10 BULKDISTRIBUTOR
Cleaning & Repair
July/August 2016
Imperial
expands Krems
cleaning capacity
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mperial Chemical Transport GmbH has opened a third
cleaning bay at its facility in Krems an der Donau
(Lower Austria).
Following the addition of the new bay, Imperial said it is not only
able to clean tankers and tank containers there, but also silo vehicles
and tipper trucks. Special features include automated cleaning for
dispersions and synthetic resins by machine, where the water and
cleaning agents are recycled; this provides major improvements to
the interior cleaning process and reduces water consumption and
manual cleaning work.
When removing any chemical residue with water pressure of 8 bar
and a temperature of up to 90°C, only certified, environmentally
friendly cleaning agents are used. By using special mixtures of water
and cleaning agents, the recycling system can handle as many as 80
procedures before the elements need to be replaced. This is possible
because the cleaning mixture, which is fed into the tank at the top,
is collected at the bottom, pre-filtered, reheated and then used again
for further cleaning procedures. The waste water is then processed in
line with the latest technology and the remains of products are
disposed of in the proper manner.
The address of the facility is:
Imperial Chemical Transport GmbH,
Hafenstr. 77, 3500 Krems, Austria
www.imperial-international.com
Customers should always be updated and communicated with the real time status of their tanks
The soft side of cleaning
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SO tank depots are going through rapid technological
evolution and many robotic or automatic cleaning machines
are being introduced to the industry.
Though the new machines address many problems like speed,
quality, efficiency, confined spaces, etc, there is still a dearth of
software that is intuitive, comprehensive, easy-to-use, low cost,
highly available, and, at the same time, gives real time access to
customer specific data. Communication is the key. Customers
should always be updated and communicated with the real time
status of their tanks.
While good software should address the operations and financial
workflows of a depot, it should also help the employees put their
focus back on operations and tasks, rather than spending time on
loosely built software, fixing bugs or issues to make sure it runs.
There are definitely areas in a depot which are near to impossible
to be track. They contribute to a major part of the revenue loss and
for any business, money saved is money earned. One typical
example is revenue leaks. Most of the material requisition
transactions are not tracked in the depot. It can be nigh-on
impossible to know if it is used in the cleaning station, or overly
requisitioned or returned to inventory. The software is needed to
track this, right from material indent to reverse logistics.
It is also very important to understand the security aspects of the
software and its access; server level, operating system level,
software level, user level (role-based access control), etc, and bring
in all the design policies to develop a robust and foolproof system.
The software should protect itself from any kind of external hacking
and lateral data stealing, be it locally hosted or set up as a cloud.
With this understanding of application development and depot
operations, Needa Software Solutions developed tailor-made
software for depots, covering the supply chain to regular operations
to reporting.
With Supply Chain as the crux of the software, it seamlessly
integrates with other modules like Banking and Financials,
Customers, Suppliers and Inventory. The tailor-made modules like
Tank-In, Cleaning, Periodic Test, Repair Estimates, Tank-Out and
Miscellaneous are integrated with general ERP modules.
The company aims to collaborate to get the best out of a
partnership. It works with the depots to understand their needs in
detail and customise the software to make it individually tailored to
their requirements. With return-on-investment in less than three
months and because of simple screens and ease of use, Needa says
it has successfully addressed the main problem in the depots:
employee resistance.
Satisfied customers include S-O Tank Cleaning Terminal, Thailand,
and Oceanglobe Container Services, India, which are successfully
using the software and recommending it to their counterparts.
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Quality buys
Isotank
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SA-based Quality Distribution, Inc, has entered the UK
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Isotank, led by Colin Garnett, is a leading UK intermodal tank
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Headquartered in Redcar, UK, Isotank was established over 30 years
ago and employs more than 270 staff.
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services in the coming years as we grow internationally.”
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intermodal tank container and depot services through Boasso
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