Jan 11, 2022
ECTA releases latest best practice guide for chemical industry
Feature
Jan 4, 2022
Businesses operating within the food industry, especially when transporting and handling food on a commercial scale, must ensure that they understand the risks and dangers that can occur if something goes wrong, and put steps in place to take all necessary precautions to avoid an incident occurring.
When food substances are unwantedly exposed to the environment, whether... [Read More]
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Jan 4, 2022
Suttons International has completed the asset purchase of the overseas ISO tank containers, personnel, and customer contracts of VTG Tanktainer.
This is a subsidiary of VTG Aktiengesellschaft (VTG).
Suttons International Limited is part of the family-owned Suttons Group, a logistics business providing end-to-end solutions and services to the bulk liquid, gases and powders... [Read More]
Feature
Dec 29, 2021
Jochen van Hoydonck, business manager at HTC Tank Cleaning Services, explains how the company has diversified from tank cleaning and is now involved with the shipping industry.
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what HTC does?
In 1998, HTC started its first tank cleaning station on a strategic location close to the highway between the port of Antwerp,... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2021
The European Federation of Tank Cleaning Organisations (EFTCO) has announced the successful global membership application of Depotrans Brazil as its latest member. The company is EFTCO’s second global member.
DEPOTRANS has proven its quality approach to tank cleaning with the quality audit SASSMAQ - a comparable audit system to SQAS in South America. This was completed... [Read More]
Feature
Dec 15, 2021
Cleaning stations can ensure that they meet hygiene requirements for food and feed transport containers by signing up to the ENFIT High Quality Food (HQF) standard.
This standard applies to cleaning stations where containers hold raw material and food and feed. The globally-recognised certification proves that the products have been thoroughly cleaned during each part... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2021
bp has acquired a 28.57% stake in Gasrec - the UK’s largest dual provider of bio-Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) and bio-Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to road transport.
bp will supply Gasrec with renewable biomethane produced mainly from organic wastes, such as food and dairy manure.
The investment will expand bp’s UK footprint in renewable gas production and distribution,... [Read More]
Feature
Dec 1, 2021
Sergio Saez Castro, technical sales manager at TURCO Spain, speaks to Tank Cleaning Magazine about the challenges the company has faced in the past 12 months.
Could you introduce yourself to our readers?
I am Sergio Sáez Castro, technical sales manager of TURCO Spain, which manufactures cleaning compounds for the tank cleaning industry. Sixty years ago, TURCO started... [Read More]
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Nov 25, 2021
Isotank Services has completed the acquisition of PM Rees & Sons and Atlantic Tank Clean Barry from Peter Rees.
PM Rees is a ISO tank services and trucking business based in Wales, UK.
“We are tremendously excited about the acquisition of PM Rees, which helps continue to build out our international footprint with a strong position in the strategically important chemical... [Read More]
Feature
Nov 24, 2021
OMZ has been providing tank washing services to customers for almost 70 years. Tank Cleaning Magazine caught up with OMZ’s Moreno Romanini about the company’s growing success.
Can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and OMZ?
I am the operative director of OMZ, a company which is involved in industrial washing plants and highly automated washing systems that... [Read More]
cleaning
Nov 18, 2021
Netherlands-based Imperial has opened a new tank cleaning facility in the country.
The new depot in Terneuzen replaces the firm’s smaller operational site at Axel.
It has three separate cleaning bays - two for standard chemical products, operating at 100-200 bar pressure and with five or six cleaning heads.
There will also be a third cleaning line with a re-circulation... [Read More]
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Nov 16, 2021
Royal Den Hartogh Logistics has identified the Asia Pacific (APAC) region as a key engine of growth.
The company said it has an aspirational ambition to be a leading regional tank operator offering one-stop, deep-sea and intra-APAC logistics services.
Den Hartogh added that it was closer to this ambition with the merger between Den Hartogh and the MUTO group of companies... [Read More]
Feature
Nov 12, 2021
Carbon footprint reduction is a declared sustainability target of the HOYER Group.
As well as modernising its fleet, the international logistics specialist is focusing on new drive systems with energy sources such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG), together with electric stacker truck fleets. HOYER is progressively expanding its fleet with... [Read More]
cleaning
Nov 8, 2021
Abbey Logistics was on hand to support the final preparations for polar research ship the RRS Sir David Attenborough ahead of its maiden voyage to the Antarctic.
The ship, named after the TV naturalist and BBC presenter Sir David Attenborough, has spent the past year in shake-down trials around the British coast and is now in final preparations for its first ocean voyage... [Read More]
cleaning
Nov 4, 2021
Suttons International Limited and VTG Tanktainer have announced that they have signed an asset purchase agreement.
This involves the acquisition by Suttons of VTG’ overseas ISO tank containers, personnel, and customer contracts, including VTG interests in a joint venture with Mission Line in Brazil.
Suttons International Limited is part of the family-owned Suttons... [Read More]
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Nov 3, 2021
The international rating platform EcoVadis has awarded a Bronze medal to HOYER for its sustainability activities.
This is reward for the international logistics company’s strategic efforts to proactively take responsibility for the long-term environmental, economic and ethical aspects of its corporate activities.
The HOYER Group underwent the rating process for the... [Read More]
The #Sutton and #Broadhurst families have completed the sale of their interest in Suttons Tankers Holdings Limited and its trading subsidiary, Suttons Tankers Limited, to @SchenkTransport - a tank transport company based in the #Netherlands.
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