Wetlands Construídos is a Brazilian startup company that specializes in the area of constructed wetland. Its business includes the consulting and implementation of natural systems for water treatment and wastewater - specifically constructed wetland systems. The company was officially founded in 2011 in

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by CEO André Baxter Barreto and was incubated in a

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known as INOVA UFMG - Incubadora de Empresas at the

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in 2015.

History

The company begin to shape in 2011 with a group of co-founders consisting of a Sanitary Biologist,

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and

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, most of them holding a

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in the fields of Science and Business. CEO André Baxter Barreto, a Master of Science (MSc), works closely with renowned

Wastewater Treatment Wastewater treatment is a process used to remove contaminants from wastewater and convert it into an effluent that can be returned to the water cycle. Once returned to the water cycle, the effluent creates an acceptable impact on the environme ...

academia, and is expected to receive a doctorate degree in the area of

wastewater treatment Wastewater treatment is a process used to remove contaminants from wastewater and convert it into an effluent that can be returned to the water cycle. Once returned to the water cycle, the effluent creates an acceptable impact on the environme ...

from the

in 2016. In May 2013, a few of the co-founders participated in the 1st Brazilian Symposium on Wetlands Constructed of Application in Wastewater Treatment at

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, Santa Catarina. In early 2015, the company was officially incubated in an

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, INOVA, at the

. During the second Brazilian Symposium on Constructed Wetland that was held in Paraná in June 2015, CEO André Baxter Barreto was a speaker and presented on the topic "Innovative Method for Pamaters Kinetic Research Beds of Wetlands Horizontal Subsurface Built in Real Scale". The company Wetlands Construídos is scheduled to hold a conference at the

on 26 August 2015.

Affiliations

* Inova UFMG:

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* DESA UFMG: Sanitary and Environmental engineering department at the

* ITUBANAIA: Landscape design company * Clean Environment Brasil: Corporate group that manufactures and sells a line of environmental products, equipment and technologies in Brazil.

References

External links

Wetlands Construídos

2nd Brazilian Symposium on Constructed Wetland
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wetlands Construidos Companies based in Minas Gerais Water supply and sanitation in Brazil