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Volume 4, Issue 1
Five minutes with ITCO's president
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In December 2016, Reg Lee was elected to the position of president of ITCO – the International Tank Container Organisation. Lee was previously president of ITCO from 2004 to 2010 and has been president of @TCO, the Asian Tank Container Organisation, since 2011. His term of office as ITCO’s president commenced on 1 January2017 and will run until the end of 2018. Here, TCM spends five...
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Best practice guidelines
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For many years, there have been different tank cleaning requirements defined across the polymer industry. Each polymer supplier or transport operator has made adjustments to their cleaning requirements based on previous experiences and as areaction to contamination incidents. The existence of multiple cleaning specifications creates confusion for the haulier, the cleaning stations and the...
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Cleaning containers in Chile
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The International Tank ContainerOrganisation (ITCO) estimates that more than 444,000 ISO containers are in use around the globe. Compared to 2014, this is an increase of 12.6%. Despite constantly increasing trade volumes, thorough health and environmentally-friendly as well as fastand efficient interior cleaning of ISOcontainers must be ensured prior to each new filling.
Meeting VdF requirements
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More attention is being paid towards the tank cleaning industry, as the food sector strives to reach high standards of hygiene to conform to food safety rules. Due to the fact that the products and ingredients come into direct physical contact with transport equipment, the tanker cleaning process is essential. Some serious food safety incidents, especially in relation to allergens, have made the...
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ENFIT: New developments and standards
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The European and International Tank Cleaning Association (ENFIT) has been working on developing and implementing European and international quality standards for cleaning and disinfecting food, feed and chemical transport containers since 2008. ENFIT offers international standards for cleaning, disinfecting and traceability to its members, such as tank cleaners, logistics companies, the chemical...
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Busy in Belgium
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An independent tank cleaning company in Belgium is seeing strong demand for its services. The company is planning to launch a new tank cleaning base called HTC Colombus Container Service near the Scheldelaan road in Antwerp, which will open in June. Here, Jochen Van Hoydonck, business manager at Group HTC– TankCleaning, gives TCM an insight into the company’s past aims and future ones.
All over Europe
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Car- & Truckwash (CTW) is a Belgian installer of tank cleaning stations. Withmore than 30 years of experience, CTW supports its customers with the renovation and construction of new cleaning stations from start to finish. The company develops and realises tank cleaning facilities forthe internal cleaning of silo/bulk tanks,chemical tanks, food tanks, containers, railway carriages, and...
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DVTI: Food glorious food
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After the rollercoaster ride that was 2016, the tank cleaning industry is wondering what the rest of 2017 might have in store for it. Following the somewhat surprising results to the Brexit referendum in the UK last year, the presidential election in the US, and even some the unexpected deaths of some of the greats of the entertainment world, some might argue that what the sector is really...
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Cloud services and security
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Tank cleaning is looked upon by someas an industrial, very down-to-earth activity, not at all connected to common buzzwords like digitalisation. This couldnot be further from the truth. Cleaningis very much a complex business,which requires competence andknowledge across many boundaries. An increasing number of companies are adopting cloud technologyand implementing it in their businessmanagement...
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Bringing the tanks to the clouds
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In last year’s TCM spring edition, you may have read about a 25-year old university student from Sweden who said he had a potential solution to the issue of fraudulent European Cleaning Documents (ECDs). As I wrote in my last article, a paper-based certificate system can only offera certain level of security. Therefore, I developed a web-based tracking system that feeds information to all...
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Tackling a trio of troubles
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Cleaning tanks and vessels is achieved by a mixture of four elements: time, mechanical action, heat and chemical action. These four elements are illustrated in the accompanying pie charts, which showt he proportional contribution that each element makes to overall cleaning. The mechanical action element is effectively a function of how the cleaning fluid is delivered to the cleaning surface....
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