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KASELCO
A Division of Kaspar Electroplating
KASELCO is a division of Kaspar
Electroplating, Incorporated. We are located on the primary
grounds of the KASPAR companies in the rural community of
Shiner, Texas,
about half-way between Houston and San Antonio, Texas.
KASELCO's first electrocoagulation system
was installed at Kaspar Electroplating Company in 1996. This 100 GPM
system uses four 25 GPM reactors and operates at least two shifts a day
and 6 days a week. Our first commercial unit was installed in January,
1997 and is still in operation in Houston.
KASELCO has over 50 customers, some outside
the US. Except for one trial unit in
Mexico, every system we’ve sold treated the wastewater as promised. A
system for the City of Los Angeles did not work as promised initially.
We replaced a dissolved air flotation solids separation component with a
slant-plate clarifier at our expense. Why? We supplied the plant
turn-key, promising water of a certain quality. We made it so.
EnviroTech International Group is our
sister-company in Beijing, China. Through this company, we are
satisfying our commitment to protect and clean the world's water by
engaging in China's emerging environmental protection plans.
KASELCO is supported by the skills and equipment
of her own staff, her sister companies, and outside consultants as
needed, such as:
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Kaspar companies’ skills include design and drafting; structural and sheet
metal forming and fabrication; welding and machining; controls and
electrical design and assembly; reactor component manufacturing; systems
assembly and testing.
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In
house equipment and processes used to manufacture our components and systems
include the usual welders, drill presses, shears, brakes, mills, lathes, and
so on. It also includes a variety of CNC machines like plasma cutting
tables; 60” high-speed punches, the largest with a 72-tool head;
large-platform mills that produce our reactor components; and so on.
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Many
of the parts manufactured for our KASELCO units are wet painted, powder
coated, vinyl coated, zinc plated or electro-polished. We do all of that
right here. 2-part epoxy is done at an industrial shop nearby.
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Outside consultants may be employed for specialty work such as reviewing our
designs to ensure compliance with UL, NEC and Canadian electrical standards.
KASELCO
LABORATORY: Since its inception, KASELCO operates and maintains its own
R&D and customer waste evaluation lab. It is complete with bench-scale reactors
and rectifiers and analytical equipment including atomic absorption. We work
with universities to forward our understanding of electrochemistry (and support
the success of Ph.D. students). This ensures that we apply the science as best
we can to advance the technology, and that we apply the technology as best we
can to the right wastewater treatment applications. Since we have our own 100GPM
source of wastewater to work with, we can execute larger scale trials. So when
we have a great idea that something could work to improve our process, we can
try it right here.
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Beginnings
Kaspar Wire Works has been in operation
since 1898. Since then the entrepreneurial Kaspar family has built
a complex of manufacturing companies that is the largest employer in six
counties.
Kaspar Electroplating Corporation (KEC),
which has been in operation since 1962, is our parent company. KEC was treating their wastewater
with chemical precipitation for many years. In 1995 they began to
evaluate electrocoagulation as an alternative to chemical precipitation.
The motivation, of course, was money. Kaspar Electroplating wanted to
reduce or eliminate the monthly chemical costs.
After disappointing results of a vendor's EC
system,
the KASELCO engineers installed their own reactor design.
Refinements led to a working reactor that was
effective, efficient, and easily serviced. This first system was a
4-reactor 100GPM plant. KEC has
been using EC successfully since that time.
Our first
commercial EC system was sold to an electroplating shop in Houston in
February, 1997. It has been in continuous operation since then, and is
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Success
Backed
by the 750 employees of the Kaspar manufacturing complex in Shiner, Texas,
KASELCO is becoming world renown as the leader in treating waste water streams
using electrocoagulation. We have a few dozen units in the field,
including overseas, and many companies will allow on-site visits for potential
customers.
We started by developing the technology to treat the 100 GPM combined waste water discharge from various
plating lines operated by our parent company, Kaspar Electroplating.
Since 1996, extensive research and development and thoughtful design and
engineering has resulted in
the reliable reactor configuration and user-friendly systems for which we are becoming
famous.
We continue R&D out of our commitment to
reliable and efficient systems. We use our own plating and other waste waters to define variations that
are aimed at specific wastes, and we are engaged in lab and field pilots to
prove even more areas.
Several technical papers on the principles and application of electro-coagulation
have been presented and published by our technical staff. We collaborate
with the researchers in universities, such as Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas,
and
Texas A&M. Some of
those papers are available in the "Library" for downloading if you would like to
learn more.
Our customers are amazed at the
simplicity of KASELCO systems, the ease of operation, and the ease of
maintenance. Everyone loves the cost savings resulting from
reduced chemical purchases, reduced operator involvement, and reduced solid
waste generation over chemical precipitation methods.
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Key People
First, we want to honor Paul Morkovsky. This is a name with whom anyone
in the EC research and application business is familiar. It is his
brilliant ideas that has our technology be so effective. He is a
chemical engineer, now retired with 43+ years of accomplishments.
He consults us in our continued R&D. His commitment to balancing responsible
economic business operation and excellent pollution prevention systems is what
got the Kaspar Companies into this business.
His successful pollution prevention programs, in addition to the
tremendous benefits of the KASELCO EC system in our own
facility, combined to earn Kaspar Companies the Texas Environmental
Excellence Award for 1998.
Douglas Kaspar, 4th-generation owner, is President. He has
been with the Kaspar companies his entire professional career after attaining a
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Doug's vision as well has his engineering expertise stimulated the development
of the technology and the development of the commercial units. His
business background supports the development of new markets such as our exciting
involvement in China.
Jim Beckman, General Manager, brings a
balance of business expertise and system and equipment design experience.
In a former career, Jim specialized in small power production, and since 1988
has
focused on environmental work including industrial and hazardous waste
management and industrial wastewater treatment. He has been in the service
business and the engineering, design and manufacturing business.
Jaime Bazan has been the KASELCO laboratory
technician for a number of years. He is adept at executing lab-scale
evaluations of candidate waste streams, and has operated pilot demonstrations at
customer plants. He has been involved in system startups and customer
training.
Trish "Radar" Longoria is the
Customer Service Representative and serves as company clerk. She keeps
everyone's units running with spare parts when needed.
Without her we wouldn't know where anything is.
Edwin Ulcak is our head fabrication and assembly
man. With a team of mechanics and electricians, he ensures the systems are
built right. He is involved in our day-to-day productions, as well as
in-house pilot trials of our next "good ideas". He has installed and commissioned some of our installations. |
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