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The National Association of Interior Tank Cleaners (ANLIC) was established in Spain on the basis of articles agreed amongst five tank cleaning companies, the founding members of the association. At present, ANLIC counts 50 members located in the different autonomous regions of the Spanish mainland. In the near future, ANLIC’s management is looking for more tank cleaners to join the... association as active members. ANLIC is at the same time an active member of the European Federation of Tank Cleaning Organisations (EFTCO). In fact, ANLIC was one of its six founding members back in 1999 in Brussels. ANLIC participates actively in EFTCO’s meetings and organisation in the different European member locations. [read more]

The foundation of Lavados Peña goes back to the beginning of the 1960s, when Don Lorenzo Peña Martín abandoned the world of logistics to offer maintenance services to other’s transporters.There followed a period during which the company evolved from exterior washing, oil changes and lubrication to the present, where they have become a well-known washing station in terms... of technology and customer service, with machinery of the latest generation both for the external washing and internal vaporisation of cisterns and for the purification of their discharges. Lavados Peña always strives to carry out its business scrupulously, and with respect to the environment. [read more]

In April, Stolt Tank Containers (STC)officially opened the Fusion Stolt Tank Services (FSTS) depot in Laem Chabang, Thailand. STC’s global network of depots now consists of 20 facilities, each providing cleaning, maintenance, repair and storage services, complete with environmentally-friendly systems for water management and even,in some cases, power generation.Yet the question some ask is,... why?Why does the world’s largest provider of logistics and transportation services for door-to-door shipments of bulk liquid chemicals and food-grade products maintain its own worldwide network of owned and joint-venture depots? [read more]

Interior cleaning of transport, storageand production containers in the chemical industry can only take place efficiently in compliance with applicable standards and depending on individual conditions. Choosing the correct cleaning technology depends on the type of contamination, shape and size of container, available access options and any components in the container. Cleaning with automated... highpressureunits in particular is now morewidely used due to shorter production downtimes and related cost savings. [read more]

Nearly all deposits in tankers,containers, and tank wagons can be removed by high-pressure water. Conventional cleaning of containers and tanks of all types is in many cases very time consuming and the results are not always satisfactory. Automatic high-pressure cleaning therefore asserts itself more and more: A high-pressure plunger pump presses water through the nozzles of the URACA tank... cleaning head TWK with a pressure of up to 1,600 bar/23,200 psi. [read more]

The tank cleaning industry today are scrambling to identify the most important measurements they can use to ensure that tank containers get a good cleanand their organisations continue to grow. In fact, the industry has recently been having a lot of conversations about measuring the cleaning process.Certain customers are demanding process traceability.

Car- & Truckwash (CTW) is a respected Belgian partner for the tank cleaning industry, with more than 30 years of technical knowledge and experience alongside a wealth of successfully realised projects at home and abroad.CTW develops and implements tank cleaning facilities for the internal cleaning of silo/bulk, chemicals, food, container, railway carriage, and IBC and process / CIP cleaning.

The primary stated goal of any company is the welfare of its employees and the greater public. Of course it is. The company also needs to make money, satisfy shareholders, meet customer needs and be quick and efficient at what it does. That can sometimes put a lot ofpressure on the “stated” primary goal. Cynical? Yes. True? Probably.Tank cleaning, by necessity, requires operators to... work on top of tank containers to manipulate machinery and inspect the condition or content of the tank barrels. That means they are repeatedly accessing tank tops at 3.6 to 4.2 metres high. [read more]

Our home planet carries an unusual name, considering that 72% of its surface is not covered with soil but with water. However, only a tiny fraction of this huge amount, namely 0.3%, can directly be used as drinking water for humans. The lion’s share of 97% of the natural water reservoirs consist of salty seawater.It is one of the many reasons why the chemical industry and its service... providers are dedicated to keeping their environmental impact as low as possible, whilst adhering to the highest safety and quality requirements. [read more]