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Tankclean Sweden is aiming to become a major player in the tank cleaning business. TCM catches up with the company’s CEO Thomas Nordbeck. How did you get into the tank cleaning business? I was managing a Gothenburg-based bulk transport company. As the company began to grow, the demands for cleaning the containers that transported the goods also began to grow. The city already had one... cleaning station. Yet, I recognised the need to launch a bulk cleaning station where we could bring several services together under one unit. [read more]

The Finnish Tank Cleaning Association (FINTCA) is the Finnish trade associationfor professional, certified tank cleaning stations. The association was founded in 2012 and has six full-time members. Its main aim is to help members to organise tank cleaning in a safe and environmental manner. FINTCA members are professional operators of tank cleaning stations, specialising in the cleaning of liquid... and powder transportation vessels, such as road tanker trucks, tank containers, rail tanker cars, and smaller units like intermediate bulk containers(IBCs). [read more]

In spite of efforts by trade associations, tank cleaning firms and logistic companies, workers continue to be killed by nitrogen widely used for product transfer and cargo protection in the tank container industry. In fact, in August 2016 a fatal accident occurred at a Central European tank cleaning station. An employee had geared up for entering a tank, which had last held highly dangerous... isocyanate. [read more]

Tank cleaning is looked upon bysome as an industrial, very down-to earth activity, not at all connected to common buzzwords like digitalisation and complex business management processes. This could not be more wrong.Tank cleaning is very much a complex business, which requires competence and knowledge across many boundaries. Few IT related businesses pay any attention to this complex arena.

When an oil and gas giant needed anew tank cleaning system for its site in Alberta, Canada, the company turned to Danish tank cleaning technology expert Oreco and US-headquartered environmental services firm Orion Tank Solutions (OTS) for help. Now reducing it stank cleaning safety risk by a significant amount, the new innovative technology provided by Oreco and operated by Orion has removed more... than 200 hoursper day of confined space entry. [read more]

Car- & Truckwash (CTW) is a Belgian company that specialises in the washing of cars and trucks and tank cleaning. With its experience, CTW supports all its customers with the renovation and construction of new cleaning stations from start to finish. CTW develops tank cleaning facilities for sectors that include: