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MPW innovation tackles mountain of contaminated storage units
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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
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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
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Read More about MPW’s automated lance improves safety and efficiency of boiler cleaningEmphasis on safety leads to development of MPW’s RB X-40
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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
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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
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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
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Read More about MPW’s improvements lead to savings for Southeastern pulp and paper facilityProblem
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.
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Read More about MPW’s record of safety, efficiency exceeds standards of Ohio steelmakerTechnology Leads to Superior Cleaning Case Study
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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
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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
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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,
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Read More about Automation leads to safer, faster cleaning of evaporator tubes at ethanol refinery