Industrial Cleaning
Last year, MPW purchased a new building for the Industrial Cleaning Division’s Northeastern District. The facility, located at 2680 Commercial Ave., in Mingo Junction, Ohio, is a larger, more modern, more convenient location. MPW employees who work in the new facility are enjoying the improved workspace. Here’s what Brett Brandon, Mike Nicholson, Moe Berger and Clay […]
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View Full White Paper It’s no secret that preventive maintenance practices can drastically improve the overall efficiency and reliability of a refinery or any other industrial operation. However, while some types of repairs can be made while the equipment is operating, many times a major overhaul of the plant, or a turnaround (TAR), is necessary […]
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View Full Case Study An automotive manufacturing facility in the Southeastern United States sought a partner with the innovative capabilities to improve the safety and efficiency of its industrial cleaning processes. Specifically, the plant required improvements for its procedures to remove sludge buildup from pipes inside phosphate tanks. Previous cleaning attempts were performed with manual-lancing […]
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As part of our regular staff spotlight series, we recently caught up with Curt Ruff, Corporate Director of Maintenance at MPW Industrial Services. In March 2018, Curt will celebrate 35 years with the company, working his way up from a welder to a member of our corporate leadership team. Today, we’re highlighting his many contributions […]
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View Jet News By Jimmy Peck, General Manager, MPW Industrial Services and a member of the WJTA Board of Directors Cleaning, repairing or inspecting critical equipment often requires workers to enter small, sometimes life-threatening, spaces like tanks or pipes where they may be exposed to hazardous material. Commonly referred to as “confined spaces,” these areas […]
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MPW Environmental Services, Inc., accepted two Zero Injury Safety Awards (ZISAs) from the National Maintenance Agreements Policy Committee, Inc. (NMAPC), for 2016. The awards are for 214,922 zero-injury man-hours at FirstEnergy’s Bruce Mansfield Plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania and 79,733 zero-injury man-hours at FirstEnergy’s W. H. Sammis Plant in Stratton, Ohio. “MPW is honored to receive […]
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View Full Case Study An automotive manufacturer in the Southeastern United States was struggling to find an industrial cleaning provider that could effectively cleanse the engine assembly block line cells within its mandated eight-day window of downtime. But after touring another facility’s engine assembly block line and learning that it had been cleaned by MPW […]
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View Jet News By Jimmy Peck, General Manager, MPW Industrial Services and a member of the WJTA Board of Directors In the industrial sector, the cleaning and inspection of critical equipment plays a significant role in any maintenance program. While plant management generally understands the importance of maintaining a regular cleaning schedule, unfortunately the process […]
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Jimmy Peck, General Manager of MPW’s Industrial Cleaning Division, was named to Board of Directors of the WaterJet Technology Association (WTJA) and Industrial & Municipal Cleaning Association (IMCA) in September. Peck’s four-year term will begin October 25. In an acceptance letter, WJTA-IMCA Association Manager Peter Wright wrote that Peck’s candidacy demonstrates “interest in, and support […]
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View Full Case Study Problem A global polymer producer located in Ohio sought to improve the annual outage cleaning of its heat exchangers. Historically, industrial cleaning contractors hand lanced the heat exchanger tubes, servicing four to six exchangers per night for two weeks to fit within the outage schedule. But often, multiple heat exchangers would […]
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