Some Installations

Here is a partial list of KASELCO EC installations.  These companies have given their permission to be listed here.

ITT Night Vision Industries, Roanoke, VA

Arsenic and Lead removed from manufacturing process water.  A U.S. government contractor.  Two tandem/parallel 10GPM units (10/20).

Kaspar Electroplating Corporation, Shiner, Texas
Our parent company - plates nickel, chromium, and zinc and performs stainless steel electropolish. A 100-gpm (4x25GPM) application replaced chemical precipitation system (retrofit). Resulted in 94% savings in waste treatment chemical costs. Anionic polymer used at a reduced rate. Sludge production: 40% decrease.  This system is used for R&D and demonstration as well as 24/6 treatment.

J&R Coatings, Hillsboro, Texas
A 10gpm, automatic system complete except for filter press.  Treats zinc, cobalt, chromates, and electroless nickel rinses from a plating operation.

Newalta Corporation, Surry, British Columbia, Canada

A Treatment, Storage and Disposal (TSD) facility operating almost 24/7 takes in a wide variety of industrial wastewaters daily.  KASELCO EC treats many of these.  Some are segregated for separate treatment.  Many are combined for simultaneous treatment.  A "25/50" system:  Two 25GPM units may be operated in parallel for 50 GPM treatment capacity, or may be operated in sequence on difficult wastes.

Gull Industries, Houston, Texas
Company plates decorative nickel and chromium primarily on brass, and performs some nitric passivating and electroless nickel plating. Complete 10gpm installation (full-scope) processing hundreds of ppm of nickel and chromium.  Since January, 1996.

Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
A 2.5gpm, manual system treats Alodine (chromium conversion)  and other rinse waters from aircraft refinishing operations. The wheeled system is air transportable.  It is used to reduce hexavalent chromium to trivalent and produces a stable sludge.

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Littleton, New Hampshire
Company produces die castings in many alloys. Primary contaminants are cleaners, oils, and chromium. The automatic, 10/20gpm system is completely new and has two reactors that can run in series or parallel. It includes two Kaselco 10gpm clarifiers with split flow.

Wesco Valve ManufacturingCo., Marshall, Texas
Remediation project treating hexavalent chromium recovered in groundwater.  Complete, automatic 10gpm system with extensive tanks and features to treat a soil slurry containing 1.3 to 98ppm hexavalent chromium.

Modern Plating Co., Tulsa, Oklahoma
An automatic, complete 10gpm system treating zinc, nickel, chromium, electroless nickel rinses, and other wastes from an electroplating operation.

Synergistic Environmental Systems, San Antonio, Texas
This company provides a variety of environmental services. The 2.5gpm reactor is used on their shop-built, portable treatment unit treating various wastes. The most constant waste is wash water contaminated with oils and metals from equipment and facility cleaning processes.

Metal Coatings of Texas, Houston, Texas
High quality metal finishing, including alkaline zinc plating, phosphating, and powder coating. The complete 10gpm, automatic system is part of a process expansion with a new plating line. It also processes rinse waters from an electrodeposition primer process.

Oswaldo Rengifo, Miami, Florida
This company washes commercial tanks.  Their water supply is rationed, and they are forced to re-use water.  Dirty water is processed through the system and re-used at 10gpm.  [INACTIVE: This system has since been sold to Synergistic Environmental Services, San Antonio, to be used as a contract (toll) treatment system.]

Spectrum Control Technology of State College, PA
Spectrum Control is an electronic component manufacturer whose processes require treatment of copper, nickel, electroless nickel, tin, and silver (after cyanide destruction), and lead from solder, along with stripping and cleaning chemicals at 10gpm. Their sludge is recycled for precious metals, paying for the operation of the system.

Chelazzi International of South Africa
This user is treating chromium-bearing waste from a tannery at 25gpm.

Western Forge Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
Western Forge processes include cobalt plating and chromate conversion coating, along with standard cleaners and strippers.

Delstar of Houston, Texas
Delstar performs  high-quality stainless steel electropolishing services using proprietary chemicals.  The waste is high in phosphates, copper, nickel, and chromium.  The waste is extremely high in solids which are non-hazardous after electrocoagulation.

Pratt & Whitney HAC, Grand Prairie, Texas
This customer generates waste from an alodine process with various other components and treats with a Kaselco 10gpm system.

B&W Plating, Van Buren, Arkansas
This electroplater plates tin and lead on copper electrical  components.  The 10gpm, complete system allows discharge to a POTW.

Safety Kleen Canada (Formerly Active Chemicals LTD), Delta, British Columbia, Canada
Active Chemicals, Ltd. performs waste treatment for others.  Major clients are shipping companies' (bilge water) and oil refineries (oily water).  This plant and operations sold to .

Universal Display & Fixture, Lewisville, Texas
Universal Display and Fixture Company manufactures store display fixtures and operates a powder coating line with a five-stage washer.  The wash line includes phosphate coating and a de-ionized water final rinse.

Valco Manufacturing, Inc., Duncan, Oklahoma
Valco Manufacturing produces parts for Bell Textron using a variety of finishing processes.

Laughlin Air Force Base, Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas
The system is to purify alodine rinse water generated by corrosion control processes.  System treats alodine with 480 PPM chrome to 0.001 PPM effluent chrome.

AmeriPlate, Joliet, Illinois
AmeriPlate Manufacturing operates a plating operation for copper and brass coils.  The process includes alkaline cleaning, double electrocleaner, acid copper plating, and acid tin plating followed by neutralizing and drying.

Columbus Air Force Base, Jackson, Mississippi
A 2.5gpm, manual system treats alodine and other rinsewaters from aircraft refinishing operations.  The wheeled system is air transportable.  It is used to remove hexavalent chromium and produces a stable sludge.

Metform Extrusions, Savanna, Illinois
Metform operates a zinc phosphate line that generates a flow of 15gpm. 

Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas
A 2.5gpm, manual system treats Alodine (chromate conversation, CrVI) and other rinse waters from aircraft refinishing operations.  It is used to remove hexavalent chromium and produces a stable sludge.

Precision Anodizing, Anaheim, California
Precision Anodizing performs zinc plating and aluminum anodizing.  75GPM.  Produced such good water for reuse that they could turn down their makeup flow rate, reducing the amount of wastewater to be treated.

Lamar University,Beaumont, Texas
Lamar University, in conjunction with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), A&M University at Corpus Christi and the Texas Engineering Extension Service, has funded a project to operate a pilot electrocoagulation system along the Texas border in Mexico.