Safety-Kleen

OEM : Chemical

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Richardson, Texas, United States

NYSE: CLH

With more than fifty years of experience, Safety-Kleen is recognized as a trusted provider of environmental solutions to over 200,000 customer locations, delivering responsible closed-loop solutions for managing many of our customers’ waste streams. These solutions allow us to recycle, reclaim and reuse both used oil and spent cleaning solvent. This system conserves natural resources, reduces our customers’ environmental liability, and provides us with economic advantages through the reduction of costs and the sale of recovered products.

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Parts cleaning: the manufacturing maintenance saving you’ve never heard of

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✍️ Author: Tim Brown

🔖 Topics: recycling, sustainability, equipment cleaning

🏢 Organizations: Knorr-Bremse, Safety-Kleen


“Our new process, developed with the new Automatic Aqueous cleaning machine solution supplied by Safetykleen, reduced the cleaning cycle from 30 minutes down to 7 minutes!,” said a spokesperson at Knorr-Bremse “Not only was the cleaning time reduced but the cleaning is now more efficient and has significantly less environmental impact.”

The use of a parts washer can dramatically decrease the personnel time required for the cleaning component of maintenance and allows maintenance workers to focus on the key tasks of disassembly, reassembly and testing. According to feedback from users, an automatic parts washing machine can complete two days’ worth of manual cleaning in around 3 hours and reduce maintenance personnel requirements by 23%.

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