HAPPY LEAP DAY!!!

Time… such a valuable resource and something
we all have. Problem is, if not used wisely, it is something that we can never get back. Lucky for us about every four years in February, we are gifted an extra day – February 29th or Leap Day. An extra 24 hours of time!! Are you going to use it wisely?

As many facility managers know, time is becoming more and more valuable. With shrinking budgets and staff reductions, the pressure to do more with less is increasingly more important. One of the ways facility managers can use their “extra” 24 hours wisely is to consider an EnduroSolv® solid water treatment program for their boilers and cooling towers. With one case of EnduroSolv® solid water treatment containing the same amount of chemical treatment as one 55-gallon drum, it is obvious that EnduroSolv® has many benefits including time savings.

Imagine the time it takes to get one 55-gallon drum to the mechanical room… ugh – lots of time and lots of potential for accidents. Now imagine carrying one 44 pound case to the mechanical room. A big difference – a lot quicker, a lot safer and no hand truck required!

Take a moment to look over all the benefits of EnduroSolv® here or contact us. We would be happy to discuss all the benefits of EnduroSolv® solid water treatment products with you.

Finally, on this Leap Day, I wanted to share something that gives a little perspective on the value of time. There are many renditions of this but I think this hits home to all. Have a happy and productive Leap Day!

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the Value of ONE DAY, ask the person born on February 29th.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the friends waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who just missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Posted on behalf of Kathleen Collier

APTech Turns 10!

2012 marks APTech Group’s 10 Year Anniversary
manufacturing EnduroSolv sustainable solid water treatment products. So, we are not the New Kids on the Block.

But, even though we have been manufacturing for a decade – and growing substantially in recent years – there are STILL many people out there who don’t yet fully understand the benefits of EnduroSolv solid water treatment.

We have solid products in many
forms, for all water types, including bottles, discs, sticks and pucks that can treat all of your Cooling Tower, Boiler and Closed Loop System needs.

If you are looking to improve the way you are treating the water in your facilities, please let us know and we can get you in contact with an EnduroSolv dealer in your area! Here’s to 10 more years of growth…

Posted on behalf of Todd Lee

Solid Laundry Detergents Mirror Water Treatment Dynamics

An interesting article in Chemical & Engineering News a few weeks ago reported on the detergent industry re-introducing Dry Concentrated Laundry Chemicals. The Concentrate technology has been around for at least 50 years (for those of us old enough, remember Salvo Tablets), but never caught on in a big way. Consumers have been resistant to change and have continued to use liquids or dry soap with added filler. The article went on to add that when using liquids or dry (powder) soap, most consumers added more than was needed, which is not only a waste of money, but an added environmental concern.

Much of the same apprehension affects the water treatment industry. Comments about liquid water treatment chemicals such as “been doing the liquids for years, a little more is always better” are still prevalent.

Perhaps the pending introduction of these new single serve solid laundry products is a signal that the time has finally come to take a step back and re-examine the way we think. The world is a different place and no matter how much we pine for the good old days, those days were wasteful in many ways. Today we’re more concerned about economics, but also about making life better and cleaner for our kids and generations to come. We at APTech Group believe Solid Technology for water treatment chemicals to be the absolute best fit in addressing both of these desires & needs of our new world.

Posted on behalf of Jim Heimert

Extending Our "Reach the Rep “ Program

In a January Blog, Jim Heimert discussed the need to educate more of our distributors' representatives on the benefits their customers will receive when making the change from a liquid water treatment program to one utilizing the same state of the art chemical technology in a safer, easier, more environmentally responsible form: EnduroSolv® Solids.

Expanding on this program, we have substantially increased our involvement and participation in many of the leading Facility Management organizations - such as ASHRE, ASHE, IFTMA, and BOMA to name a few. Our goal is to help our distributors carry the EnduroSolv® message through industry meetings, trade shows, lunch-and-learns, and the like.

By directly interacting with those managers that will gain the most by changing to a solid based water treatment program we anticipate substantially shortening the selling cycle through awareness.

Do you have an organization that you are actively involved in, and think we should be as well. Why not reach-out to us and let us know? We are always learning as well.

Posted on behalf of Fred Lattin

A Change for the Better

Starting today and lasting through the weekend APTechGroup is converting our email system from a pop mail server that we have subscribed to online for the past seven or eight years to a hosted exchange server. We are working with our IT vendor, PROOnCall, to complete this conversion. We made the decision to make the move to the hosted exchange because all of the benefits involved will be of great benefit to us. The pop server did its job and delivered us our email reliably and efficiently but there were just too many features that weren't available. The feature that I think will be most helpful is the shared calendar. As we have gotten busier and our staff has grown, being able to coordinate everyone's schedule and the company's events will be more critical to ensure that we take care of everything that needs to be handled.

Making this conversion today is taking a little bit of upfront effort and preparation. I'm sure it could be viewed as a hassle in the short term but everyone knows the long term benefits totally outweigh any minor hassles. Once the system is in place it will greatly simplify some of our day to day tasks.

I think this could be analogous to changing your water treatment program from liquid products to solid water treatment products like EnduroSOLV. There are certainly some extra considerations needed when implementing the solid products but as is the case with the exchange server, the long term benefits totally outweigh any perceived short term hassles. So, if you are considering making the change to solid cooling tower and boiler products and some of the hassles in the short term seem daunting just remember that the long term benefits far outweigh those concerns.