World Water Day

On Thursday, March 22nd we recognized World Water Day 2012.

So how did you celebrate or otherwise recognize this important event? Why do we even have to recognize water? Simply put, water is a limited resource. While over 75% of the earth is water, only 1% of that water is in a useable form. While not a diminishing resource, it is limited.


Water has unique properties: it can be used to heat or cool; it can be made into a gas (steam), or a solid form (ice). It can provide life, or in the event of pollution – death. We rely on it in many ways that we may never recognize.
At APTech Group, we deal with ways to conserve and reuse this valuable resource every day. Our products are designed to not only conserve water, but to do so in a safe, economical, and environmentally friendly manner.

We provide our dealer partners with many tools to assist them in finding the best solution for their customers. Here’s a tool that anyone can use to learn more about what they can do to help conserve this valuable resource.

Over 12% of the 7,000,000,000 earth population goes without safe drinking water on any given day. We are an active supporter of charity: water – an organization devoted exclusively to finding safe drinking water for those people that have none. Please join us to make a difference in this effort.

And have a great World Water Day!

Posted on behalf of Fred Lattin

Thoughts from the New Guy…

As one of the newest employees of
APTech Group, I find myself trying to understand everything from where to park my car each day at the office; to the acid/base reaction that makes our solid water treatment products possible.

It can be overwhelming being the newest person on staff. It took my 11 year old daughter to put everything I am doing back into perspective. A couple weeks ago, when I got home from work she greeted me with a big hug. She said she talked about me today at school. So I am assuming she was extolling my virtues about being a Dad. A Dad who understands family/ work balance. A Dad who rarely misses a soccer game or even a practice, demands family dinner time, and once a week family game night. Patting myself on the back a bit, I guess.

But none of that comes out of her mouth. “Dad, I am very proud of your company”. What? My Job? Okay, so she is going to say “your hard work pays for the things we have and the upcoming vacation to Disney”. I get it and that is very nice to appreciate the things we have.

What she actually says is “Dad, I talked about how your stuff in a jar (that's 11 year old speak for our innovative, sustainable, solid water treatment chemicals) can help the environment”. She explained to her class during a science discussion about the environment that my company can help reuse water, reduce pollution in the air and they (Dad’s company) even helps to drill wells in Africa for people who have no water.

I hope the teacher does not ask me to come in and explain the way a well is drilled! APTech Group does support charity: water with a donation for every case of product we sell, but there are no drill bits in the warehouse.

What everyone should be proud of is the commitment to the environment with each installation of APTech’s solid water treatment solution for cooling towers and boilers. To make a difference on this planet, it has to be a broad based effort making small behavior changes that, when performed collectively, can substantially decrease environmental impact.

If one company converts 1,000 tons of cooling to solid water treatment chemicals, it can reduce carbon dioxide levels equivalent to parking your car for 6 months. And, if everyone in America switched to solids it would be equivalent to taking 52,000 cars off the road.

I am very proud of what APTech Group is doing – as is my daughter evidently.

Posted on behalf of Marc Beller

Need for LEED Water Efficiency

According to National Geographic, 97% of water on the earth is saltwater. Another 2% is locked into polar ice caps and glaciers. That leaves just 1% for almost seven billion people to share.

Here in the US, fresh water concerns are becoming more widespread, affecting not just the Southwest and West, but rapidly developing areas like Charlotte and Nashville where once abundant water supplies are strained by rapid growth and development. Commercial and institutional buildings are major water users, so water efficiency measures for the built environment have a significant impact on our water issues.

The US Green Building Council’s LEED 2009 for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance green rating system emphasizes water efficiency as one of its five environmental categories. One LEED EB water efficiency credit is a “gimmee” for EnduroSolv® solid water treatment adopters: Cooling Tower Water Management – Chemical Management. Your EnduroSolv® expert can develop a water treatment plan for you to earn this credit that addresses chemical treatment, bleed-off, corrosion, scaling, bio-fouling, metering, controls and training.

EnduroSolv® solid chemicals offer a host of other environmental benefits that support other LEED certification credits, too. Please contact us to help you with LEED questions – we now have a LEED Accredited Professional on staff – and advice on other water-saving strategies for your cooling tower, boiler or closed-loop systems.

Posted on behalf of Lew Bonadies, LEED AP

March Madness!

This is such an exciting time of the year. Congratulations to all the teams that will play in the 2012 NCAA college tournament.

Everyone at APTech Group, and I mean everyone, knows I am a huge Indiana University Hoosier fan. I have struggled through 4 years of 20 loss seasons from a program that rarely ever missed the tournament and has 5 national championship banners. Why this year? In my opinion it is Cody Zeller deciding to not go play with his brother in North Carolina and stay in-state. His decision to play for the Hoosiers has been called a “Game Changer”. I believe it.


Speaking of “Game Changers”, I was travelling last week and I had one of our solid water treatment distributors tell me that the solids program is a Game Changer for his territory – especially when the audience are members of upper management. At this level, the customer will not ask about what the phosphonate package is or how much yellow metal protection is in the formula. They get excited when they hear these four benefits:

1) Solids can reduce the company’s risk and liability.
2) Solids can reduce the company’s carbon footprint.
3) Solids can help your company Go Green.
4) Solids can make a positive economic impact.

Call us if you need help “scoring” with these 4 points and we will help you put on a full court press. APTech’s solids are no longer the Cinderella story in the big dance.

We are the number one seed and can take you to the finals – whether you are a facility manager considering our solid alternative or one our distributors sharing the solid story with your customers.

Go Luck and Go Hoosiers… (And - go Cincinnti Bearcats! -Blog Editor)

Posted on behalf of Marc Beller

New App Available to Calculate Water Treatment Indices

Wouldn’t it be great be able to easily figure out a Langelier index at a customer site, while there in the field?

Well, we have recently become aware of a new, free mobile app that lets you calculate Langelier (LSI,) Ryznar (RSI) and Puckorius (PSI) indices right on your smart phone. The App was developed by a company called LXF Process Management Solutions, which develops specialized information management system software used in a variety of different industries.
At this point, the App is only available for the Android platform. However, if you go to the web page to download the App, you will also be presented with the opportunity to let LXF know that you use an iPhone or iPad. This survey would suggest that LXF has plans to develop the App for these devises as well, once there is sufficient demand. Let’s hope so…