The Barbados-based water maintenance and management company Ecohesion has been taken over by a Canada-based firm in a deal that officials say will create tremendous opportunity for Barbados in the area of wastewater management.Officials declined to disclose the value of the merger with sustainable infrastructure development specialist firm Integrated Sustainability, but noted that it was “major” and had been concluded after several years of discussion.“I think the union of our two companies was very natural,” said Nick St-Georges, Vice President of International operations at Integrated Sustainability.He indicated that the company was involved in a number of water sustainability projects across the region.“We are naturally going to be looking for bigger opportunities. We have partnerships that can complement us and provide financing and construction support.
