Fehr Solutions

What Fehr Solutions does

Fehr Solutions, LLC is an independent water treatment consulting firm founded in 2003 by Dr. Michael Fehr and Lynn Fehr, headquartered at 1770A S. Randall Rd, Suite 193, Geneva, Illinois (a western suburb of Chicago). The firm explicitly does not sell chemicals or equipment, positioning itself as a vendor-neutral advisor that helps commercial and industrial clients reduce water treatment costs, optimize chemical management, and address Legionella risk. Service delivery is sales-led, executed through direct professional engagements with enterprise customers, on-site service, and oversight of customer personnel across multiple locations.

The company's service portfolio has three pillars: (1) Consulting Services for in-house chemical management, including on-site service, vendor oversight, and quarterly and annual program assessments; (2) Analytical Chemistry Capabilities using ICP-OES instrumentation capable of parts-per-billion precision across more than 27 metals, supporting performance modeling and early detection of system irregularities; and (3) Enhanced Services including root-cause failure analyses, commodity chemical strategies, ASHRAE-188 compliant Legionella management programs, comparative bid analysis, supplier management, and operator training. A client-facing Digital Daily Testing Forms product extends the offering into recurring daily monitoring of potable and non-potable systems.

The firm operates with a headcount of 11-50 employees across geographies that include Illinois, the Chicago metro, Arizona (with documented work at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and the NRG Phoenix Chilled Water Plant), and Texas. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Notable enterprise clients include Hormel Foods (recipient of the Spirit of Excellence Award in 2009-2015 and 2018-2023 and the Hormel No. 1 Award in 2015), Northwestern, Cordia Energy, CenTrio (Chicago), and AFG Gibbon. The company holds five patents in water treatment chemicals and monitoring equipment, attributed to the founders' prior industry work since 1988.

Name

Fehr Solutions

Legal name

Fehr Solutions, LLC

Website

https://fehrsolutions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fehr Solutions is an independent water treatment consulting firm founded in 2003 that helps commercial and industrial facilities reduce chemical usage, achieve ASHRAE-188 compliance, and optimize water treatment programs through vendor-neutral advisory services and ICP-OES analytical testing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Water Treatment Consulting

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162), Environmental Consulting Services (541620)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Water Sampling, Testing & Laboratory Analysis (Legionella/Microbiology) (BPABAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Laboratory Testing & Analytical Services (in-house/contract labs; microbiology, metals, organics) (EUANAJAB), Treatment Process Performance Monitoring & Optimization (process control, jar testing, QA/QC) (EUANAJAJ), Regulatory Compliance Monitoring & Reporting (SDWA/CWA/NPDES, permits, audits) (EUANAJAA)

Keywords

• Water treatment consulting
• Legionella risk management
• ASHRAE-188 compliance
• Cooling tower management
• Analytical chemistry services

Headquarters

HQ city

Geneva

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Water Treatment Consulting Services: Professional consulting services including on-site service, oversight of customer personnel, regular quarterly and annual program assessments, and management of water treatment processes across multiple locations. Revenue is generated through professional service engagements with clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Fehr Solutions provides independent water treatment consulting services that help commercial and industrial clients bring chemical management in-house, including on-site service, vendor oversight, quarterly and annual program assessments, and multi-location program management. The firm supports ASHRAE-188 compliant programs to minimize Legionella risk and conducts off-site analytical chemistry testing using ICP-OES instrumentation to model and validate water treatment program performance. Because it does not sell chemicals or equipment, its recommendations are vendor-neutral and grounded in quantitative analytical evidence.

Product overview

Fehr Solutions is an independent water treatment consulting firm that does not sell chemicals or equipment. The company offers a unified service portfolio comprising three core offerings: Consulting Services for in-house chemical management, Analytical Chemistry Capabilities utilizing ICP-OES instrumentation for metals testing, and Enhanced Services including ASHRAE-188 compliance and operator training. The Daily Testing Forms product provides client-specific digital monitoring tools. All services emphasize data-driven decision making, chemical reduction (often exceeding 70%), and Legionella risk management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Chemical usage reduction exceeding 70%
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Biwater: Biwater provides water and wastewater treatment solutions, including consulting, chemicals, and packaged plant systems, with a stronger municipal and international footprint than Fehr Solutions. It overlaps on industrial water treatment consulting but with a different geographic and customer mix.

Broad incumbents

• Kurita Water Industries: Kurita Water Industries is a Japanese-headquartered global provider of water treatment chemicals, equipment, and ultra-pure water services to industrial clients. It is comparable to Fehr Solutions in delivering cooling-tower and boiler-water treatment programs, with a much broader chemical and equipment portfolio.
• Nalco Water (Ecolab): Nalco Water, an Ecolab division, is one of the largest global providers of water treatment chemicals and on-site service programs. It competes with Fehr Solutions across the same commercial/industrial facilities segment but operates a vertically integrated chemicals-plus-service model rather than an independent consulting model.
• Solenis: Solenis is a global specialty chemicals producer that supplies water treatment and process chemistries along with on-site application expertise to industrial customers. It overlaps with Fehr Solutions in commercial/industrial water treatment programs but bundles chemical sales with service delivery.
• SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions: SUEZ (now part of Veolia) provides industrial water treatment chemicals, equipment, and digital service programs. It competes with Fehr Solutions in cooling-tower and boiler-water management but with a globally integrated chemicals-plus-service delivery model.
• Veolia Water Technologies: Veolia Water Technologies (now part of Veolia Environnement) provides water treatment chemicals, equipment, and service programs to industrial and municipal customers worldwide. It serves the same cooling-tower/closed-loop water treatment use cases as Fehr Solutions at much larger scale.

Emerging players

• HOH Water Technology: HOH Water Technology is an independent water treatment services and consulting firm serving commercial and industrial customers, including Legionella risk management. It is structurally similar to Fehr Solutions in emphasizing vendor-neutral consulting and on-site program management.
• Lenntech: Lenntech is a Netherlands-based water treatment solutions provider offering consulting, equipment, and chemicals to industrial clients. It is comparable to Fehr Solutions in delivering water treatment advisory services, though with a stronger equipment and engineering orientation.
• Trojan Technologies: Trojan Technologies (a Danaher subsidiary) specializes in UV disinfection and water treatment technologies for industrial, municipal, and recreational water applications. It is comparable to Fehr Solutions in addressing Legionella and building-water-hygiene risk, though with a hardware/equipment rather than consulting focus.

Direct peers

• ChemTreat: ChemTreat (a Danaher company) provides industrial water treatment chemicals, equipment, and on-site consulting services. It is the most direct competitor to Fehr Solutions in commercial/industrial water treatment consulting, though ChemTreat also sells the chemicals it recommends—a key differentiation point for Fehr's independent model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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