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QUEENSBURY, N.Y. — MPW Industrial Services today announced the opening of its branch location here. About 60 miles north of Albany, N.Y., the branch specializes in industrial cleaning, including high-pressure water blasting and vacuum truck services. MPW named David Cronk branch manager and Michael Otruba operations manager. Cronk has more than 23 years of experience […]
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View Full Case Study Problem At a waste-to-energy facility in the Midwest, an industrial cleaning contractor was using a series of mechanical winches to remove pluggage and ash deposits from the boiler tube lanes which span the mud drum and steam drum. Two technicians would control the winch while a third tech functioned as a […]
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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 Industrial-based corporations commonly search for cost-cutting measures from their vendors, but few are able to achieve immediate savings and efficiencies. MPW Industrial Services has consistently delivered on its pledge to provide supreme service and value to its customers, and an example of this is presented in the case of MPW’s […]
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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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