Industrial Cleaning
View Full Case Study Problem During the fall of 2012, a major coal-fired power-generating plant was tasked to find a new vendor to perform a boiler wash, precipitator wash, SCR vacuuming, cyclone wash, ID/FD fan wash and air-pre heater wash and vacuuming. During the course of the bid process MPW Industrial Services exceeded expectations in […]
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View Full Case Study Problem A Florida sugar manufacturing plant was using chemical cleaning processes on evaporator tubes. Over the course of a season the residue left after each clean accumulated to the point that heat transfer was problematic during the months of January and February when the mill and cane supply operations were optimized. […]
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View Full Case Study Problem A U.S. based Steel manufacturer was looking to reduce its costs by 10 percent year over year for a three-year period in order to maintain its competitive position within the marketplace. In addition to the cost savings, the client wanted to maintain excellent safety and quality-of-service records. Solution MPW proposed […]
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View Full Case Study Problem When an inspection revealed organic material on 80,000 wooden product-storage components in multiple warehouses, a Virginia-based manufacturing company was left with two options: destroy the storage units and purchase new ones, or find a vendor with the capability of efficiently removing the organic material. The fouling had the potential to […]
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View Full Case Study Problem An energy-from-waste plant in the Midwest faced the challenge of hiring an industrial cleaning partner that could improve the safety and efficiency of boiler-cleaning processes during outages. Previous contractors encountered malfunctions and failures with their pumps in previous attempts to clean the boiler. This led to delays that interrupted other […]
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View Full Case Study Problem An Ohio coal-fired power plant faced safety and efficiency concerns when cleaning fly ash from duct work.The ducts, which are 12 feet wide and 12 to 14 feet high, present all the safety and productivity challenges of confined space work. The fly ash buildup ranged from 2 feet to 8 […]
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View Full Case Study Problem When a Virginia pulp and paper mill accepted bids to clean its white liquor tank, it was looking for a contractor with the innovative capabilities to conceive and apply a procedure to increase the speed and effectiveness of the clean while also removing workers from entering the potentially dangerous setting. […]
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View Full Case Study Problem A Florida pulp and paper mill faced a complicated, dangerous process to clean its power boiler during scheduled outages. Previous efforts to clean the boiler included manual water jetting from scaffolding, which posed a safety risk to workers below due to the potential for falling debris. Solution The Operations team […]
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View Full Case Study Problem In 2012, a Northern Ohio steelmaker’s former primary industrial-cleaning contractor reported numerous OSHA-recordable incidents, causing countless losses in man-hours and plant efficiency. Further, the facility was seeking an industrial cleaning company that would complete its work with greater levels of quality and efficiency. The steel producer didn’t need to look […]
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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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