Sugar and ethanol mill with storage tanks at golden hour

Industries

Technology for the industries where water, energy, minerals and data decide the margin.

Six industries, one approach: start from the operational challenge, bring the right technology, prove it on site and scale what works.

Mining & Critical Minerals

Recovery, water, tailings and energy, from the pit to a refined product.

Water & Environmental Technologies

Treatment, reuse and ZLD engineered around the real water chemistry.

Sugar, Ethanol & Bioenergy

A mill is three plants in one: process, water and power.

Agriculture & Biotechnology

From agro-industrial residues to nutrients, inputs and smarter water.

Industrial AI & Machine Learning

Agentic AI that runs every layer of the plant and proves every recommendation.

Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure

Defending the IT, OT and AI systems that critical operations depend on.

Open-pit mine and processing plant surrounded by green hills
Interior of a mineral concentrator with grinding mills and walkways

Industry 01

Mining & Critical Minerals

Mines and refineries face falling ore grades, tighter water and tailings regulation, energy-hungry comminution and the strategic pressure of critical-mineral supply. We bring technologies that recover more value from every tonne, including the tonnes already sitting in the tailings facility.

Challenges we solve

~70%

of concentrator OPEX sits in comminution

>70%

of global lithium refining capacity sits in China

91%

of 2024 refined magnet rare-earth output came from China

$130K

industry benchmark for an hour of unplanned downtime

Sources: IEA Global Critical Minerals Outlook; Applied Sciences 15(3):1602, 2025 (comminution share of concentrator OPEX); published industry benchmark for downtime cost.

Industry 02

Water & Environmental Technologies

Water is the constraint behind every industrial licence. With more than 25 years in industrial and mining wastewater, from full-scale plants in Ghana to water-recycling designs for zinc smelters in Brazil and Peru, including zero liquid discharge, we engineer treatment, reuse and recovery around the real water chemistry, not a vendor catalogue.

Challenges we solve

What we bring

HydroQ

Agentic AI that synthesises complete treatment trains, with deterministic engines validating chemistry, membranes, hydraulics and cost.

Granted US and Chinese patents for industrial wastewater treatment, sulphate and calcium reduction and zero liquid discharge.

Design, construction and long-term operation of full-scale treatment plants, including 10 years of O&M in Ghana.

Technologies under evaluation: ozone nanobubbles, photocatalytic purification and advanced oxidation for soil and groundwater.

$94B → $165B

industrial water infrastructure market, 2025 to 2035

50+

deterministic engineering engines validating every route

10 years

of O&M on full-scale mining wastewater plants in Ghana

3

granted patents in industrial wastewater treatment and ZLD

Sources: group project record (bankergroup.co); market figure from published industrial water infrastructure forecasts.

Aerial view of circular clarifiers at an industrial water treatment plant
Reverse osmosis membrane trains in a water treatment plant
Sugarcane mill at blue hour among green cane fields, steam rising from the chimney and cane trucks on red-earth roads
Raw sugar crystals beside a cut sugarcane stalk

Industry 03

Sugar, Ethanol & Bioenergy

A mill is simultaneously a process plant, a water plant and a power plant, and each of them leaves value on the table. Our ventures are built to reconcile the three in one picture, and to assess residues such as vinasse, filter cake and boiler ash as a potential by-product line rather than a disposal cost.

Challenges we solve

611 Mt

cane crushed in Centre-South Brazil, 2025/26

33.7 bn L

ethanol produced in the same season

10–13 L

vinasse per litre of ethanol, on average

~0.7 m³

water per tonne of cane in the sugar-energy sector

Sources: UNICA 2025/26 Centre-South harvest data; Embrapa review, 2025 (vinasse ratio); sector water-use reporting.

Industry 04

Agriculture & Biotechnology

Brazil imports the great majority of its fertiliser while its own agro-industry generates nutrient-rich residues. We connect the two with recovery routes, water solutions and breakthrough agritech, biotechnology and advanced materials sourced worldwide.

Challenges we solve

45.5 Mt

fertiliser imported by Brazil in 2025

<15%

of consumption produced domestically

96%

of the potash used is imported

$4.5B → $7.3B

biostimulants market, 2025 to 2030

Sources: Insper Agro and farmdoc daily, 2026 (import dependence); Brazilian trade data, 2025; MarketsandMarkets, 2025 (biostimulants).

Aerial view of centre-pivot irrigated farmland
Rows of young plants in an agricultural biotechnology greenhouse
Holographic digital twin of a processing plant in teal wireframe
Engineering control room at dusk overlooking an open-pit mine

Industry 05

Industrial AI & Machine Learning

Most industrial AI stops at a dashboard. Ours is agentic and accountable: specialised agents for every layer of the plant, a deterministic engine floor that closes mass, water and energy balance, and one supervisor that resolves conflicts between layers and records why.

Challenges we solve

10

domain layers reconciled as one plant picture

$100K–130K

benchmark cost of an hour of unplanned downtime

3

operating modes: advisory, supervisory, closed loop

6

steps in the chain: sense, integrate, learn, predict, optimise, decide

Downtime figure is a published industry benchmark, not a guaranteed saving. Performance targets require site-specific validation.

Industry 06

Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure

Water and mineral operations run on connected plants, remote vendors and industrial control systems. OreKeep Cyber secures them with one team across IT, OT and AI, planned with the engineers who run the plant, so security does not become the outage.

Challenges we solve

What we bring

OreKeep Cyber

Assess, protect, monitor and hunt, respond: four stages and one chain of evidence, scoped per site.

Twenty services in five families, from governance and vCISO leadership to OT hardening, threat intelligence and incident response.

Defensive and offensive services for private-sector and government clients, always under written authorisation.

Recognised frameworks: NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001 readiness, CISA guidance for OT and OWASP for AI agents.

42 days

average time to detect and contain an OT ransomware incident

+49%

more ransomware groups targeting industrial organisations, year on year

20

services in five families, scoped per site

IT + OT + AI

one integrated defence programme

Source: Dragos OT/ICS cybersecurity report, 2026.

Industrial control cabinet with PLCs and network cabling
Operations centre overlooking a mine at night

Beyond these six

Not seeing your industry?

Pulp and paper, chemicals, food, industrial utilities, oil and gas: the challenges rhyme (water, recovery, energy, residues, data and cyber risk).

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