Awards

SATTURN received a prestigious international award from Chile for its distinctive Enceladus wastewater treatment project. During his visit to the Zlín Region, H.E. Patricio Utreras, Ambassador of the Republic of Chile, presented the Strait of Magellan Award to SATTURN HOLEŠOV. The company became the sole recipient in the Czech Republic of this prestigious award for innovation and discovery with a global impact. The award marked the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation expedition, led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.

Magellan’s expedition transformed the way the world was understood, connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and marked the beginning of globalisation. To commemorate this milestone, the foundation recognises innovators who push beyond established boundaries into the unknown. Their exploratory work produces solutions with global potential and helps build a better world.

Fundación Imagen de Chile selected the ENCELADUS project as the Czech winner of this prestigious competition, which celebrates the spirit of Magellan’s exploration 500 years ago by recognising today’s innovators worldwide. The foundation described ENCELADUS and its potential positive global impact as an expression of the same exploratory and innovative spirit that inspired Magellan’s expedition.

The ENCELADUS project and its positive environmental and economic impact worldwide demonstrate the importance of innovative approaches. The award ceremony’s central message was that water is our most precious resource and projects that protect it deserve support. The Strait of Magellan Award will help the project reach both domestic and international markets.

Imagen de Chile also recognised SATTURN HOLEŠOV’s contribution to global innovation in an unusual way: by planting a tree in Chilean Patagonia. The project has therefore also contributed indirectly to reforestation in Patagonia and a better environment for future generations. The company received a certificate enabling it to locate the tree and follow its growth. Through this tree, the innovative project maintains a living presence in Chile and continues to contribute to a better environment.

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Integrated monitoring and telemetry for networks of wastewater treatment plants is a rapidly developing area of SATTURN HOLEŠOV’s business. The company is setting a nationwide trend in decentralised wastewater treatment with telemetry-based control in rural communities and outlying urban areas where centralised sewerage systems are not economically viable.

ENCELADUS integrated telemetry is used to treat municipal wastewater in small communities and outlying urban areas where technical or economic constraints prevent the construction of conventional sewerage networks connected to a central WWTP. The innovative approach combines municipal networks of domestic WWTPs with integrated telemetry, enabling a single qualified operator to manage them through the ENCELADUS service. Online monitoring connects the plants and allows their operating conditions to be controlled remotely. At the time of publication, the company had installed 1,070 wastewater treatment plants in the Czech Republic. 

The CZECH MADE mark is the longest-established quality mark for Czech products and services. It was introduced to help consumers navigate the Czech market. CZECH MADE provides a straightforward way to choose a quality product or service with minimal risk. Its logo represents a quality guarantee, with each product or service assessed by an independent accredited testing body. In 2002, CZECH MADE became one of the first marks admitted to the Czech Quality Programme, backed by the Czech government.

In the Moravian-Silesian Region Construction Award 2020 competition, in the Transport, Civil Engineering and Water Infrastructure category, the company received an Honourable Mention for the Rybí Wastewater Treatment project.
The project provided decentralised wastewater treatment for 190 family homes in Rybí, near Nový Jičín. Its network of domestic WWTPs uses ENCELADUS integrated telemetry for remote online monitoring and centralised control. Telemetry enables cost-effective operation of the network while supporting environmental performance and stable operation across all connected plants.

In the national round, SATTURN HOLEŠOV received second place in the International Innovation Award’s Circular Economy and Carbon Neutrality category for ENCELADUS integrated telemetry for networks of domestic wastewater treatment plants.

The International Innovation Award is organised in cooperation with the European Organisation for Quality. It assesses innovation internationally, focusing on originality, practical applicability, effectiveness and customer orientation. At the time of the award, innovation was highlighted as a way to overcome the crisis and, in the longer term, to help the Czech economy evolve and remain internationally competitive.

Through these awards, the Czech Society for Quality recognises organisations and individuals who make quality their mission, promote it and actively work to put it into practice.