Industrial Chemical Solutions for
Heavy Equipment
Effective chemical solutions critical to heavy machines and equipment
With Heavy Duty Equipment, Chemistry Makes a Big Difference
Your industry is tough on its equipment. When you need chemistry for scheduled (or unplanned) maintenance, you need solutions that are effective and fast-acting, including high-flash-point and low-VOC options that reduce fire risk and solvent exposure for your team. Because downtime compounds and creates a chain reaction that impacts your entire operations.
You Need a Chemical Partner That Can Deliver
Science, solutions & service work together for superior chemical performance
With outsized equipment, dirt and buildup cause huge problems. Your chemical partner should understand the two essential truths of your industry: cleaner equipment means better performance, and every extra minute of efficiency adds up. Guardian Chemicals strive to deliver solutions that work.
Solutions
Cleaning & Degreasing
Dirt and grime don’t just impact performance; it’s also a safety issue. That’s why we specialize in heavy equipment cleaning, large wash bay technologies, and electric motor cleaning to create solutions that can perform in all conditions, and reduce time spent cleaning. Our field experts will find faster, more effective ways to meet your unique challenges, no matter what is fouling your equipment.
Our expertise and partnerships with our clients for their chemical cleaning projects ensure safe and efficient cleaning, optimized equipment performance, and improved production capabilities.
Degassing & Scavenging
Effective scavenging and degassing is critical for your business. Not only can highly effective chemistry decrease downtime, it also helps protect your staff from H2S. Our highly concentrated scavenger products are designed to selectively scavenge H2S fast, effectively, and irreversibly. It converts poisonous and foul-smelling H2S gas to a liquid product. Many of our scavenger products can also effectively reduce mercaptans by over 90%.
Sanitizing & Disinfecting
Protect the health of everyone in and around your buildings from the visible and invisible bacteria, fungi, and other contaminants that can linger for days in the right environment. Guardian’s wide variety of solutions include several registered with Health Canada. All our hard surface cleaners, sanitizers, and disinfectants are made to ensure the cleanliness of contaminated surfaces.
Metal Preparation
Minimize equipment downtime with efficient parts cleaning solutions that prioritize safety and efficacy. Your parts washers and hot tanks require customized solutions to meet your needs. Our metal preparation chemical solutions include innovative blends of high-performance surfactants, alkalinity boosters, water conditioning agents, and corrosion inhibitors. We craft solutions to overcome your unique challenges, and our team can even assist with application and disposal.
We Deliver More for your Heavy Equipment
Your chemical needs onsite are many, but we’re able to deliver no matter the conditions.
At Guardian Chemicals, we offer a range of solutions that ensure effective cleaning of your heavy machinery and equipment. From low odor, high flashpoint, low V.O.C. to carbon and light oil based cleaning chemicals, we use our decades of expertise and industry-leading lab resources to find solutions that work better for you. But what truly sets us apart isn’t just our knowledge, it’s our dedication to ensuring our service delivers real answers to your problems.
Supply and proof: industrial degreasers from Guardian, the TerraSol ULV haul truck case study and the guide to the best oil sands degreasers. Local supply in Edmonton and Fort McMurray.
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 Heavy Equipment
Bitumen and heavy hydrocarbon bound with clay and mineral fines. It sets hard, bonds to painted and bare steel, and does not respond to general-purpose degreasers. It needs a purpose-built bitumen remover with enough dwell time to penetrate before pressure washing.
Temperature, mostly. Cleaning chemistry slows dramatically as ambient and water temperature fall, and most products are formulated and tested at conditions a Canadian winter never provides. Chemistry developed for cold-weather use, plus longer dwell, is what closes the gap.
Match the chemistry to the surfaces and control dwell. Strongly alkaline or solvent-heavy products left to dry on painted surfaces will dull or lift them, and aluminium etches. Rinsing before the product dries matters as much as the product choice.
Pre-soak with the right chemistry, give it real dwell time, then pressure wash. Crews under time pressure shorten the dwell and increase pressure, which takes longer overall and puts more water and more runoff through the operation for a worse result.
Contain and characterise it. Wash water from heavy equipment carries hydrocarbon, solids and metals, and discharge limits apply nearly everywhere. We provide the expected characteristics for the product and dose so the wash pad and any treatment can be sized before the work starts.
Yes, mostly by letting chemistry do more of the work. Effective pre-soak with adequate dwell cuts rinse time and volume substantially, because you are rinsing away loosened soil instead of blasting bonded soil off with water.
Rarely well. These are different soils and a product that handles all three acceptably usually handles none of them efficiently. Most operations do better with a heavy-duty degreaser for general work and a dedicated bitumen remover for the hard cases.
We hold product approvals at major oilsands sites, and where a product is not yet on a site list we work directly with site EHS to have it assessed. That is a normal part of our process rather than an exception we make for large accounts.
Cleaning standards there are different because the goal is inspection and reassembly, not appearance. Residue left in a gearbox or on a mating surface becomes a contamination problem in the rebuild, so gear cleaning and parts cleaning chemistry is chosen for compatibility and rinse behaviour rather than speed.
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