Proven active mixing solutions help improve water quality, reduce maintenance demands and strengthen system performance. 

EAST ZORRA-TAVISTOCK, ON, Sept. 23, 2026 /CNW/ -- Building a water storage tank is only part of the job. What happens to the water once it is inside matters just as much.

As Greatario marks 40 years of delivering water and wastewater storage infrastructure across Canada, the company and longtime partner IXOM Watercare are putting greater focus on a technology that remains unfamiliar to many municipalities and operators: active water mixing.

Through its longstanding relationship with IXOM Watercare, Greatario is working to increase awareness of active mixing technologies that can help municipalities, water operators and industrial customers address a wide range of challenges, from reducing thermal stratification and maintaining disinfectant residuals in drinking water storage to managing ice, odours, solids, fats, oils and grease, and other operational issues across wastewater and industrial applications.

The objective is straightforward: help communities protect water quality, improve the performance of critical infrastructure and get more from the systems they already have.
 

The tank is only part of the water-quality equation

Safe, reliable water infrastructure is fundamental to communities across Canada. It supports public health, housing, economic growth and the everyday operation of cities and towns.

Yet while considerable attention is understandably paid to treatment plants, pipes, pumps and storage capacity, Greatario says one part of the system can sometimes receive less attention: what is happening to water while it is being stored.

Temperature changes, water age and operating conditions can contribute to stratification and uneven water conditions within potable-water storage tanks. Active mixing continuously circulates the stored water, helping reduce thermal stratification, support more consistent disinfectant residuals and improve overall water quality.

For Greatario, which has spent four decades designing, building and servicing storage infrastructure, adding that capability is a natural extension of the work it already does with municipalities and water operators.

"We've spent 40 years helping communities build and maintain the infrastructure that stores their water, but the outcome our customers ultimately care about isn't the tank itself, it's safe, reliable water and a system that performs the way it should," said Jeff Rodger, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Greatario. "When we can identify a relatively straightforward solution that helps improve water quality, reduce maintenance or solve a problem an operator has been living with, that's where the real value is. It allows us to look beyond one piece of equipment and help the customer with the performance of the entire system."

Proven Technology for Better Water Quality and System Performance

Through the relationship, Greatario provides IXOM Watercare solutions including GridBee® and SolarBee® technologies for potable water, IXOM THM Removal System, wastewater and other applications.

Greatario's teams often introduce active mixing during broader conversations with customers rather than responding to a direct request for the technology.

An operator may be dealing with excessive ice formation, inconsistent water conditions, stratification, declining disinfectant residuals, grease accumulation in a wet well or repeated maintenance demands without necessarily identifying mixing as a potential solution.

That awareness gap is one reason Greatario and IXOM Watercare believe there is still significant opportunity for education across the Canadian market.

"Sometimes the most valuable question we can ask a customer is simply, 'What problem are you trying to solve?'" said Rodger. "They may not come to us asking for a mixer. They tell us what they are seeing in their tank or wet well, what it is costing them, or what their operators are continually having to manage. Because we understand both the storage infrastructure and these technologies, we can help connect the problem to a practical solution."

Different systems. Different challenges. The same need for better performance.

The applications for active mixing extend well beyond a single type of tank or water-quality issue.

In potable-water storage, active mixing can help reduce thermal stratification, maintain disinfectant residuals and improve circulation throughout the tank. In cold climates, mixing can also help municipalities manage excessive ice formation and the maintenance challenges it can create.

Across wastewater collection and treatment systems, mixing technologies can help keep solids and fats, oils and grease in suspension, reduce buildup and odours, improve pump and wet-well performance, and support more reliable treatment processes.

That breadth is important because water systems rarely face identical operating conditions.

"Water quality challenges are not one-size-fits-all, and neither are the solutions," said Bryce Hill, Regional Manager, Midwest and Canada, IXOM Watercare. "One utility may be trying to eliminate stratification and maintain disinfectant residuals in a drinking-water tank. Another may be dealing with ice, a difficult wet well, solids accumulation, odour, energy use or the performance of a wastewater treatment process. Effective mixing can play a role across all of those environments."

Getting more from Canada's water infrastructure

As communities face growing pressure to protect water quality, control operating costs and extend the life of existing infrastructure, proven technologies like active mixing can offer a practical path forward.

For Greatario and IXOM Watercare, the priority is simple: help more municipalities, operators and industrial customers understand where these solutions can improve performance, and make sure they know the option exists before a persistent problem becomes a bigger one.
 

About Greatario

Greatario has been Canada's trusted leader in liquid storage solutions for nearly 40 years. With over 800 tanks built across the country, Greatario is committed to delivering high-quality, innovative storage solutions for municipal and industrial applications. Follow Greatario on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greatario/. 

For more information, visit Greatario.com.

About IXOM Watercare

IXOM Watercare provides water-quality solutions for municipal and industrial applications, including GridBee® and SolarBee® mixing technologies for potable water, wastewater, source water, stormwater and other applications. Its technologies are designed to help operators address water-quality and operational challenges through mixing, circulation, aeration and related treatment solutions.

For more information, visit IXOMWatercare.com.

SOURCE Greatario Industrial Storage Systems Ltd