Chemical Solutions for
Building Materials Manufacturers
Cleaners & Degreasers | Defoamers | Heating and Cooling System Water Treatment |
Wet Electrostatic Precipitator Treatment | and more
When You Manufacture Building Materials, You Can’t Afford Downtime
For building material manufacturers, all systems are critical to production. To maintain product quality, you need to maintain your production equipment and ensure heating and cooling systems are running efficiently. As production increases, your heating and cooling systems need to keep up. You need the right chemistry to ensure peak performance and keep your utility costs in check.
Chemistry That Keeps Pace For
Building Materials Manufacturers
Solutions
Water Treatment
Guardian offers industry-leading water treatment solutions for building material manufacturing to ensure your heating and cooling systems work efficiently while minimizing utility and maintenance costs. Our approach includes the use of advanced chemistry, professional service, and holistic processes to keep your systems running at the lowest possible cost.
We have decades of experience and use data-driven processes to provide peace of mind for operations and leadership. Our top priority is health and safety, which includes providing proper training and implementing water management plans to prevent legionella.
While the best water systems will be perfectly balanced, we understand that sometimes not everything goes as planned. That’s why we also offer defoamers, descalers and odour controllers to get your system back to peak performance.
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Sanitizing & Disinfecting
Guardian Chemicals solutions keep your buildings clean and safe. Protecting staff health and safety, protects production.
We offer a variety of solutions that are registered with Health Canada, including hard surface cleaners, sanitizers, and disinfectants that effectively remove visible and invisible bacteria, fungi, and other contaminants. Our products are designed to keep surfaces clean and safe for everyone in and around your buildings.
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Descaling
The best water systems for building materials manufacturing will be perfectly balanced to minimize scale issues. However, once scale develops, it can impact the efficacy of your boilers, chillers, cooling towers, and heat exchangers. By treating this issue as soon as it’s noticed, you can prevent further negative impacts on your systems and equipment. We have solutions to properly treat these issues and optimize your system’s performance.
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As your manufacturing business grows, changes and adapts, so do your chemical needs. You need a partner who can support you every step of the way.
At Guardian Chemicals, we know that no two systems are the same, and each solution needs to be created to support your unique needs. What works for building materials manufacturers one quarter might change the next. Our team offers the right solutions and service to match. That’s what sets Guardian Chemicals apart.
Programs for your systems: boiler water treatment, cooling tower treatment, closed loop and chiller treatment and DataGuard monitoring. Local service: Edmonton and Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Florida.
We don’t believe in ‘deliver-and-done’. True benefits revolve around the consistency of program execution, which is why we’re there when you need us both for regular servicing and emergency support for life.
Our experts know your industry and will seek to understand the unique challenges of your business. Let’s talk.
Your systems and processes are interconnected. We’ll arrange a site visit to understand the bigger picture.
Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Solutions for Building Materials Manufacturing
Process cooling water treatment for chillers and towers, boiler treatment where steam is used in curing or drying, descaling on heat transfer equipment, and sanitation chemistry for the plant. Dust, high heat and abrasive process conditions make fouling faster here than in general manufacturing.
Airborne dust and fines. Plants making concrete products, gypsum, insulation or panels load the cooling tower with particulate that would never appear in a commercial building. That solids load feeds biofilm and creates under-deposit corrosion, and it has to be treated as a solids problem as well as a scale problem.
It scales every heated surface, which cuts heat transfer on curing, drying and process heating equipment and lengthens cycle time. In a plant where throughput is the constraint, scale on a heat exchanger shows up as reduced output long before it shows up as an equipment failure.
Yes, and it should be. Condition-based cleaning driven by differential pressure or approach temperature lets you schedule the work into a planned outage rather than discovering it during a run. That is the difference between a shift of planned work and an unplanned line stop.
Some combination of mineral scale, process dust, corrosion product and biological growth, and the mix is plant-specific. Sending a deposit sample to a lab before selecting a cleaner is the step that prevents buying an acid that does nothing to an organic or silica-based deposit.
Yes. Closed loops corrode from oxygen entering through make-up, seals and air separators, and the iron oxide that produces fouls coils and exchangers. Closed loops fail more quietly than open ones, which is why they are more often found in poor condition.
Lay up the systems rather than leaving them standing. Untreated, oxygenated water sitting in idle equipment does more corrosion damage over a shutdown than a full production season. A wet layup with oxygen scavenger and elevated pH, or a proper dry layup, takes a shift and prevents it.
Scheduled testing and adjustment on site, deposit and water analysis through our lab, written results left with your maintenance lead, and help scoping cleaning work when equipment needs it. Most plants of this size do not have a water treatment specialist, and that is the gap our field team fills.
At our plant in Sturgeon County, Alberta, with US production at Kissimmee, Florida. For manufacturers with Canadian content requirements in their own supply chain, buying Canadian-made process chemistry is a straightforward way to support that.
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