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About Us

History Milestones of the Company

Klargester is a company with an international reputation specialising in the manufacture of package pollution control products.

The company has a number of firsts to its credit and throughout its history it has developed a number of innovative products, some of which have revolutionised methods of dealing with the treatment of sewage on sites where mains drainage is not available.

1955 Company founded, originally making a unique design of concrete septic tank

1965 Launched the very first glass reinforced plastic septic tank

1970 Achieved Agrément certification for septic tank

1972 Factory moves to new HQ at Aston Clinton

1974 Introduced first version of BioDisc sewage treatment plant

1977 Initiated merchant distribution policy

1980 Supplied first major water authority sewage treatment plant project

1980 Commenced development of export distribution network

1981 Developed first Bypass separator

1983 Launched new technology for making disc packs for BioDisc sewage treatment

1986 BS5750 approval

1991 Instituted Certified Installer Network

1993 Patent for unique "BioDisc flow management" granted

1998 Revolutionary Alpha septic tank manufacturing process launched

1998 Sold 250,000th septic tank

2000 Became part of Kingspan Group

2002 ISO 9001/2000 approval

2005 BioDisc tested & certified to new European Standards

2010 High Performance Envirosafe sewage treatment plant launched