Giving Thanks

It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving, along with
my family traditions – including: the Thanksgiving Day race, visiting with family and friends, food and football – have come and gone! This year, prompted by the holiday special, “This is America, Charlie Brown,” my daughters and I reflected on the Pilgrims’ decision to leave their homes in search of a new and better life. The girls took away the life lesson that trying something new is not always easy, but with hard work and dedication has the possibility of being very rewarding.

Interestingly, this life lesson is very applicable in regards to water treatment for cooling towers and boilers as well. EnduroSolv® Solid Water Treatment, while having been around for some time (about 10 years now), is still a new idea to some end-users and facilities managers. Changing the way someone thinks about water treatment is sometimes difficult. Imagine a product that is not only economical and safer to use than traditional water treatment but also one that is better for the environment and works just as well as the dangerous liquid alternatives. That product is EnduroSolv®.

History tells us that change is not always an easy thing, but for water treatment, a change to Endurosolv® is a rewarding one worth considering.

Posted on behalf of Todd Lee

No Surprises!

By now, most of our customers have fired up their steam boilers for another winter season. Whether your season is seasonal, or year-around operation you rely on consistent operation of this key piece of equipment. Next summer, most will be preparing these boilers for their annual inspection. What we all want to see is a nice clean boiler internals with a gun-barrel metal surface (no deposits), and protected from pitting (oxygen pitting).

There are a few simple steps to insure you have a successful boiler operating season – with No Nasty Surprises.

1. Make sure your softeners are operating properly and always providing soft water for makeup.
2. Keep plenty of oxygen scavenger (typically sulfite) in your boiler – particularly when that boiler is not the lead boiler.
3. Follow your water treatment professional’s advice on proper chemical levels in the boilers and in the steam distribution system.
4. If you haven’t had your boiler tuned up within the last year, get it done now. This will insure maximum fireside efficiency.

Follow these simple steps, and you’ll maintain maximum efficiency (lowest operating cost), reliable steam production – and NO SURPRISES when you open the boiler for inspection.

Posted on behalf of Fred Lattin

Always Rethinking What We Do

As we sit here six weeks or so from the beginning of the new year it becomes a time to reflect on what we have been doing and how that relates to what we do in the coming year. This is applicable at so many levels ... at an individual level, either personally or professionally, all the way up to all the different levels of the largest corporations. And we certainly do this as a business in all aspects of our operation. It can range from the day to day things such as how we handle an order and prepare it as efficiently and effectively as possible to taking a look at the types of products and services we offer.

In the coming weeks we will be seeing demos for software packages that could improve our operation and efficiencies when implemented correctly. The implementation would be a big undertaking but it would be for the purpose of moving forward and improvement as a company. Then just yesterday we spent several hours meeting with one of our equipment partners, Hydro Systems Company, about the possibilities of developing a piece of equipment that could enhance a series of our products. In both instances we know what we do or have currently can work but we certainly think each can be better.

These are the types of activities we have to undertake to make sure, as an organization, we are always doing things to keep us moving forward. And these are just a couple examples of many things we will will consider as we finish up this year and gear up for 2012.

If you are viewing this blog as a customer and end user of water treatment products, such as those for cooling towers and boilers, consider EnduroSOLV as one possible solution for making what you do better and moving it forward. Yes, what you have currently can work but we certainly think EnduroSOLV can make it better.

EnduroSolv® -- A Great Choice for Schools

Last week, I motored down I-75 to Lexington to attend the Kentucky School Plant Manager Association Meeting (KSPMA). It was another opportunity to share the benefits of the EnduroSolv® solid water treatment alternative to facility managers of Kentucky’s K-12 schools. A colleague from AquaPhase, our EnduroSolv® distributor in Tennessee and Kentucky helped me staff our booth.


