The history of ODYSSEE Environnement
started in 2006 with five industrial
water treatment experts

Their goal was to transpose their commitment to a structure that would embody the innovative approach that is hydroethics. They all share the conviction that it is possible to rebuild the connection between water, industry and the environment without incurring any additional costs. And they’re right!

An adventure launched by a new professional conviction

ODYSSEE Environnement c’est avant tout une histoire d’entrepreneurs, réunis par une conviction forte autour de l’eau et son traitement dans l’industrie.

The company’s founders met at a water treatment firm, where they started talking about a hydroethical approach.

In 2006, when that company was sold to a bigger group, Laurent Ballu, Fabrice Chaussec, Dominique Jai, Jérôme Mougel and Marc Nardelli created ODYSSEE Environnement, with the support of Yves Mougel and Laurent Verdier, ODYSSEE’s very first shareholders.

Ever since, the company has continued to grow, mostly recently with the acquisition of Aquadylle, our longstanding distributor near Toulouse, in late 2023.

Innovation at the heart of our hydroethical approach

ODYSSEE Environnement is rethinking water treatment as a whole: our teams invent, produce, suggest and roll out ever more innovative solutions for optimizing how water is used.

Our entrepreneurial history directly connects ODYSSEE to the first generations of film-forming agents. Now a leader in that technology, ODYSSEE is on the fifth generation of this innovation. ODYSSEE’s film-forming agents are exported around the world to protect metal from the effects of corrosion, while reducing the concentration of active ingredients in water, because the amines deposit a protective coating on the surfaces of water networks.

Inspired by an awareness of the urgent need to provide reliable alternatives to water treatment solutions that mainly use petrochemicals, our hydroethicists have launched further innovations that are decisive to the business sector, all of which came from ODYSSEE’s labs: a biosourced scale inhibitor, a 100% renewable biocide treatment, and the list goes on.