What Fluytec does

Fluytec S.A. is a Spanish industrial manufacturer specializing in water filtration and pre-treatment equipment, founded in 1979 and headquartered in Abanto-Zierbena, Biscay, Spain. The company designs and manufactures a multi-tier filtration portfolio spanning cartridge filters (FRP/GRP, stainless steel, and carbon steel housings; string wound, melt-blown, pleated, and sintered cartridges), self-cleaning filters (FCP Series), integrated and continuous ultrafiltration systems (i-UF, c-UF), and ultrapure water systems (EDI, EDR), serving desalination pre-treatment, industrial process water, and municipal drinking water applications.

Fluytec operates a vertically integrated manufacturing model with two production facilities — a new 4,000 m² state-of-the-art plant in El Abra, Spain (inaugurated July 2023) and a Portugal plant (opened 2019, doubling capacity) — and reports cumulative installed filtration capacity exceeding 35,000,000 m³/day across more than 45 years of operations. Its revenue model is direct, project-based hardware sales of custom-engineered filtration equipment to industrial and municipal buyers, with 90% of production exported to Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, the Americas, and Asia. The company sells exclusively through direct enterprise sales, with quote-based pricing tied to project specifications, and holds ASME-X, NSF, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001 certifications required for large-scale desalination and municipal contracts.

In January 2026, Talde Private Equity acquired a majority stake through its Talde Capital Crecimiento II fund, with second-generation managing partners Pedro and Marta Otegui remaining invested and continuing to lead the company. The company employs 51-100 people, has supplied equipment for reference projects including the Jubail II (1,000,000 m³/day) and other large desalination plants, and has units operating since 1992, signaling long product lifecycles. Fluytec is currently participating in publicly co-funded R&D projects including HYNNOVA (hydrogen), SOGESPRO (production management), SANDFILT, and FLUYEST, suggesting exploratory expansion into new applications and digital production management.

Name

Fluytec

Legal name

FLUYTEC S.A.

Website

https://fluytec.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Fluytec is a Spanish industrial water filtration equipment manufacturer founded in 1979, designing and producing cartridge filters, ultrafiltration systems, and self-cleaning filters for desalination, power, oil & gas, mining, and municipal water customers globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Water Filtration Equipment

akta.pro primary industry

Separation & Filtration Equipment (Filters, Centrifuges, Membranes) (IMAHAEAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Membranes, Consumables & Chemicals (Elements, Antiscalants, Cleaning) (EUANAFAJ), Water & Wastewater Treatment Plant Equipment (Clarifiers, Aeration, Membrane Systems) (IMAHAEAJ)

Keywords

• Industrial water filtration
• Desalination pre-treatment
• Cartridge filter housings
• Ultrafiltration systems
• Self-cleaning filters

Headquarters

HQ city

Abanto

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Water Filtration Equipment Manufacturing and Sales: Fluytec designs, engineers, and manufactures water treatment equipment including cartridge filters, ultrafiltration systems, and self-cleaning filters. The company sells directly to industrial and municipal customers globally, with 90% of production exported. Revenue is generated through equipment sales with custom engineering specifications.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fluytec designs, engineers, and manufactures industrial water filtration equipment including FRP/GRP, stainless steel, and carbon steel cartridge filter housings (FTP and HF series), boltless quick-opening filter systems (FTP BL series), self-cleaning filters (FCP), integrated and continuous ultrafiltration systems (i-UF, c-UF), ultrapure water systems (EDI/EDR), and replacement filter cartridges (melt-blown, pleated, string-wound, sintered). The company produces these systems at facilities in Spain and Portugal and exports them to desalination, industrial water treatment, municipal water, food, energy, and laboratory customers worldwide.

