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Waterfall in the forest.

Our Green Approach To Cleaning Can Help You Meet Your Environmental Targets

Water:

CLEAN AS NEW® uses Tech Sonic’s Green Technology, automated hydroblasting and proprietary water treatment and recycling system to establish a new level of environmental responsibility.

Our process uses 95% less water in cleaning heat exchangers and parts at our facilities, and up to 75% less water when done on your wash pad.

This saves millions of gallons of water in a typical turnaround, and every gallon of water saved is one less gallon of wastewater generated.

Energy:

By providing our clients with heat exchangers and parts that are cleaned to "like new" performance levels, our clients save energy because of better heat transfer and lower liquid pumping costs. Saving energy means their process is more efficient.

A modern, illuminated refinery is visible at dusk.

  Implementation Of New Green Technology

Switching to CLEAN AS NEW® is a demonstration of your commitment to environmental sustainability.

By adopting a better cleaning process, plants can not only save $100’s M USD in energy costs but can simultaneously claim the benefits of a lower carbon footprint. Our modeling suggests that a mid-sized refinery could reduce its GHG emissions by over 250,000 tons - a reduction of between 10-15%.

An added benefit is water savings. Because we use 75% less high-pressure rinsing and recirculate the water we do use, removing the waste, our process reduces the total water consumption by over 95%. A typical heat exchanger, with all associated components, can use over 500,000 gallons of water to clean with hydroblasting alone, but in our facility, we have reduced that to less than 5000 gallons. For a medium-sized refinery, that could be a savings of over 100 million gallons of water per year - and that means 100 million gallons less wastewater to be treated. 

Investing In Research

At a time when the petrochemical industry is seen as the enemy by many concerned about the environmental impacts of fossil fuels, investing in CLEAN AS NEW®’s technology provides not only evidence of your plant’s commitment to sustainability, but the incredible savings make it easier to spend more on research to drive further improvements that help navigate the coming energy transition.

Two women, cleaning together in public park, saving the environment.

Our Employees Are Our Partners

In an increasingly gig-economy, we are taking a different approach.

The Tech Sonic group of companies provides all our employees with stable, reliable income and encourages investment in the company by our employees through various company-supported programs. Within all our companies, 100% of employees are owners and benefit directly from the business's success.

Our employees work hard because it’s their company, and we encourage them to balance that with life outside work and provide a work environment that encourages innovation, engagement and fun.

Control room workers and shift leader.

A Safe Work Environment Begins From The Ground Up

Our process and our entire facility have been built around safety. You can see it in our facility design and our processes. We have taken safety to the max, engineering out the risk to both our workers and your equipment.

Our processes all involve steps to ensure that safety is a priority on every job.

In Tech Sonic’s 10 year history of providing ultrasonic cleaning services, there has never been a recordable incident, nor has there ever been a reportable environmental event. Our goal at CLEAN AS NEW® is to even better that record!

The CHWMEG Facility Review Program (FRP)

CHWMEG Facility Review

CLEAN AS NEW® is proud to support CHWMEG, a non-profit association globally promoting responsible waste stewardship.

As a part of our support of the program, we have completed a facility review under the 2020 CHWMEG Facility Review Program.

For more information, https://chwmeg.org/index.asp.

Waterfall in the forest.

Our Green Approach To Cleaning Can Help You Meet Your Environmental Targets

Water:

CLEAN AS NEW® uses Tech Sonic’s Green Technology, automated hydroblasting and proprietary water treatment and recycling system to establish a new level of environmental responsibility.

Our process uses 95% less water in cleaning heat exchangers and parts at our facilities, and up to 75% less water when done on your wash pad.

This saves millions of gallons of water in a typical turnaround, and every gallon of water saved is one less gallon of wastewater generated.

Energy:

By providing our clients with heat exchangers and parts that are cleaned to "like new" performance levels, our clients save energy because of better heat transfer and lower liquid pumping costs. Saving energy means their process is more efficient.

A modern, illuminated refinery is visible at dusk.

  Implementation Of New Green Technology

Switching to CLEAN AS NEW® is a demonstration of your commitment to environmental sustainability.

By adopting a better cleaning process, plants can not only save $100’s M USD in energy costs but can simultaneously claim the benefits of a lower carbon footprint. Our modeling suggests that a mid-sized refinery could reduce its GHG emissions by over 250,000 tons - a reduction of between 10-15%.

An added benefit is water savings. Because we use 75% less high-pressure rinsing and recirculate the water we do use, removing the waste, our process reduces the total water consumption by over 95%. A typical heat exchanger, with all associated components, can use over 500,000 gallons of water to clean with hydroblasting alone, but in our facility, we have reduced that to less than 5000 gallons. For a medium-sized refinery, that could be a savings of over 100 million gallons of water per year - and that means 100 million gallons less wastewater to be treated. 

Investing In Research

At a time when the petrochemical industry is seen as the enemy by many concerned about the environmental impacts of fossil fuels, investing in CLEAN AS NEW®’s technology provides not only evidence of your plant’s commitment to sustainability, but the incredible savings make it easier to spend more on research to drive further improvements that help navigate the coming energy transition.

Two women, cleaning together in public park, saving the environment.

Our Employees Are Our Partners

In an increasingly gig-economy, we are taking a different approach.

The Tech Sonic group of companies provides all our employees with stable, reliable income and encourages investment in the company by our employees through various company-supported programs. Within all our companies, 100% of employees are owners and benefit directly from the business's success.

Our employees work hard because it’s their company, and we encourage them to balance that with life outside work and provide a work environment that encourages innovation, engagement and fun.

Control room workers and shift leader.

A Safe Work Environment Begins From The Ground Up

Our process and our entire facility have been built around safety. You can see it in our facility design and our processes. We have taken safety to the max, engineering out the risk to both our workers and your equipment.

Our processes all involve steps to ensure that safety is a priority on every job.

In Tech Sonic’s 10 year history of providing ultrasonic cleaning services, there has never been a recordable incident, nor has there ever been a reportable environmental event. Our goal at CLEAN AS NEW® is to even better that record!

The CHWMEG Facility Review Program (FRP)

CHWMEG Facility Review

CLEAN AS NEW® is proud to support CHWMEG, a non-profit association globally promoting responsible waste stewardship.

As a part of our support of the program, we have completed a facility review under the 2020 CHWMEG Facility Review Program.

For more information, https://chwmeg.org/index.asp.