Veolia Environnement SA designs and provides water, waste, and energy management solutions. It operates through France and Hazardous Waste Europe; Europe; Americas, Asia Pacific, Africa Middle-East; Water Technologies; and Other segments. The company is involved in resource management; production, treatment, distribution, and delivery of drinking and industrial process water; customer relationship management; collection, treatment, and recycling of wastewater; provision of organic matter, salts, metals, complex molecules, and energy; design and construction of water treatment and network infrastructure; and sale of water treatment equipment, technologies, and facilities. It also provides waste collection, product and waste material recovery, and waste-to-energy processing, including sale of recycled products; material recovery of organic waste; dismantling and remediation; hazardous waste processing and treatment; urban cleaning; and industrial maintenance and cleaning services. In addition, the company engages in the operation and maintenance of heating and cooling networks; optimization of industrial utilities, such as steam generation, cooling, electricity, and compressed air; installation and maintenance of production equipment; development of energy services to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions of buildings; integrated services for building management; production of electricity from renewable and alternative energy sources, including geothermy, biomass, co-generation, and wastewater plants, etc.; and provision of Hubgrade, a management platform for building and infrastructure energy efficiency monitoring, as well as thermal and multi-technical services. It serves industrial and service sector companies, public authorities, and individuals. The company was formerly known as Vivendi Environnement and changed its name to Veolia Environnement SA in January 2003. Veolia Environnement SA was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in Aubervilliers, France.
