Is There a Presentation We Can Give For You?

APTech Group, the manufacturer of the EnduroSolv® products, has a lot to offer to both water treatment providers and users. I have just returned from helping a distributor partner of ours give four presentations to four different audiences – all focused on the benefits of the solid water treatment products that we manufacture. The interesting aspect of this trip is that these four audiences each would have different and unique levels of interest in products like EnduroSolv®.

The first presentation was to a mechanical contractor who would manage a facility’s HVAC systems. This small group was well aware of the need to treat the water in the systems they manage but had only a passing familiarity with solid water treatment products. It would be common for a company like this to subcontract the water treatment services to a company much like our partner we were presenting with, so it was an excellent chance to educate them on the products. Hopefully, in the future, they will ask their subcontractors to provide solid water treatment at the facilities they oversee.

The next presentation was to a group of over 100 hospital facility managers and directors. This audience would manage and oversee all aspects of a hospital or healthcare facility. Our solid water treatment products would be very attractive to this group as many healthcare facilities are making decisions to have greener operation and to reduce the inventory of hazardous goods onsite.

On the second day of the presentation tour, we visited with a design and architecture firm that has an interest in what water treatment options are available so they can take them into account at the design phase. The firm must consider water treatment options based on the needs of the equipment and the demands of their clients. With this presentation we were able to educate the organization’s team members on an option that can free up space in a mechanical room and can alleviate some of the challenges associated with the delivery of water treatment products.

And finally, the last presentation was to a property management and operation group. This company is entrusted by building owners to ensure continued successful and optimum operation of their property. There were building managers from multiple properties attending this meeting and one of those buildings has already benefited from the success of the solid water treatment product. Combining a success story with our presentation really seemed to open the eyes of the decision makers in the room.

This grouping of four presentations highlights some of the the many constituencies who could benefit from solid water treatment alternatives. Whether you are a water treatment provider, an end-user customer or somehow affiliated in the service chain to treat commercial and industrial water treatment systems, APTech Group is available to provide education on the technology as needed. We have a talented staff that is able and willing to get out and talk and educate about our products. Feel free to contact us at info@endurosolv.com if this would be of interest to you or your organization.

Posted on behalf of Matt Horine

Can water treatment choices improve your Carbon Footprint?

Those of you who are familiar with the solid water treatment technologies developed by APTech Group know that there are many benefits to transitioning your boilers, cooling towers and closed loop systems to our advanced EnduroSolv® solid chemical solutions.

In addition to financial savings derived from utilizing EnduroSolv® solid water treatment, there are environmental factors and savings to consider. “Carbon Footprint” savings from switching from 55 gallon drums of liquid chemistry to EnduroSolv® solids are many and include:

• Fuel savings from reduced weight in freight delivery
• Plastic savings from reduced container size
• Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) savings from reduced power to produce NaOH)

Let’s consider a Cooling Tower on a 20 story office building with 500 tons refrigeration. The following would be the estimated annual liquid chemistry, used to treat the water:

• 6 - 55 gallon drums of scale/corrosion chemistry
• 2 - 55 gallon drums of micro biological chemistry
• 2 - 55 gallon drums of cleaners

In this example, the liquid chemistry is shipped 600 miles to the office building via trucks using diesel fuel.

For this office building, switching to EnduroSolv® solids would generate the following Carbon Dioxide (CO2) reductions, also known as Carbon Footprint savings:

Transport fuel savings - 422 lbs of CO2 per year
Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) savings - 888 lbs of CO2 per year
Plastic used reduced - 542 lbs of CO2 per year

Total Savings - 1,852 lbs of CO2 per year

Keep in mind that while your Carbon Footprint savings may not be a really big number, it is the combination effect of you and others adopting greener practices that will have a powerful multiplier effect. And with EnduroSolv® solids already in use in over 3,000 installations, that multiplier effect is already occurring.

APTech Group Announced as Finalist for 2011 Green Business Awards

APTech Group, Inc. – the manufacturer of EnduroSolv® solid water treatment - has been selected as one of the Cincinnati Business Courier’s 2011 Green Business Awards finalists in the Green Market Strategy category. (Other categories include: Green Design, Green Education/Outreach and Green Policy.)

The Cincinnati Business Courier, in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council Cincinnati Regional Chapter, created the Green Business Awards to honor and recognize people, companies and organizations that are demonstrating leadership in sustainable practices in a variety of facilities and projects.

APTech Group and the other Green Business Award finalists will be honored at an awards cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception on Thursday, March 3, 2011, at the Cintas Center at Xavier University in Cincinnati Ohio. At the reception, APTech will receive on-stage recognition and a Finalist Award. Once all of the Finalists have been recognized, the Courier will announce a winner in each of four categories.

Safe Shipping

Each day in the United States, people and companies ship millions of packages across the country and world. Of these shipments, there are more than 800,000 shipments of hazardous materials that are shipped in the United States every day. Hazardous materials are everywhere and are a fact of life. In one form or another they are in businesses and homes everywhere.

