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Metroid Electrical Engineering
The Aquila Mine industrial water treatment plant
Industries›Water – industrial
Industrial & Mining Water

Control solutions for industrial water.

Over 800 water treatment projects delivered, for industrial, mining, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and desalination applications right across Australia.

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Genuine People
800+ Projects for the Water Industry

Decades of water treatment expertise.

With decades of expertise across a wide range of water treatment systems, our engineering team is equipped to keep your project running smoothly from start to finish.

Having successfully delivered over 800 water treatment projects, we specialise in design, construction, programming, commissioning and troubleshooting for projects of all sizes and complexities. And we don’t disappear at handover – with remote support, programming expertise and spare-parts backing, we help keep your plant running reliably for its whole life, not just its first day.

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Metroid water treatment plant switchboard at Aquila Mine
Water Treatment Technologies

Experienced across every common treatment technology.

Our engineers design control systems for all common water treatment technologies, including:

Ultrafiltration (UF)Reverse Osmosis (RO)Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF)Membrane Bioreactor (MBR)Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR)Sequence Batch Reactor (SBR)UV disinfectionChemical dosingMedia filtrationOil/water separationpH correctionSludge dewateringInlet screens
Compliance

Over 30 years building to standard.

Every switchboard is designed and built to comply with your specifications and all relevant Australian standards, including:

AS/NZS 3000
Wiring rules
AS/NZS 61439
Low voltage switchgear & controlgear assemblies
AS 4024
Safety of machinery
AS/NZS 5638
Electrical equipment for mines & quarries
AS/NZS 4509
Standalone power systems
AS 2081
Electrical protection devices for mines & quarries
WA WHS (Mines) Regulations 2022
Work health & safety compliance
Switchboard factory acceptance testing for compliance
Factory acceptance testing

We supply to sites nationally and internationally.

Client Specifications

Full compliance with your specs, and your client’s.

Metroid ensures full compliance with both your requirements and those of your end client.

We’ve delivered projects for hundreds of high-profile end clients across mining, municipal, food and beverage manufacturing, energy and other critical infrastructure applications.

Switchboard wire testing for compliance
Industrial & Mining End Clients

Helping OEMs and contractors deliver, Australia-wide.

Some of the leading companies we’ve helped OEMs and contractors deliver industrial and mining water projects for:

  • Adaman Resources
  • AGL Macquarie
  • Agnew Gold
  • Alcoa
  • Anglo American Coal
  • Anglo Grosvenor
  • ANSTO
  • Atlas Iron
  • Atom Minerals
  • Austral Bricks
  • Baiada
  • BCI Minerals
  • BG&E Resources
  • BHP
  • Bingo
  • BMA
  • BMA Blackwater
  • BMA Goonyella
  • BMA Saraji
  • Boggabri Coal
  • Bulla Foods
  • CFA
  • Cheetham Salt
  • Coburn Resources
  • Cockburn Cement
  • CSBP
  • CSA Mine
  • CSL
  • CUB
  • Dacian Gold
  • EMU Farmers
  • Endeavour Mining
  • Ensham Resources
  • Evolution Mining
  • Farm Frite
  • FMG
  • Fosterville Gold
  • Gladstone LNG
  • Glencore
  • Greenham Beef
  • Grassdale Fertilisers
  • Harvest Choice
  • Heathgate Resources
  • Hillgrove Mines
  • Idemitsu Australia
  • IGO Nova
  • Iluka
  • Independence Group NL
  • Inghams
  • JBS
  • Lactalis
  • Larvotto Resources
  • Lesaffre
  • Lynas
  • McCain
  • Melbourne Zoo
  • Meridian CSG
  • Mid West Ports
  • Nestle
  • Newcrest Mining
  • Oil Search
  • OSI Group
  • Oyu Tolgoi
  • Pensana
  • Pfizer
  • Port Waratah Coal Services
  • QNP
  • Rio Tinto
  • Rio Tinto Koodaideri Project
  • Rio Tinto Mesa J
  • RMS
  • Roy Hill
  • RTIO Amrun Project
  • SalTas
  • Santos
  • Saputo
  • Snowy Hydro
  • Sonac
  • South Dynon Rail
  • St Ives Gold Mine
  • Sundrop Farms
  • Sydney Trains
  • Taronga Zoo
  • Tronox
  • Western Meats
  • Westpork
  • YanCoal
  • Zoos Victoria
Case Studies

Water treatment projects we’ve delivered.

Aquila MCC on the factory floor
Aquila Mine, QLD

Aquila Mine Water & Sewage Treatment Plant

A complete, networked electrical control package for two treatment plants on a remote Queensland mine site, designed, built and programmed in-house.

Scope: Design, construction, programming
Wyangala Dam Water Treatment Plant - Switchboard
Wyangala, NSW

Wyangala Dam Water Treatment Plant

The Wyangala Dam Wall Raising Project was put in place as a requirement to increase the capacity of the dam by raising the existing wall. The project involved a replacement of the Wyangala Water Treatment Plant to accomodate the holiday park reconfiguration, and provide potable water to the Wyangala Village.

Scope: Design, Construction, Programming, Commissioning
Ranger Mine OBS Treatment Plant - Switchboard
Ranger, NT

Ranger Mine OBS Treatment Plant

This project involved the Osmoflo Brine Squeezer (OBS) as a treatment solution to concentrate brine from the existing desalination plants at the Ranger mine site as part of its mine closure and rehabilitation programme. The OBS plant at the mine was help maximise the conversion of contaminated wastewater to water suitable for environmental release.

Scope: Design, Construction
Sonac Waste Water Treatment Plant MCC - Switchboard
Maryborough, VIC

Sonac Waste Water Treatment Plant MCC

Part of a $17million expansion on production capabilities and waste management. The installation of a new wastewater treatment plant and box drying equipment is estimated to nearly double the facilities ability to turn blood waste from abattoirs to protein powders for animal consumption to 55,000 tonnes per annum.

Scope: Design, Construction, Programming, Commissioning
Bingo Recycled Water Treatment Plant - Switchboard
Orchard Hills, NSW

Bingo Recycled Water Treatment Plant

The Patons Lane Recycling Water Treatment Plant was built by Bingo to improve the quality of recovered soils, sand and aggregates through washing. The recycling water treatment plant functions as a closed-loop wet washing system, incorporating optical sorters equipped with infrared technology to separate material streams.

Scope: Design, Construction, Programming, Commissioning
Future Generation Construction WTP - Switchboard
Snowy Mountains, NSW

Future Generation Construction WTP

Motor Control Centre for a Construction Water Treatment Plant at the Snowy Hydro 2.0 project. Snowy 2.0 is a pumped hydro-electric project that will link the existing Tantangara and Talbingo reservoirs through a series of new underground tunnels and a hydro-electric power station.

Scope: Design, Construction, Programming

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