Friday, August 27, 2010

Considerations for Choosing a Responsible Water Treater

Picking a water treatment product line for your facility ought to be easy – “I want something Greener, Safer and more Environmentally friendly for my boilers and cooling towers”. That is why we created EnduroSolv solids.

Picking a company to partner with seems to be more of a challenge. What should you expect from your Water Treatment Consultant? How important is cost? How can this company help me do a better job of protecting my equipment, improving my energy efficiency, training my staff, problem solving– while effectively communicating with our company and our staff?

Sometimes we take the easy approach – which company can provide me water treatment products and services at the lowest cost? Not bad on the money saving approach, but how much are you really going to save? In most facilities water treatment costs represent 0.5% to 2.0% of their Operating Budget. If you could magically cut that in half – and get all the things you really expect from your partner – what would you really save – 0.25-1.0% of your budget.

A substantial part of the growth and success we are realizing is a direct result of the outstanding Partner network we have with over 150 distributors covering North and South America from Alaska and Canada, to Brazil and Argentina; from the Far East to Europe. These are the companies that can provide you the real savings in Operating Costs and do it with EnduroSolv products that provide all of the things you are really looking for.

To find a distributor near you, just click on the contact page on the EnduroSolv site and we will provide you with a qualified Water Consultant that not only provide responsible water treatment products and service, but can help be part of increasing your profits, not your costs.

Posted on Behalf of Fred Lattin

Friday, August 20, 2010

Ruminations from the CEO

We are extremely fortunate to manufacture a product that is increasing in acceptance, during these tough economic times. While other manufacturing sectors struggle for survival, we are experiencing a huge demand for our EnduroSolv™ technology and have seen production increase by over 30% this year. As a result, we have hired new plant personnel and staff people to keep up with this demand.

How is this happening? We’re offering a concept that is heads above existing technology when addressing safety, lowering the carbon footprint, and reducing worker exposure to corrosive chemicals now being used in the water treatment industry. Simply stated, we have taken existing technology, and produced it into a Solid Encapsulated form which makes it easier, safer, and greener to use-all without compromising performance. Coincidently, the industries that are especially interested in our technology are those that are still maintaining – and in some cases, growing their economic posture: Healthcare, Education, Food, and Government (facilities and buildings).

One lesson we are learning as we observe some of the down sectors of our economy is to never grow complacent in what we are doing. We always need to look for better ways to do things and make those available to our partners. Some of these projects include: more accurate dissolving and dosing equipment, more biodegradable products, implementing additional manufacturing efficiencies and better ways to communicate our successes with potential users of our technology.

Posted on behalf of Jim Heimert, CEO of APTech Group, manufacturer of EnduroSolv solid water treatment solutions

Monday, August 16, 2010

Hittin’ The Road

Well, I am at the end of a long week of travel where I have been busy spreading the word about solid water treatment and EnduroSolv. My travels have taken me from Texas to Toronto … so if you know of anyone with cooling tower water or boiler water treatment needs in those areas, I can get you in touch with the right company.

It has been very interesting and enlightening to discuss with people how they personally or their water treatment company receive the solid water treatment products. I have talked with companies where these products range from 5% of their business to a company where it is 90% of their water treatment business. I would say this kind of range of reception is common … so while we are seeing much success and growth of the acceptance of our products in the market, we still have lots of work to do.

As I write this as I wait to head to the airport in Toronto, I am amazed at how big of a metro area this is. Driving around I see all of the different types of target markets that our products have a perfect fit for… hospitals, commercial buildings, schools and there is lots of industry. And I have noticed driving around the sprawl of the GTA (Greater Toronto Area), is that there is quite a fair amount of new construction compared to what I see at home in Cincinnati. Along one stretch of highway as we headed away from the airport, I saw what must have been at least a dozen high rise condos being built. Think those might have some cooling towers on the roof? I know people don’t want to lug those pails and drums of liquids through that high dollar real estate to the mechanical room on the top floor.

That’s about it … I need to pack up the suitcase and get on home. I have really enjoyed my trips across North America and am proud to see how our work has helped our products gain acceptance in both the US and Canada. I look forward to the next chance to get out and talk about EnduroSolv and solid water treatment.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A few thoughts from the “new guy” at APTech Group …

I am looking forward to getting out on the road later this month and in September, to visit several of our dealer partners. I have trips planned to Texas, Tennessee, New York and Minnesota. In addition to meeting with several distributor team members, I will have the opportunity to visit sites where our environmentally friendly EnduroSolv solid chemistry systems are installed. Can’t wait to see those organized, clean installations – with no 55 gallon drums in sight!

One of my responsibilities is to reach out to organizations who could benefit from switching to EnduroSolv solids (which, let’s face it is nearly everyone –hospitals, universities/schools, factories, office buildings, etc.). I have two observations to make about this process.

1. While no one likes to have their day interrupted with a phone call, people are universally pleasant, in a business-like manner, and;
2. Even if they aren’t interested in pursuing a relationship currently, they are all impressed with the simplicity of the sustainable, cost saving safe approach that the EnduroSolv system employs.

It sure makes the “prospecting” process more interesting – and almost fun…