Industrial Cleaning
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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View Full Case Study Problem Seeking to ensure both high-quality, consistent industrial cleaning and the best available options in safety and efficiency, an Ohio chemical manufacturing facility requested bids from industrial cleaning contractors specializing in automated tooling. The plant selected MPW Industrial Services from a multitude of options, based on MPW’s history of results and […]
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View Full Case Study Problem An inherent problem with high-pressure water blasting is that operators run the risk of severe body lacerations due to inadvertent contact with the powerful jet stream. To mitigate the operation of hand-held blasters during a cleaning procedure at an ethanol refinery in Indiana, the refinery reached out to industrial cleaning […]
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View Full Case Study Problem A serious obstacle involved in the continuous casting steel-production process is the presence of scale in cooling water, which is discharged from the mill into scale pits where the heavier solid particles settle out. When high levels of scale occur, the equipment in the system becomes fouled and overtaxed, leading […]
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View Full Case Study Problem A steel plant located in Southwestern Ohio recently constructed a new tar tank to replace its old 700,000 gallon tar tank. The decommissioned tank had been out of service since 2008. The plant wanted the tank and its contents of tar, sand and other debris removed from the site. As […]
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View Case Study Problem When a Virginia cigarette-manufacturing facility needed to eliminate 30 years of coal ash and dust, it chose the one company it trusted to complete the job with an emphasis on safety, efficiency and quality of clean. That company is MPW Industrial Services. The plant was decommissioning its coal-fired power source in […]
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View Full Case Study Problem A coal-fired power plant in West Virginia faced the problems of operational space shortage and excessive safety hazards during its chaotic spring outage. With an excess of people and equipment working simultaneously, the power station sought methods that would reduce man-hours, improve safety and upgrade efficiency. MPW Industrial Services provided […]
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