Upgrade performance – without rebuilding your plant
Municipal wastewater treatment operators across Europe and beyond are under pressure: stricter effluent targets, rising energy and maintenance costs, and aging membrane installations that weren’t designed for today’s requirements. When plate-and-frame modules reach end-of-life, the usual options are frustratingly expensive and disruptive from replacing countless individual components to purchasing entirely new filtration plants.
MYTEX Retrofit was developed for a different path: a planned, drop-in modernization that keeps your plant running, stays within budget, and delivers measurable capacity and performance gains.
When membrane modules age, operators typically face two unappealing choices:
In the Bodrum municipal wastewater treatment plant (Turkey), exactly this dilemma occurred: renewing outdated membranes.
MYTEX Retrofit is a drop-in solution for all plate-and-frame modules, designed to modernize in a step-by-step, predictable way – with minimal time and cost investment.
Importantly, it can be implemented without additional retrofitting or changes to the auxiliary equipment and further to the control system, keeping existing peripherals and control systems unchanged.
What this means for municipalities:
MYTEX LAMINAT is a textile material that impresses with its high strength, robustness and durability. It is completely pressure-resistant to high negative pressures and therefore cannot be damaged even at the maximum possible suction pressure.
The MYTEX LAMINAT has a patented design and can be manufactured with any commercially available flatsheet membranes, which supports flexibility for application-oriented membrane selection. Thanks to its hybrid properties, the laminate is flexible and backwashable, with a high degree of free volume within the drainage layer. This free volume can be used to introduce reactive substances, enabling further treatment processes and integrating downstream processes into one step.
SAFEGUARD TECHNOLOGY ensures the retention of biomass, even in the event of severe membrane damage. The multi-layer laminate prevents the penetration of biomass. The retained biomass forms a secondary filtration layer that effectively blocks any point of damage and safely retains biomass. This prevents high turbidity or suspended solids in the permeate.
Instead of getting stuck in a costly cycle of expensive component replacements, MYTEX Retrofit supports replacement equipped through blocks/modules. Replacement outfitting using blocks or modules that can be precisely tailored to match the existing footprint, a practical approach for municipal plants planning staged CAPEX and scheduled maintenance windows.
This modular thinking helps utilities:
After implementing MYTEX Retrofit at the municipal WWTP in Bodrum, the project delivered clear outcomes:
In short: Bodrum demonstrates how retrofit can be a cost-efficient alternative to replacing outdated modules, reducing investment and time while improving plant performance.
MYTEX Retrofit is positioned as an upgrade platform, not a limitation. For municipalities and international operators, that flexibility matters – especially when procurement rules, long-term framework contracts, or technology preferences differ from region to region.
In focus for MYTEX Retrofit projects:
Because it fits the real constraints of public infrastructure:
MYTEX Retrofit is built around those realities.
If your plant runs plate-and-frame membrane modules and you’re planning a modernization, MYTEX Retrofit can be assessed as a drop-in upgrade path – from a targeted replacement strategy to a staged upgrade plan.
👉 Do you operate a municipal wastewater treatment plant and want to increase capacity without changing the footprint or control system?
Talk to us about MYTEX Retrofit.
UNISOL is a leading provider of innovative membrane technologies and water treatment solutions for various industries worldwide. With a strong focus on efficiency, sustainability and technological innovation, we support our customers with our filtration products to optimize their water and wastewater treatment processes.
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