Could you briefly introduce Ecolab to our audience?

We deliver comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and personalized service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.  Many of the world’s most recognizable brands rely on Ecolab to help ensure operational efficiencies, product integrity and brand reputation and meet sustainability goals.

In the water space, we provide chemistries and digital technologies to help businesses in nearly every industry reduce water consumption throughout their operations, and our impact is significant. Each year, we help our customers conserve more than 200 billion of gallons of water, enough for the annual drinking water needs of 712 million people.

We provide products, services and expertise to help prevent foodborne illness and keep food safe from farm to table, including farms and dairies, food and beverage processing plants, restaurant and foodservice locations, and food retail businesses.  Each year, we help safely protect more than 36% of the world’s packaged food and 44% of the global milk supply, and support clean kitchens serving more than 58 billion restaurant meals around the world.

We are also a leader in solutions to help protect public health. From our cleaning and sanitizing products to help keep hospitals, hotels, restaurants and other commercial environments clean and safe to our personal hygiene and infection prevention solutions, we are helping to protect people everywhere. Each year, our solutions help clean more than 40 billion hands, 15 million patient rooms, 3.5 billion surgical instruments and more than 1 billion hotel room stays. Throughout the pandemic, we have provided our infection prevention expertise, solutions, protocols and training to help combat the spread of COVID-19. Sustainability is core to our purpose to make the world cleaner, safer and healthier.

Could you exemplify how Ecolab’s solutions are used in the petrochemical space in Singapore?

Our Nalco Water business works with many of the large petrochemical companies that operate on Jurong Island and provides solutions to help them operate more efficiently, protect assets from scale and corrosion, and reduce water and energy consumption. One of the solutions we’ve utilized in Singapore is our 3D TRASAR™ technology, which utilizes smart sensors and innovative chemistry to detect upsets in water systems that precede scaling, corrosion and biofouling, and then delivers the appropriate chemical response to correct the situation.

Could you share one of Ecolab’s social initiatives?

Throughout the pandemic, we have donated more than US$11.3 million in cleaning and sanitizing solutions to help those in need. Another initiative is our work to provide drinking water to a boarding school in a remote part of Indonesia. The nearby water source was unfit for drinking, and students depended on a water source many miles away. We installed water filtration technology and a water facility to provide drinkable water from taps at the school of more than 10,000 students.

How is digitalization tied to water management solutions?

We were a pioneer in utilizing remote monitoring, diagnostics and controls to help our customers operate more efficiently, and today, we are using digital technologies to create more value for our customers through remote monitoring and support, predictive analytics and insight-driven problem-solving. Through our data capture and analysis capabilities, we can better understand how we can help improve our customers’ operations and further reduce, reuse, and recycle water.

What are Ecolab’s key objectives moving forward?

In the short-term, we will continue to provide our infection prevention expertise, solutions, protocols and training to help combat the spread of COVID-19. As the global economy begins to reopen, maintaining safe, clean and healthy operations must be a priority to help ensure consumer confidence, and we are helping customers ensure they have the right processes in place.

We are also focused on expanding our ability to drive better operational, product quality and sustainability results and value for our customers. The continued expansion of our innovation portfolio and digital technologies will help us achieve these goals. We will continue to expand our footprint and impact in Southeast Asia and are excited about the growth opportunities we see in the region. In Singapore, we will continue our investments in innovation to help solve our customers’ most pressing operational and sustainability challenges.