Key Markets
- Poultry & Prepared Meats
- Dairy, Eggs, Cheese and Ice Cream
- Frozen and Snack Foods
- Salad Dressings
- Fruits & Vegetables
- Grains
Key Issues
- Consistent performance of clarifiers & DAF units under varying wastewater conditions
- Most cost-efficient removal of BOD/COD
- Low to zero risk of EPA fines & surcharges
- Marketability of recovered materials for animal feed
How Hexagon Can Help?
- Full line of standard and custom-made coagulants
- Full line of cationic and anionic emulsion polymers
- Food-grade and FDA-approved defoamers for foam control
- Regulatory compliance (FDA, EPA)
Key Markets
- Anodizing
- Electroplating
- Spray Painting
- Surface Finishing
Key Issues
- Presence of heavy metals in waste stream, including: copper, zinc, nickel, chromium
- Low cost removal of heavy and chelated metals along with regulatory compliance
- Separation of oil, grease, surfactants, synthetic coolants, alkaline cleaners in waste stream
How Hexagon can help?
- Full line of coagulants and oil-in-water emulsion breakers
- Full line of anionic flocculants (dry/liquid)
- Metal scavengers for chelated and complex metals
- Industrial defoamers for foam control
Key Markets
- Treatment of oily and greasy wastewater
- Grease trap waste (restaurants)
- Storage tanks, machine shops, oil refineries
Key Issues
- Wide variations in wastewater characteristics from batch to batch
- Maximum hydrocarbon recovery at the lowest cost
- Removal of heavy metals
- Eliminate or reduce use of strong acids and alkalis
How Hexagon Can Help?
- Coagulants including custom-made blends
- Cationic polymers with predictable performance over wide range of conditions
- Anionic polymers and metal scavengers for chelated or complex heavy metals
Key Markets
- Municipal sewage/wastewater treatment plants
- Belt press, centrifuge, screw press, rotary fan press, thickener, drying beds, lagoons
Key Issues
- Cost per ton of dry sludge
- Wide range of sludge conditions and characteristics
- Cake solids (%)
- Rapid floc formation, floc stability, and drainage
- Low TSS in filtrate/centrate
How Hexagon Can Help?
- Liquid and dry cationic polymers for all types of dewatering equipment
- Polymers of varying structure (linear, branched, cross-linked)
- Polymers of varying charge (low, medium, high)
- Polymers of varying molecular weight (MW)
- Reduced dosage and cost savings
- Jar testing, plant trials and technical support (quick response to changes in sludge)
Key Markets
- EPA remediation projects
Key Issues
- Solid-liquid separation
- Removal of heavy metals and toxic substances
- Dredging
How Hexagon can help?
- Full line of coagulants and emulsions
- Laboratory testing to determine optimal treatment
- Regulatory information and data
Key Markets
- Municipal drinking/potable water treatment plants
Key Issues
- Maximum turbidity reduction and TOC removal
- Cost efficiency and minimal number of treatment chemicals
- Effluent turbidity within regulatory limits
- Different weather (rain) and seasonal conditions
How Hexagon Can Help?
- Large selection of NSF-approved coagulants
- Full line of NSF-approved filter aids (emulsions/dry polymers)
- Reduced dosage and cost savings
- Jar testing and technical support
Key Markets
- Industrial laundries
Key Issues
- Oil and grease in wastewater (high BOD)
- Heavy metals presence in wastewater
- Significant variations in wastewater
How Hexagon can help?
- Full line of coagulants and flocculants (polymers) for removal of oil and grease
- Lower applied cost of chemicals per 1,000 gallons of wastewater
- Polymer optimization for a wide window of wastewater conditions
Key Markets
- Liner Board Mills
- Tissue
- Fine Paper
- Recycled Paper Mills
- Converting Plants
- Increasing mill productivity
- Increase in first pass retention
- Higher fiber recovery
- Prevention of deposits/stickies
- Dry strength & wet strength additives
- Unique retention and drainage aids
- Anionic charge scavengers
- Wastewater treatment polymers
- Defoamers – water-based, oil-based
Key Issues
How Hexagon Can Help?
Key Markets
- Automotive parts
- Appliances
- Steel furniture
Key Issues
- Wastewater generated from overspray and unused paint
- Paint becomes tacky and sticks to walls and surfaces
- Foam problem from surfactants in wastewater
How Hexagon can help?
- Full line of paint detackifiers
- Anionic flocculants to pull together detackified paint particles
- Specialty industrial defoamers for paint booths