Water and infrastructure management firm Seinco is looking to expand its operations to every country in Latin America, the president of the firm’s Mexican office, Daniel Kicildor, told BNamericas.

“We’re beginning operations in Peru, and we have also been invited to meet with the government of Ecuador, so that will likely be a new destination before the end of the year. The idea is for us to have an official presence in all of Latin America by 2014,” Kicildor said.

Established in Uruguay in 1979, Seinco now has offices in Brazil, as well as Mexico. The Mexican branch is currently exporting wastewater treatment and potable water plants to several countries including Honduras, Paraguay and Costa Rica.

In Venezuela, Seinco has a contract with national water company Hidroven to provide 60 potable water plants to the Mrida area. The modular plants have a capacity to treat between 25 and 200 m3/h, and are built with fiberglass reinforced plastic, which greatly reduces their weight, according to Kicildor.

“Each plant is about the size of a shipping container, and weighs no more than 2,000kg. Before, a plant with a similar capacity would have weighed around 15t,” Kicildor said.

The project will be completed later this year.

The full interview with Daniel Kicildor will be published in this week’s Water & Waste Perspectives, for subscribers only.

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