Kent Stainless Ltd

Solids Technology International was established in 1979 in Dublin, Ireland to develop high-performance belt filter dewatering equipment and innovative solutions for the water and wastewater industry. In 2002 the company was taken over by Kent Stainless.

The manufacturing facility includes 3D laser cutting, CNC sheet, electro-polishing and bead blasting finishing plants. Employing over 100 people and resources including over 50 people with mechanical or electrical trades and over 20 design engineers working utilising 3D design packages gives Solids Technology the capability to supply turnkey thickening, dewatering and poly preparation solutions.

Today there are over 800 Solids Technology belt filter systems worldwide and are one of the leaders within the marketplace for Stainless steel, fully enclosed, automated high-performance dewatering and thickening system.

Our product range includes: Filter Belt Presses, Gravity Belt Thickeners, Poly Preparation Systems.

Melton Mowbray STW (2024)

Construction of a new EBPR process stream operating in a UCT configuration and updating existing assets to improve the quality of the effluent

Guildford STW (2023)

Guildford Borough Council (GBC) are progressing with the development of approximately 41 hectares of brownfield land located along the west bank of the River Wey as it runs through central Guildford and north through Slyfield Industrial Estate. Guildford Sewage Treatment Works (STW) lies within this land and requires relocation in order to enable the development […]

Beckton STW (2023)

Beckton Sewage Treatment Works (STW) is the United Kingdom’s largest STW serving a population equivalent of over four million. The AMP7 project is a major £185m investment to increase the site’s treatment capacity for growth, by a population equivalent of 200,000, by extending the existing activated sludge plant (ASP). Beckton STW will receive stormwater from […]

Basingstoke Sludge Treatment Centre (2017)

The Basingstoke Sludge Treatment Centre (STC) incorporates liquid and caked, raw sludge import facilities together with thermal hydrolysis and anaerobic digestion plant which will process 53tDS/day of sludge from Basingstoke, Farnham, Fleet, Guilford and Newbury. This will fulfil Thames Water’s strategy to cease unsustainable liming activities at the four satellite sites up to the 2036 […]