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Hydro-Klean


Hydro-Klean, Inc.
333 NW 49th Place
Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.
515-283-0500
www.hydro-klean.com

Hydro-Klean, Inc. is a niche industrial and environmental services company. It provides industrial cleaning, infrastructure maintenance, special waste handling, processing and waste transportation services on a scheduled or emergency basis. Clients include both industry and government, most of which are located in the upper Midwest.

Hydro-Klean offers multiple cleaning capabilities for a wide variety of industrial needs. The company focuses on how the cleaning maintenance affects the processes in a clients’ businesses. Hydro-Klean understands the importance of minimizing or preventing downtime.

The company can convey almost any type of material or waste pneumatically with its industrial vacuum equipment. This includes dry, liquid, or sludge type materials. It offers a diverse fleet of vacuum machines with each machine having special loading and off-loading features, and it has the ability to transfer materials pneumatically from one place to another without loading the material into the vacuum machine’s storage tanks. The air stream filtration system built into some of its vacuum machines controls airborne emissions when vacuuming dry powder type materials. Hydro-Klean also has the ability to transfer, contain, and transport low flash point materials safely with our vacuum equipment.

High-pressure water cleaning, referred to as hydro-blasting, is another Hydro-Klean forte. Hydro-blasting is the quickest and most economical method of cleaning most surfaces, process equipment and containments. The company has many specialized hydro-blasting machines that handle specific cleaning tasks quicker, safer, and more economically than conventional equipment.

The company is equally experienced and qualified for industrial pipe cleaning tasks with the use of high-pressure water jets. Its water jetting service is an effective and economical way to clean industrial sewers and process pipelines. It can clean a wide range of pipe diameters, and has specialized equipment that allows it to clean long reaches of piping and intricate piping systems.

Hydro-Klean doesn’t stop at industrial cleaning, providing services for petroleum and hazardous materials releases from tanks, piping and transportation equipment. Trained personnel will safely contain and remediate the situation. Upon completion of the project, Hydro-Klean can provide assistance with disposal of waste materials at its own industrial pretreatment plant.

At Hydro-Klean, safety always is the first priority. The safety of employees starts with dedication and hard work. Hydro-Klean employs a professional Health & Safety Manager to work full-time on the health and safety aspects of daily operations. This allows the company to commit full attention to any safety issues or concerns that may come up. The Health & Safety Manager also is an OSHA General Industry Outreach Trainer, authorized to train in accordance with guidelines provided by the OSHA Training Institute.

Employees receive more than 80 hours of skilled training within their first six months of employment and more than 20 hours of skilled refresher training on a yearly basis. Included in the training at Hydro-Klean are 24-hour confined space entry, 40-hour HAZWOPER, first aid and CPR classes, OSHA 10 hour training and many other subjects taught on a monthly basis.

Hydro-Klean will uphold its position as a safety leader by promoting environmental, health and safety excellence. The efficiency of any safe operation can and should be measured by the company’s ability to control unnecessary losses. By this standard, Hydro-Klean always delivers outstanding performance. Its award winning safety program means clients don’t have to worry about the safety of Hydro-Klean employees working at a site.

Hydro-Klean is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The company guarantees a telephone response from a manager within 10 minutes of a call…every day, all day.

Services

Entire dryer system and energy center cleaning

Process pipe cleaning & video inspection

Storage tank services: interior / exterior tank cleaning, tank isolation and floating roof leg pinning

Sieve bead removal & disposal

Water filter media removal / replacement

Product / process chemical transfers

Waste disposal services