As is the case more and more often these days, the response to our technology and product offering was overwhelming. Facility managers and others commented about how much sense our products made for their cooling towers and boilers. In addition to reduced shipping costs and hassles, KSPMA attendees appreciated the safety and sustainability advantages of EnduroSolv® products over traditional caustic liquid chemicals.

As a result of our success at the KSPMA show, AquaPhase will be working to transition a number of school districts to the EnduroSolv® solution in the coming months. If you would like to join these forward thinking facility managers or would like to learn more about EnduroSolv® solid water treatment solutions, please visit www.endurosolv.com.

Happy 10th Birthday, iPod!!

Ten years ago this week, loyal Apple followers waited anxiously for Steve Job’s anticipated announcement… what new, cool and innovative product was Apple going to release next? Much to the dismay of many Apple loyalists, it was the iPod… What??

You see, at the time, there were already many mp3 players in the marketplace that did the same thing. They played music that you downloaded and they were portable. What was Steve Jobs thinking? In the opinion of many, the iPod was “not revolutionary”, “a bad fit”, and “without a future”.

Needless to say, 10 years later, the iPod continues to hold about 76% of the portable music player market share. Although there were already products out there that performed the same task, Jobs new that a product that was smaller, easier to use and nicer to look at would appeal to many. He, of course, was right.

Now in the water treatment world, liquid chemical products already exist that prevent scale and corrosion in boilers and cooling towers. These products do the job they were made to do. However, there is another way, one that is also appealing to many - the EnduroSolv® line of solid water treatment products. Because EnduroSolv® products contain the same proven chemistry as liquids, EnduroSolv® products also prevent scale and corrosion. However, EnduroSolv® products are significantly cheaper to ship and are safer to use and transport. Much like the iPod is to portable music players, EnduroSolv® products also have a smaller footprint, are easier to use, and make for a much cleaner and “sleeker” mechanical room when compared to the traditional 55-gallon drum of liquids. And, like iPods, EnduroSolv® solid water treatment products have been available for over ten years. So the technology is more than proven – with over 3,000 installations worldwide.

To learn more about EnduroSolv® solid water treatment solutions, please visit www.endurosolv.com.

Posted on behalf of Kathleen Collier

Simplicity!

In a previous blog, we mentioned that APTech Group recently held our Grand Opening Open House for our new manufacturing facility. It was a great evening and very well-attended! We had many people visit from all sorts of professional backgrounds. Once again, comments from the good majority of the people talking about EnduroSolv solid water treatment after comparing it to a 55 gallon drum were “this seems so simple, why doesn’t everyone use it”?!

I wish I knew the answer to that question! One thing is for sure, the acceptance of EnduroSolv Solid Water Treatment products continues to increase! With all of the benefits that come with using the EnduroSolv solid water treatment line, including no heavy drums to move, eliminating spills, no pails of chemicals to move, no drum disposal issues or no on site storage issues! If any of these benefits appeal to you, now would be a good time to see how EnduroSolv can make your water treatment needs simpler! Let us know and we can get you in touch with a distributor/partner in your area.

Posted on behalf of Todd Lee

APTech Open House

On Thursday, October 6, 2011, we hosted our Grand Opening Open House, an event celebrating our relocation to our new manufacturing facilities, in June, which significantly increases our production capabilities and provides room for growth in coming years.

As part of those festivities, we invited our 2010 EnduroSolv Dealer of the Year, Chad Brown of Water Treatment Services, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas to join us. During a dinner meeting this week, I asked Chad what he attributed his company’s rapid growth with EnduroSolv solid water treatment chemicals.

Chad told me that there are two key components to his firm's successes:

1. He sells only solids, so he isn’t competing with a liquid product line.
2. When he introduces solids to a Prospect, he tells them that solid water treatment products are the new way to safely handle and distribute water treatment chemicals, and liquids are the old way!

Imagine that – why would anyone not want to move on to something that is safer, easier to handle and more environmentally friendly?

Posted on behalf of Fred Lattin