ABOUT · TEAM

The team behind the technology.

Deep technical bench grounded in commercial water treatment. Most of the team has shipped industrial plant before. The IP, the engineering and the field experience all live in the same Brisbane building.

CM

Craig Mair

Managing Director

Commercial leadership; customer relationships; P&L. Owns the deal pipeline from sample to install.

IM

Dr Ian Maxwell

Executive Chair

Strategy, deep-tech commercialisation and governance. Decades of experience scaling Australian science to commercial outcomes.

PF

Pieter Ferreira

Chief Engineer · Director

Architect of the modular pre-coat system. Multi-decade water-treatment veteran; owns system architecture and integration.

MB

Dr Maxwell Briggs

Commercial Manager

Sales, customer success, Water Challenge assessments. Owns the journey from first conversation to deployed and operating site.

WB

Wayne Burrows

Technical Director

Field engineering and operations. Translates lab chemistry into deployable plant; commissioning and on-site service.

SL

Shane Law

Lead Engineer · Process

Process design, flux and recovery optimisation, performance instrumentation. Owns trial design and plant tuning.

JO

Janina Ortelt

Quality Control Chemist

Gel chemistry QC, laboratory validation, regulatory compliance. The chemistry never leaves Brisbane on her watch.

How we work

Engineers talking to engineers.

Every customer conversation starts with a named senior engineer. We don't gate technical depth behind sales calls — if you have a tough question about flux, fouling, gel renewal, or how a Purus skid integrates with your existing plant, you can ask the people who built it. Send us a water sample and we'll come back with sized hardware, indicative outcomes, and a Water Challenge proposal — usually within five business days.

Talk to the team.

Technical questions, partnership conversations, Water Challenge assessments, careers — pick a channel that fits.

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