Gear, Heavy Equipment and Machinery Cleaning and Degreasing Solutions for Mining
Effective chemical solutions for the mining industry
You Can’t Afford Mistakes
Mining is a unique industry—no other is quite as 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. Downtime, whether it’s caused by application limitations or delivery, just won’t cut it.
Whatever Your Needs, We Have Your Bases Covered
We’ve made mining our business for decades
We know mining—we’ve been creating superior chemistry solutions to outfits across the world for decades. We understand that you need effective and safe chemistry. And it’s got to be easy to apply in a wide range of conditions.
Solutions
Cleaning & Degreasing
Dirty equipment is equipment that isn’t running at top efficiency. Whether it’s hydrocarbons, dirt, debris, or other contaminants, we have the specialized chemistry for heavy equipment cleaning, large washbay technologies, and electric motor cleaning. We tailor our solutions so that they can perform in any conditions and to the standard that you demand.
Our expertise and partnerships with our clients for their chemical cleaning projects ensure safe and efficient cleaning, optimized equipment performance, and improved production capabilities.
Gear Cleaning
Metal Preparation
In preparing metal components for return to work, efficacy and safety are of top concern. Our chemical solutions include innovative blends of high performance surfactants, alkalinity boosters, water conditioning agents, and corrosion inhibitors. We craft solutions to meet your unique challenges, and can assist with application and disposal.
Water Treatment
Water is a sometimes overlooked, but incredibly important part of your operations. In your processing facilities, you need to ensure that your heating and cooling systems are working effectively while minimizing utility costs. We can help by providing chemistry that is designed to get the most out of your systems, and the service support needed to keep them working as long as possible. This includes a suite of solutions such as defoamers, corrosion inhibitors, descalers and odour controllers to help keep your system at peak performance. We additionally have solutions for your wastewater to ensure you can avoid dangerous bacteria growth or unintended environmental impact.
Sanitizing & Disinfecting
Keeping your team safe and healthy is critical to your operations—now more than ever. Both visible and invisible bacteria, fungi, and other contaminants can linger for hours or days in the right environment. Guardian’s wide variety of solutions include several registered with Health Canada, and all our hard surface cleaners, sanitizers, and disinfectants are made to ensure the cleanliness of contaminated surfaces. Talk to our team about sanitizing and disinfecting solutions for any worksite environment.
We Meet You Where You Are
Your work takes you to some of the most remote places in the world. Guardian can be there for you, wherever that is. By barge, by truck, or by air, we can deliver superior solutions that not only keep production going but improve efficiency and product quality.
- Continually working to improve product performance for a better return on investment
- Prioritizing safety for your workers and the environment
- Working to simplify application and offer product support
- Being a trusted source for multiple chemical needs
Related: gear cleaning chemistry, the ball mill cleaning guide and the Traxol EP3 SAG mill case study. Oil sands operators: 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.
Ball Mill Gear Cleaning and Maintenance: A Practical Guide
Regular cleaning of ball mills, tailored to the processed material and equipment design, can significantly enhance their operational efficiency and lifespan. Chemical cleaning agents offer superior cleaning, minimizing labor, downtime, and risk of equipment damage. By implementing comprehensive maintenance routines,
Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Solutions for Mining
Heavy-duty cleaners and degreasers for mobile equipment and fixed plant, gear cleaning chemistry for gearboxes and drive systems, metal preparation for maintenance and rebuild work, water treatment for camp and plant heating and cooling, and sanitation chemistry for camp and facilities.
Scale and soil type. Mining soils combine hydrocarbon with abrasive mineral fines that bind into a hard deposit, and the equipment is large, often cleaned outdoors, and cleaned in cold conditions for much of the year in Canada. A degreaser that works in a shop at twenty degrees behaves differently at minus twenty.
Because the objective is different from degreasing. You are removing degraded lubricant, varnish and wear debris from a system that has to go straight back into service with new oil, without leaving residue that contaminates the new charge or attacks seals and elastomers. Confirming compatibility matters more than cleaning speed.
Design for it before the clean, not after. Wash water carries hydrocarbon, solids and whatever chemistry you used, and it goes to a containment or treatment system with permit limits. We provide the expected characteristics for the product and dose you are running so your environmental group can confirm capacity.
We hold product approvals at major sites and we go through the site approval process where a product is not yet on a list. Where a product needs adding, we work directly with site EHS to get it assessed rather than leaving it with the buyer to chase.
By formulating for it. Products used outdoors through a Canadian winter need to remain pourable, stay homogeneous after freeze-thaw, and still clean at low ambient and low water temperature. This is where chemistry developed for milder climates tends to disappoint.
Camp and plant heating boilers, any cooling or process water system, and domestic water in camp facilities. Sites with accommodation carry the same domestic hot water and Legionella considerations as any building, with the added factor of variable occupancy through shift rotations.
Through regional representation, planned delivery scheduling rather than emergency freight, and product consolidation so fewer SKUs need stocking on site. Remote operations get expensive when a missing drum stops a job, so stocking strategy is part of the technical conversation.
Yes. Through our BrightShield process we scope the cleaning work ahead of the outage, screen chemistry against the actual deposit in our lab, support the application on site, and issue a validation report. Turnaround windows do not allow for figuring out chemistry on the day.
We cater to every need, planned or unexpected.
