Better Handle Your Material

Of all the things that are exciting this spring with APTech Group and EnduroSolv®, one of the most exciting are the prospects of moving into our new facility later this year. Late in 2010 we made the decision that the time was right to expand our operation. The focal point of this is a new facility, only several miles from our existing facility, which will double the square footage of our plant and in my opinion, will more than double our manufacturing capacity and product output.

We have taken much time during the last six months and worked with multiple consultants to analyze the process and procedures at the current APTech facility. From our own internal studies and conclusions, along with those of the consultants, we believe we have been able to streamline our processes and procedures to further enable us to better produce the best solid water treatment for cooling towers and boilers on the market, including the EnduroSolv® product line.

Many of the conclusions that we came to centered on how we handled and placed material in our current facility. It didn’t take too long for us to recognize how to implement the improvements at our new facility. We discovered there was too much double handling and lost time and productivity in just this handling and movement of the material through our facility. The new plant is being laid out in manner where we will be able to better handle material and better utilize our personnel’s time to produce better product as opposed to just moving it through the plant.

This can be analogous to the handling of water treatment in a facility. Whether you are a water treater or end-use customer of water treatment, there is a finite time that can be dedicated to the water treatment program. If you are a water treater, you may only have an hour a week or month at a customer or if you are an end-use customer, you only have so many man hours in a day to allocate to all of the tasks that need to be completed. In either case, why waste a portion of this finite time to handling the water treatment products that your facility needs?

By employing a treatment program that utilizes the solid chemistry water treatment products you can eliminate the excess handling required for liquid products. What is the benefit and bottom line of this advantage? If you are a water treater you can spend a greater portion of your time adding services that have value to your customer. And if you are the end-user you can utilize your employees’ time to better benefit your facility as a whole.

As we move into this summer we are looking forward to capitalizing on the new facility with a more efficient use of our resources. Give us a call and we can get you on your way to better utilizing your resources right away.

Posted on behalf of Matt Horine