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Effluent Management Support Services Purchase
• One-off cost or staged payment by finance

John F Hunt Water Technologies can provide a range of Effluent Management and Support arrangements
Services from initial scheme assessment through to plant commissioning and optimisation. Where • Own equipment
required, John F Hunt Water Technologies can provide both manpower to operate a company’s • Scope of plant fixed, additional purchases
water treatment plant and manage the procurement of consumables and disposal and needed to accommodate changes
treatment of waste arisings. • For long duration projects can be cheaper than
hire
• Need to have direct access to spare parts
1. Scheme Appraisal
2. Compliance Monitoring
3. Plant Design Need to understand at what point in time
4. Delivery, Installation and Commissioning relative to the duration of the project
5. Plant Optimisation, including jar tests does the hire costs exceed the purchase
6. Development of Capex and Opex Budgets costs……………..

Spreading the Cost

A company’s financial constraints may make it difficult to instantaneously raise the finances to Project Support
implement capital works.
John F Hunt recognises this and has the ability to provide treatment systems via a variety of routes John F Hunt Water Tech has many years’
such as: experience of running our clients water
treatment systems; we know first-hand the
Hire On-going hire of equipment, with the ability to off-hire the equipment at an agreed notice complexities that are involved and how poor
period and with the flexibility to upgrade and/or down size the system to reflect the current nature design and delivery can affect operations
of the site operations. back upstream.

Hire to Buy At the end of an agree hire period, the Client may exercise an option to purchase the Our team will assist you in making the correct
system. The combination of hire and purchase allows the client to effectively trial the equipment decision in designing, financing
prior to committing to the outlay of capital. and operating (by providing experienced

operators) the type of water treatment work
Lease The treatment system is leased by the Client, a range of additional services eg to suit the specifics of your project and the
Maintenance, provision of manpower to operate can be easily incorporated into the lease financial constraints involved.
arrangements. Lease durations typically may be of long duration, providing a company with
future certainty over wastewater treatment costs.

Hire, Hire to Buy and Lease Options provide companies with alternative routes which enable a
company to procure treatment systems in a flexible way, minimising the risk associated with a
large capital outlay and uncertain economic conditions.

To Hire or Purchase

Hire
• On-going cost
• Never own equipment
• Flexibility to react to changing circumstances
• For short term can be cheaper than purchase option
• No need to have direct access to spare parts
• Treatment capacity can be easily scaled up or down in response to changes

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