Case Histories
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Biodiesel
CO2 Liquefaction
Food Industry
Fuel Distribution
Injection Molding
Metal Machining
Mining & Heavy Equipment
Packaging Plants
Power Plants
Railroad
Specialty Industries
Steel
Tank Truck Wash
Tube Mill
Washing Metal Parts
Biodiesel Plant Saves Money with Custom Oil Skimming Solution
Oil and water don’t mix; efficiency and profits often do. While the oil and water adage is well kn…
How this Polyvinyl Resin Plant Turned Costly Discharge into Profit
A polyvinyl chloride resins plant discharges oil into its wastewater. The oil, which is used in the poly…
Rohm & Haas Chemical Plant
The biggest challenge confronting Rohm & Haas Corp. in building a wastewater plant for its chemical facility in Elma, WA, was meeting Washi…
White Oil Producer Adds Oil Skimmers to Boost Performance of API
In the mid- to late 1800s, the mid-western region of the United States emerged as the epicenter of…
Oil Water Separator Improves Hydraulic Oil Recovery Process
Oil Skimmers, Inc. helps customer transform an expensive, time-consuming, and foul-smelling pr…
Food Processor Saves Money With Oil Skimmer
Packaged-food producers frequently use and then must discard large batches of cooking oil used in…
Poultry Plant Brought Into Compliance with Oil Skimmer
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources has issued Orders that set new string…
Food Plant Eliminates Downtime with a Grease Skimming Solution
Doskocil Food Service Company, a division of Foodbrands America, Hutchinson, Kan., produce…
Food Producer Profits from Recovered Waste Oil
Oil Skimmers Inc. units continuously draw the oil-covered tubing up and out of the water, through…
Mobile Oil Skimmer at Potato Chip Plant
A privately held snack-food manufacturer in the Midwest expected to increase production of pot…
Remove Fats, Oil & Grease from Slaughterhouse Wastewater with Oil Ski...
For more than 20 years, J.W. Treuth & Sons Inc., a kosher slaughterhouse based in Baltimore Coun…
Soybean Processing Plant Turns to Oil Skimmers Inc. for Custom-Engineered O...
The oil water problem was critical, and something needed to change. Fast.
Oil Skimmer Removes FOG and Reduces Costs at Food Production Plant
A large food production plant in the southern U.S. faced a major challenge: They were spending tho…
Oil Skimmer in Operation for 40+ Years
Eugene Parker, plant manager for Jesco Resources (Now AXEL Americas, LLC), a manufacturer of grease and gear oil for…
Improving Oil Water Separator by Adding Active Oil Removal
The Oil Skimmers, Inc., ESS – Enclosed Skimming System is helping the fuel distribution industry im…
Retif Oil & Fuel Inc.
Retif Oil & Fuel Inc. is one of the top petroleum specialty products distributors in the nation, offering customers a full range of …
Oil Water Separator and Oil Skimmer Combo Remove Oil from Wastewater Pits...
A manufacturer of plastic bins used in agricultural and industrial applications fabricates their produ…
Oil Skimmer Removes Lube Oil to Extend Life of Coolant, Reduce Maintenance a...
An automotive supplier discovers that oil skimming of lubricating oil from coolant water all…
Tramp Oil Skimmer to Extend the Life of Coolant
By James E Petrucci, V.P, Oil Skimmers, Inc., Cleveland, OH
Machine Shop Solves Strange Dermatitis Problem With Oil Skimmer Technology
Concerns about dermatology in a machine shop? This sounds more like discussing ballet on the ba…
Oil Water Separator to Separate and Skim Oil from Stormwater
In suburban Chicago, a metal fabrication plant stamps, welds, turns, cuts, assembles and finishes…
CAT Dealer Removes Oil from Wash Water
Beckwith Machinery Company of Murrysville, Pennsylvania (Now Cleveland Brothers), is one of the largest Caterpillar dealers in…
How One Tunneling Company Replaced Vacuum Truck Services with A Cost-Effi...
A North American company that specializes in the construction of shafts and tunnels for sanitary a…
Oil Water Separators Recover Hydraulic Oil at Packaging Plant
On a snowy afternoon in late December, as workers were shutting down machines and headi…
Oil Skimming Cuts Maintenance Cost at Power Plant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Performance Track Program is a prestigious prog…
Oil Skimmer for Sumps and Spill Response at Hydro Power Plant
Most hydroelectric plants designed in the 1960s were built with a station drainage sump that colle…
Railroad – ESS Winterization
Today, various sources point to railroads as among the world’s most environmentally conscious companies in the transportation busine…
Environmental Firm Uses Oil Skimmers to Provide New Service
For Bluffton Aeration Service Inc. (BASI), purchasing an oil skimmer was more than a cost…
How to Recover Quench Oil at Heat Treatment Plants
AMAC Enterprises Inc. has grown from six employees in the 1950s to 90 employees and ap…
Heated, Extended Reach Oil Skimmer Removes Oil from Wastewater Year-Rou...
Environmental compliance is a major concern and challenge for the recycling industry. There are few…
Oil Skimmer on Saltwater Disposal Pit Creates New Revenue Opportunity
Tapping into a gusher isn’t the only way to strike it rich in Texas. Joe T. Smith Inc., Hawley, Texas, has…
Tanner Improves Hide Treatment and Wastewater Treatment with Oil Skimmers
The Oil Skimmers Model 6V and Model 5H oil recovery systems are helping the tanning industr…
New Scale Pits at Steel Mill Fitted with Custom-Engineered Oil Removal Systems
When a current customer of Oil Skimmers, Inc. — a manufacturer of carbon and alloy steel bar, ro…
Oil Skimming to Resell Waste Oil
Many types of industrial processes create waste oil, and collecting, storing and disposing of it can be time-consuming and expensive. Worse yet, wi…
Steel Manufacturer Reduces Maintenance with Brill Oil Skimmer
A fabricated steel manufacturer used belt oil skimmers to remove oil at the discharge mouth…
Skim Lubrication Oil from Cooling Water
In all hot rolling mills, lubricants and hydraulic oils from the mills and their auxiliary equipment find their way into the cooling water. The water syste…
Steel Mini-Mill Replaces Costly Vac Truck Services with In-House Oil Skimmers to...
A steel mini-mill located in Portage, IN, that produces and sells hot-rolled steel in the north c…
Multi-Stage Oil Water Separator at Tank Truck Wash Facility
A food-grade transportation company specializing in the bulk transport of edible oils, syrups, milks…
Welded Tubing Manufacturer Saves Money by Removing Tramp Oil With an...
For a year after changing to synthetic coolant, the people at Charles E. Kline Co., Warren, Ohio wer…
Van Huffel Tube
What started out as an expensive problem of metalworking coolant contamination has been turned into a profitable oil-reclamation program…
Metal Furniture Maker Saves Thousands by Using Oil Skimmers to Remove Oil fr...
The manufacture of metal office furniture has hidden problems which can make production of…
