Attention Growing to Recycled Stormwater Management Solutions in Poland

Pipelife Poland recently launched a new stormwater retention crate generation named Stormbox E. Made fully from recycled material, this solution is designed to promote circularity and minimize waste without compromising the high reliability that Pipelife’s Stormbox systems are known for. Among the first clients who chose Stormbox E, is the Persán group — one of Central Europe’s leading producers of household chemicals and cosmetics. Stormbox E will be used to keep Persán’s future production facility in western Poland protected from water damage.

_{Green Stormwater Solution for a Green-Thinking Company}

Stormbox E is one of the first fully recycled retention crate systems available in Poland. Although only recently introduced to the market, the product has been receiving growing attention from several clients.

Among them is the Persán group — one of the leading producers of household chemicals and cosmetics in Central Europe. Headquartered in Spain, the company is highly committed to promoting a circular economy. As an example, most of its packaging is made of partially recycled plastic, and by 2024, all Persán packaging will contain at least 50% of recycled materials. The company is also a member of Ecoembes, Eko-Cykl and Eko-Pak organizations dedicated to recycling and ecological packaging design.

_{Ambitious Production Facility in the Making}

In September 2021, Persán started building a production plant in the village of Wróblowice, west of Wrocław. Once finished, the new factory complex will cover an area of nearly 38,000 m2, including not only the production plant itself but also an office building, a wastewater treatment plant, a silo complex, and a fire pumping station, as well as all the necessary technical infrastructure.

A production complex of this scale and importance requires an equally robust stormwater management system. It is planned to divide the designed stormwater drainage system into two separate parts. One system will gather the potentially contaminated rainwater and snowmelt from paved surfaces, roads, docks and parking lots in water storage tanks, releasing it slowly to a specially designed soakaway ditch.

The second stormwater system will collect the rainwater directly from the roof surfaces of the production facilities and other buildings. The collected water will then be discharged from a retention crate system into an underground storage tank from which it will be consequently released into the ground. To ensure efficient stormwater retention, the client opted for Pipelife’s Stormbox E solution.