Product overview

Fluytec is a manufacturer of water treatment equipment offering filtration solutions across multiple technology tiers: macrofiltration (FTP series filters, FCP self-cleaning filters), microfiltration (cartridge filters including melt-blown and string wound), ultrafiltration (i-UF integrated and c-UF continuous systems), and ultrapure water systems (EDI and EDR). The product portfolio includes FRP/GRP, stainless steel, and carbon steel filter housings, along with complementary components (nozzles, couplings, mixers). Products serve desalination, industrial water treatment, municipal water, food industry, energy, laboratories, and agricultural applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• i-UF (Integrated Ultrafiltration) Integrated ultrafiltration system that combines pre-treatment and membrane filtration stages in a single compact solution for industrial and municipal water treatment applications.
• c-UF (Continuous Ultrafiltration) Continuous ultrafiltration system designed for continuous water treatment operations with high filtration efficiency.
• FCP Series (Self-Cleaning Filters) Self-cleaning filters that automatically remove debris without interrupting flow, suitable for continuous industrial water treatment applications.
• FTP BL Series (Boltless Quick-Opening FRP Cartridge Filter Housings) Boltless quick-opening FRP/GRP cartridge filter housings with proprietary corrosion-resistant construction and UV protection for rapid cartridge replacement and reduced maintenance downtime.
• FTP BL XL Series (Large-Diameter Boltless Filter Housings) Large-diameter boltless quick-opening FRP filter housings designed under ASME-X Class 2 standard with up to 10 bar pressure rating for high-capacity desalination and industrial applications.
• FTP Series (FRP Cartridge Filter Housings) Traditional FRP cartridge filter housings for medium to large flow applications in industrial and municipal water treatment.
• HF FTP Series (High-Flow Cartridge Filter Housings) High-flow cartridge filter housings designed for high-capacity water treatment installations.
• PPHF Series (Pleated High-Flow Polypropylene Cartridges) High-flow pleated polypropylene cartridge filters with 1–50 μm filtration grades, inside-to-outside flow design, and extended service life, manufactured in Class 10,000 clean rooms.
• Melt Blown Cartridges Melt-blown polypropylene filter cartridges providing depth filtration with high dirt-holding capacity for industrial and municipal applications.
• String Wound Polypropylene Cartridges 100% polypropylene wound filter cartridges providing large contact surface, minimum pressure drop, high retention capacity, and high filtration efficiency for industrial water treatment.
• EDI (Electrodeionization) Systems Electrodeionization systems that produce ultrapure water by removing ionized species through electrical potential, for laboratory and industrial ultrapure water applications.
• EDR (Electrodialysis Reversal) Systems Electrodialysis reversal systems for desalination and industrial water treatment applications.
• FTAUR Series Advanced filtration system series designed for industrial water treatment applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• Installed filtration capacity of 35,000,000 m³/day
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Amiad Water Systems: Israel-headquartered manufacturer of self-cleaning filters, screen filters and microfiber filtration for industrial, irrigation and desalination pre-treatment — directly comparable in product (self-cleaning FCP-Series analogs) and target customers (municipal and industrial water plants).
• Diemme Filtration: Italian manufacturer of industrial filtration equipment (filters, presses, screens) for water treatment, mining, food and process industries, with similar mid-market size and European manufacturing footprint to Fluytec.

Regional players

• Hyflux: Singapore-listed membrane and desalination EPC group active across Asia and the Middle East — comparable as a regional desalination specialist that bundles filtration/membrane systems for SWRO projects in geographies Fluytec also serves.

Broad incumbents

• Donaldson Company: US-listed industrial filtration manufacturer with cartridge and housing product lines serving water, food and process industries — comparable diversified incumbent competing on similar product categories.
• MANN+HUMMEL: German filtration manufacturer with industrial water and process filtration product lines, comparable as a wider-portfolio incumbent supplying cartridge and housing solutions into water treatment.
• Pentair: Large diversified water-treatment company offering commercial/industrial filtration and pre-treatment for desalination and process water — overlapping with Fluytec on cartridge and cartridge-housing product lines.
• Pall Corporation (Danaher): Global industrial filtration and separation specialist (Pall Water) supplying cartridge and membrane systems for desalination pre-treatment, serving the same industrial and municipal customers as Fluytec at much larger scale.
• SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions: Now operating within Veolia, offers filtration and membrane pre-treatment systems to desalination and industrial customers worldwide — overlaps directly with Fluytec's downstream filtration scope at much higher scale.
• Veolia Water Technologies: Global EPC and equipment major for desalination and industrial water plants, including pre-treatment filtration and RO systems — competes for the same mega-project tenders (e.g. Jubail-class SWROs).

Emerging players

• Toray Membrane (Toray Industries): Japanese membrane and UF/RO specialist supplying pre-treatment and membrane systems for desalination — adjacent competitor on integrated UF offerings (i-UF / c-UF analogues) and a natural integrator or competitor on desalination bids.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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