IET-Aquaresearch Ltd
27 route 143, South P.O. Box 2680,, North Hatley
, Quebec, Canada

IET-Aquaresearch Ltd is situated on 111 acres by North Hatley, Quebec, Canada. Private woodlands, more than 5 acres of lake and ponds surround the headquarters. IET-Aquaresearch Ltd was incorporated, in 1984, by its owners Dr. Marie-Claude Cantin and Dr. Karl F. Ehrlich, as an outgrowth of Le Centre de Recherche Environnementale. The founders expertise in culture of aquatic and marine organisms, at the base of food webs, was the origin of corporate development.

The first activities of the company concerned the development of a commercial aeroponic system for plant production and a commercial fish hatchery, based on the water recirculation, for smallmouth bass. The concept of using aeroponically grown plants to treat the wastewater from fish production led to the development of biofilters and microbial inoculants to hasten filter start up and to optimize the water quality in aquacultural production.

The result of these activities was the development and the commercialization of the Bacta-Pur® System, natural non-toxic, non-chemical solution to environmental pollution, which have become the cutting edge of cost effective solutions for restoring and protecting the water quality. The Bacta-Pur® System includes the ECOPROBIOTICS® (beneficial communities of natural micro-organismes), the ECOPREBIOTICS™ (nutrients for the growth of beneficial cultures) and the family of the equipment, the BACTIVATOR®, for optimization of physiological condition of ECOPROBIOTICS® and their automized addition.

IET Aquaresearch Ltd was the only company working in environmental probiotics to participate in the Team Canada trade mission to Asia, in 1997, to expand exports. In 2001, IET-Aquaresearch Ltd won the Grand Prize for environmental excellence from the Environmental Estern Township Foundation in Quebec, for 18 years of helping improving environmental quality. IET-Aquaresearch Ltd has its own research and development facilities and finances its research and development programs to stay on the cutting edge of rapidly developing fields of applied microbial ecology for wastewater treatment, water quality improvement in aquaculture, water bodies restoration, biodegradation of organic industrial waste. IET-Aquaresearch Ltd has conducted research with groups such as the Canadian National Research Council (CNRC), Massachusetts School of Pharmacy, other universities and leading private companies.

OUR MISSION

IET-Aquaresearch Ltd is committed to quality and excellence and has a policy of continuous improvement. We are dedicated to providing ecologically sound and cost-effective systems, based on ECOPROBIOTICS®, ecological engineering and biological solutions, to optimize wastewater treatment and to contribute to restoring the quality of our planet's precious water supply and to protect the Earth and its habitants.

IET-Aquaresearch, founded in 1984, develops and applies biological solutions to what appears to be ever increasing pollution. We have been providing cost-effective biological solutions to environmental challenges, on five continents. This has allowed us to understand the limits, as well as the possibilities that applied microbial ecology can bring to our common universal heritage “ The Earth and its habitants”.