Nexom Inc., a Wisconsin-based wastewater treatment technology provider, has moved the former Blue Water Technologies Inc. office to Post Falls, says research and development manager CJ Strain.

The Nexom office now occupies 1,900 square feet of leased space in the St. Joseph’s Ear, Nose & Throat Clinic building, at 323 N. Spokane, in central Post Falls.

Nexom, which acquired Hayden-based Blue Water in September, had been located in Blue Water’s headquarters building at 10450 N. Airport Drive, near the Coeur d’Alene Airport.

Nexom will focus its Post Falls resources on engineering filtration projects for wastewater treatment systems, Strain says.

“Blue Water’s model was an engineering and technology company that tried to do manufacturing; Nexom’s model is to keep (Blue Water’s) engineering resources, but outsource manufacturing to fabrication shops already doing light manufacturing,” Strain says, adding, “Some local manufacturers will get a little more business.”

The Post Falls office has a 10-person staff, consisting of five project-support employees and five engineers, two of whom have been hired since the acquisition by Nexom, Strain says.

A Journal article published in 2010 reported Blue Water’s office and shop in Hayden had 24 employees and occupied 20,000 square feet of space.

Blue Water was founded in 2003 as a technology-transfer venture from the University of Idaho that developed phosphorus removal technologies. Blue Water also had licensed and invented technologies that remove other contaminants during wastewater treatment, including nitrates and mercury.

Nexom’s September announcement of the acquisition said Blue Water’s systems and technologies are installed in more than 300 municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities worldwide.

Blue Water’s proprietary technologies, which include its Blue Pro reactive phosphorous filtration and its Eco Belt, a rotating belt filter, are now under the Nexom brand.

Nexom’s U.S. headquarters are in Grafton, Wis. The company also has a Canadian office in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Nexom now has more than 50 employees, the company’s online corporate profile says.

The company completed 40 projects in 2016 with values ranging from $100,000 to $3.8 million.

Craig Hunter and Rob Kannapien, brokers with Coeur d’Alene-based Coldwell Banker Commercial Schneidmiller Realty, negotiated Nexom’s lease in Post Falls.