One place you can definitely find hazardous chemicals are located in the equipment rooms that treat the water in cooling towers and boilers. These water treatment chemicals that normally come in 30 and 55 gallon drums in liquid form pose many risks, particularly when it comes to shipping them. They may leave the vendors facility perfectly fine, but once on the truck a number of things could happen. They could tip over and spill, they could be punctured by a forklift or the trucking company hauling the drums could be involved in an accident causing a spill of these chemicals and causing safety issues for many people.

Using the EnduroSolv® brand of cooling tower and boiler treatment can easily avoid any of these negative things from occurring. EnduroSolv® solid water treatment comes packaged in one gallon recyclable bottles. A case of four bottles would replace that 55 gallon drum that is being shipped. Since these products are in a solid from, the elimination of any spills would now be avoided. Wouldn’t you like the peace of mind knowing that the products you are using will arrive at your facility safe? And not cause harm to the populace while in transit?

Take a look at your water treatment program and all of the drums you may have and the potential problems that may occur either during shipment of them to your facility or even when they are on-site. If you would you like to avoid the chance of costly spills or accidents then check out EnduroSolv.com for more information and to find an EnduroSolv® water treater/distributor near you.

Posted on behalf of Todd Lee

The Before and After Photo Game

Many of us are familiar with “Photo Hunt”, the popular touch screen game found in many bars across the country. The object of the game is to find the differences in two seemingly identical photos. Let’s take a look at two photos of the same mechanical room – the photo on the left shows the mechanical room before EnduroSolv® solid water treatment was implemented. The photo on the right shows the same room after transitioning to EnduroSolv® products. Can you find some of the differences in the photos below?


Here are several differences that we noticed:

• Floor space – EnduroSolv® products conserve floor space. Five cases of EnduroSolv® solid water treatment products take up the same footprint as just ONE 55-gallon drum.
• Containment area – Since there are no liquids to spill with EnduroSolv®, no containment or special storage area is needed.
• Caution signs/Eyewash areas – since there is no threat of a chemical spill with EnduroSolv®, there is no need for special safety stations that are required with liquid chemicals.
• Neater mechanical room – overall neater and safer work area

Now for the things the photos don’t show… With EnduroSolv® solid water treatment solutions:

• There are no offensive odors or fumes
• Shipping and handling costs are significantly lower
• There are no drum disposal issues. EnduroSolv® products are consumed 100% onsite and come in a recyclable plastic jug
• Risk and liability issues are significantly reduced

Try playing Photo Hunt with your mechanical room… Look at the area as it is configured now and then imagine it with EnduroSolv® products being utilized. Is the area you are imagining a much neater, safer and overall nicer work space? If you like what you see in your mind, contact us to discuss all the advantages of an EnduroSolv® solid water treatment program.

Posted on behalf of Kathleen Collier

Big Moves Ahead for APTech Group

Having just attended our Board of Director’s meeting this past week, I’m thankful for the team we have assembled and the forward thinking progress we have made-not only in the financial areas of our organization but in the environmental area as well. After some intense discussions throughout the past few months involving a doubling of production capacity by plant expansion and subsequent move, it was decided that this was the correct path to take.

When the meeting was over, one of the initial dissenters of the move came up to me and without reservation, began to discuss the move and how we could make the new facility greener by incorporating the use of “grey” water for plant operations (water that would previously been sent to sewer can be diverted for re-use). Our chemical water treatment industry needs more vision like this as we go forward. We will all reap the financial and environmental benefits and rewards as a result.

Posted on behalf of Jim Heimert

New Year’s Resolutions

A recent survey by Yahoo! News revealed that the most popular New Year’s resolution for 2011 is to lose weight. So, let’s make that the same resolution for your cooling tower and boiler water treatment programs … LOSE WEIGHT!!

How can this be done?? It is simple … switch to solid, concentrated water treatment products, such as EnduroSolv®. These solid products have had the excess water removed and the equivalent treatment that comes from a 500 pound, 55 gallon drum is contained in four one gallon bottles weighing approximately 50 pounds. If only it was that simple to lose those extra pounds around the waistline.

The actual treatment of the water using the solid products is achieved through the same chemistry that is common to the cooling and boiler water treatment industry. Basically the way the water is treated has remained the same … there is now just no reason to carry around the extra pounds.

There are many benefits to losing this weight. Use of the EnduroSolv® or similar products provides a much cleaner and neater space. There are fewer hassles handling the water treatment products. This includes reducing the risk of injuries. And lastly, it is cheaper to ship and deliver the solid water treatment products due to handling less total poundage. Coincidentally the third item on the Yahoo! News survey of New Year’s resolutions is to save money.

Let us know it you’d like to make one of your New Year’s resolutions losing weight … er … switching to EnduroSolv® solid cooling tower and boiler treatment products.

Posted on behalf of Matt Horine