing product review using state-of-the-art 3D CAD design software, Computational Fluid Dynamics motion simulation software and structural mechanical simulation software, we are able to research and develop existing and new designs in house with higher design confidence, process physics comprehension and cost savings while enriching company capabilities and elevating our treatment designs.
Our history
In the beginning
Pan America Environmental, Inc. is a Wisconsin corporation established in the state of Illinois in 1991 for the design and manufacturing of industrial wastewater treatment systems. By marshaling technology and experience we strive to provide proven, reliable products the world needs and can use for decades to come through our use of quality practices, high performance designs and application assistance to tailor a system to the customer and project requirements.
We started in business by designing and providing oil water separators. Our designs were readily accepted in many markets such as groundwater remediation, machine shops, wash racks, fueling depots, fuel/oil tank farms and storm water treatment. Over the years we've applied our technologies in many other industries around the world as our national and international clientele grew.
How the product line grew
Since the introduction of our early oil/water separator systems we have added 7 different types of oil water separators, Dissolved Air Flotation, Inclined Plate Clarifiers, Slant Plate Clarifiers, TPI oil water separators, CPI oil water separators, chemical pretreatment systems, emulsion breaking systems, filtration systems, batch treatment systems, groundwater remediation systems, vehicle wash treatment, pH neutralization systems and API separators.
Who uses our industrial wastewater treatment products?
A partial list:
- 3M
- Alcoa
- Alcon
- American Tank Cleaning
- Arco Permian
- Army
- Air Force
- Marines
- US Navy (even Area 51)
- Atofina
- Ball Beverage
- Boeing
- Boise Cascade
- Borden Foods
- Calgon
- Citgo
- Coca-Cola
- Contech
- Daimler-Chrysler
- Delphi Energy & Engine
- Domino's Pizza
- Dow Chemical
- Esso
- Exxon Mobil
- Explore Pipeline
- FMC Energy Systems
- Firestone
- Florida Power
- GAF Building Materials
- Garrett Aviation
- GE
- General Motors
- Hertz
- Honeywell
- Hostess/Frito-Lay
- Howmet
- Idaho Power
- JLM Chemicals
- Kawasaki Motors
- Kentucky Utilities
- LTV Steel
- Louisiana Pacific Corp.
- Lunday Thagard
- Martin Marietta
- MI-Swaco
- Michelin Tire
- Olin
- Pearl Harbor Shipyard
- Petroperu
- Phelps Dodge
- Pratt & Whitney
- Praxair
- Santa Fe Railroad
- Schlumberger
- Shell Oil
- Six Flags Magic Mountain
- South Texas Electric
- State Farm Insurance
- Tecumseh
- Tenneco Automotive
- Texaco
- Trane
- Union Carbide
- Weber Grill
- Waste Management
- Williams Energy
Our manufacturing points are in the Milwaukee, WI and the Illinois and Indiana areas with sales being worldwide. All sales and engineering functions are performed from the Burlington, WI office.
So that's where we've been… where are we going?
Pan America Environmental, Inc. (PAE) is continually striving to improve its products and develop more products that have relevance and need in the world. As growth continues and markets flourish we will improve and build the company foundations to allow us to create new and better capabilities. Providing larger, more efficient treatment systems and newer, cutting edge oil water separator, dissolved air flotation, inclined plate clarifier, vehicle wash treatment and groundwater treatment technologies will give us more capability to serve the world's current and future water needs as the planet puts greater and greater pressures on this priceless, finite resource.
Our tag line says it all: "Treatment through Technology"