Energy Recovery Inc

SWB:5E2

Energy Recovery makes equipment that captures and reuses pressure energy in industrial systems. Its best-known products are pressure exchangers used in seawater desalination plants, where they help lower the energy needed to turn seawater into freshwater. The company also sells energy recovery devices for other high-pressure fluid processes, including industrial wastewater treatment and oil and gas applications. Its main customers are desalination plant builders and operators, industrial processors, and engineering firms that design large fluid-handling systems. Energy Recovery earns money by selling its hardware, replacement parts, and related service support. In this business, the value is in reducing power use and operating cost for customers that run energy-intensive processes. What makes the company different is that it sits at a narrow but important point in the infrastructure chain: it is not a full plant builder, but a specialist supplier of efficiency-critical components. That means its products are often chosen early in a project design because they can materially affect a plant’s long-term energy bill and operating economics.