What made 2025 a defining year for AMS?
2025 marked a major inflection point for AMS. The company transitioned from being a technology innovator to a market-shaping solutions provider. This shift was driven by new ownership, first-of-its-kind commercial deployments, and accelerating global demand for sustainable water solutions. Together, these milestones positioned AMS for scalable and profitable growth amid rising regulatory, environmental, and financial pressures in the global water sector.
What did the new ownership mean for AMS?
AMS welcomed a new majority shareholder who made a significant investment to support the company’s growth. This investment reflects strong confidence in both the AMS team and the revenue potential of its proprietary water treatment technologies, which have been developed over the past 15 years. It also strengthens AMS’s position as a future major player in the global water industry.
How is AMS turning innovation into commercial reality?
AMS Environment’s on-site electrolytic reagent generation platform, SafeGuard™ H2O, enables the treatment of multiple high-impact contaminants across industrial sectors such as semiconductors, data centers, mining, power generation, and municipalities. This solution directly addresses the rising capital and operating costs of traditional treatment technologies, especially as industries and cities face growing pressure to reuse water and remove an expanding list of harmful contaminants.
What is SafeGuard™ H2O and why is it significant?
In 2025, AMS began commercial deployment of its proprietary SafeGuard™ H2O technology. The system generates stannous, ferrate, and ferrous reagents on site and on demand, replacing traditional treatment approaches that are often ineffective or prohibitively expensive due to toxic waste disposal requirements. SafeGuard H2O provides a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative to bulk chemical reagents.
What was AMS’s first major commercial success with SafeGuard™ H2O?
AMS secured its first commercial contract to treat carcinogenic hexavalent chromium in California drinking water supplies serving more than 5 million people. The solution delivers treatment at a 40% lower lifetime cost than alternative technologies, validating both the economic and environmental advantages of AMS’s approach.
What strategic partnerships strengthened AMS in 2025?
A key milestone was AMS’s partnership with BIOBOX®. Following a successful demonstration in 2024, Maricopa County, Arizona, granted the Town of Gilbert approval to proceed with a full-scale biological denitrification system. This project addresses the treatment of nitrate-contaminated groundwater in a fast-growing region that can no longer be dependent on imported water.
Integrated monitoring and control systems support automated water treatment operations.
How does the BIOBOX® solution differ from traditional nitrate treatment?
Traditional nitrate treatment methods typically remove contaminants but generate toxic waste that must be transported and treated elsewhere. BIOBOX delivers an automated, containerized, modular system that destroys nitrates in situ, producing no toxic waste streams and enabling rapid deployment at the point of use.
What defines AMS Environment’s overall market focus?
AMS Environment focuses on advanced treatment of deteriorating water resources to meet growing industrial and municipal demand. Treatment solutions are automated by AMS Analytics to minimize operating costs, avoid toxic waste streams, and are containerized for rapid, on-site deployment.
What role does AMS Analytics play in the company’s strategy?
AMS Analytics is a leader in real-time monitoring of high-impact water contaminants that threaten industrial processes, infrastructure, the environment, and human health. Online analyzers significantly reduce operating costs for an installed asset base that was often designed decades ago without accounting for lifetime energy, chemical, labor, and waste disposal costs.
What commercial progress did AMS Analytics achieve in 2025?
In 2025, AMS Analytics secured partnerships with several leading U.S. manufacturers’ representatives, expanding national coverage across key municipal and industrial markets. The company also continued to invest in the instran® line of online organic and inorganic analyzers and expanded its international footprint through partners in Europe and Asia.
Were there any notable international milestones?
Yes. In Malaysia, AMS received regulatory approval for its online THM analyzer, THM-100™, to be deployed in new water treatment plants designed to meet the needs of a growing population requiring access to safe drinking water.
How does AMS’s business model differentiate it from competitors?
AMS operates a servitization-based business model built around unparalleled customer service and 24/7 access to mission-critical data. In 2025, AMS achieved more than 99% average uptime across its installed base of over 100 online water quality analyzers, supported by a 10-year warranty, a 99% client retention rate, and a 100% replacement rate at end of service life.
What is AMS Access and why is it important?
AMS Access, formally introduced in 2025, is a data plan pricing model that allows clients to pay only for the data they consume, rather than purchasing hardware. Supported by AMS’s advanced data management platform, this model sets the company apart from traditional instrumentation vendors.
Why is the outlook for AMS so positive?
The global water sector faces growing challenges from deteriorating water quality, stricter regulations, rising energy and chemical costs, and increasing volumes of toxic waste. These pressures create significant opportunities for AMS’s electrolytically generated chemical reagents and its real-time water quality monitoring technologies, both of which reduce costs and environmental impact.
Where does AMS see growth opportunities in 2026 and beyond?
AMS’s electrolytically generated chemicals are currently under evaluation across sectors including semiconductors, desalination, power generation, and municipal wastewater treatment. Positive customer feedback and demonstration results are expected to lead to additional orders. At the same time, the vast installed base of aging water infrastructure presents a largely untapped global market for AMS Analytics.
What is AMS’s position heading into 2026?
AMS enters 2026 under new ownership with a strong balance sheet, proven technologies, and a confident, energized management team. Backed by a global pipeline of opportunities, the company is targeting double-digit revenue growth while helping industries and municipalities transform how they treat and manage water in an increasingly resource-constrained world.
