Kronospan is spending between £65,000-70,000 to trial a water treatment system at its Chirk site.
The company is working with the Environment Agency Wales and Ellison Environmental Services to use latest technologies to update existing water storage lagoons.
The system means that more rainwater will be recycled for use at the factory and any excess will be filtered before flowing back into the Afon Bradley river.
The biologically aerated filter will house bacteria capable of removing ammonia and other harmful organic compounds from the water.
Kronospan’s environmental co-ordinator Ian Ferguson said the company was optimistic that the trial would work. The problems might be whether it could cope with solid timber and what sort of volumes it would be capable of handling.
He added: “The technology is not proven in what we are going to throw at it. We expect the trial to run for about six months and if it is successful it will cost around £500,000 to put the whole system in place.”
