Sapphire Water has an experienced team to help you design and implement the best solution to suit your needs.
Sapphire Team
Murray Brothers
Vice President
Murray H. Brothers has been in the water business since 1980. His experience in the business began with working with pumps, and moved into water treatment in 1984. Since then, he has done nearly every aspect of water treatment, from Vancouver to Halifax. Murray has pioneered membrane treatment on the prairies. He installed the first Municipal Membrane Water Treatment Plant in Saskatchewan. Brackish well water, along with very cold temperatures mixed with high amounts of iron and manganese present many challenges in membrane treatment. Murray's methods for treating this type of water with membranes are a benchmark followed by everyone in the field today.
Roger Chapman
Vice President
Roger Chapman has been a journeyman electrician for 42 years. Roger has worked as an electrician in both industrial and commercial construction, electrical maintenance, process maintenance, system and process design and most phases of the electrical and automation industry. Roger has primarily managed automation and installation projects for the last 20 years concentrating on water, wastewater and process systems for over 15 years.
Sasha Naumchik
Sales Manager, Alberta & Saskatchewan
Sasha Naumchik is a specialist in domestic biological treatment package wastewater systems. He has installed many of these systems himself, and has also trained installers, operators and service specialists to install, operate and service wastewater systems. He has a very strong background in mechanical and biological treatment systems and is also experienced in sediments processing and disinfection.
Kevin Lemmerich
Manager, Sapphire Automation
Kevin Lemmerich acquired his Electronics Service Technician certificate, graduating amongst the top of his class. He subsequently spent 5 years in the retail/commercial/industrial world of wireless communications in Medicine Hat, Alberta, where his main focus was on integrating wireless systems dealing with voice, data, and instrumentation. The majority of this work was in the oilfield, but included a variety of other clients such as the British Army – multiple high-speed, real-time, wireless links from air to ground for reconnaissance, Telus Mobility – Emergency on-call for the southern corridor of Alberta, and Cypress County – GPS vehicle location, tracking, mapping, and logging. Kevin took on the roll of a Control/Automation Programmer, and Apprentice Electrician in 2003, focusing primarily on Water and Wastewater solutions.
Clarence Buhs
Operations Manager, Sapphire Manufacturing
Clarence Buhs was a self-employed entrepreneur with his focus mainly in the agriculture industry before he joined Central Water in 1997. He was a key person in the growth of the company that we know today as Sapphire Water. Clarence started out in the design and manufacturing of the first 8 inch RO membrane for a 30GPM system for Cathedral Bluffs, near Saskatoon in Saskatchewan. Quickly progressing to managing and overseeing all details and plant operations of commercial and industrial membrane systems manufactured, he became an expert in the water industry. Clarence's experience over the last 13 years has earned him the title of "our water specialist".
