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QualiChem Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Gene Mulloy and Danny Payne to the QualiChem Team effective July 1. Gene and Danny are both respected industry professionals and are bringing their wealth of knowledge and industry experience to develop and support the continued growth of QualiChem across North America and worldwide.

Gene and Danny will be joining QualiChem as Regional Business Managers and will focus their efforts on growth and support of their customer base. They will be working with their extensive contacts across the water treatment industry to bring further value to them from the QualiChem product portfolio.  

Read the full Press Release here.

The Association of Water Technologies (AWT) 2020 Convention and Exposition is rapidly approaching and will take place on Wednesday, September 30 through Friday, October 2. This event was scheduled to be in Louisville, KY but has been moved to an online interactive event for 2020. QualiChem is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a virtual trade show booth during the Exposition.

While the format of the trade show will be different this year, it will still contain all of the same content as the in-person events have in the past. The AWT Annual Convention is where over 1,200 water treatment professionals and industry partners gather to exchange time, resources, strategies, solutions, and more. There are over three days of learning, growing, and finding inspiration, as attendees are equipped with a year's worth of support in their daily responsibilities as leaders in the industry. Visit the AWT Convention website here.    Visit the AWT Convention website here.Visit the AWT Convention website here.

QualiChem recently opened a new Research Center in Salem, VA. This new facility contains expanded Laboratory space as well as additional Executive Offices and Boardroom. The Research Center Lab allows the company to better separate the manufacturing lab support functions from the product development lab activities. The Research Center also provides additional Executive office space to support the overall growth of the company.

The lab space within the facility spans over 3,000 sq. ft. and over 150 linear feet of bench space. Our lab also houses many of the instruments used to support our business such as our IC (Ion Chromatograph), FTIR Spectrophotometer, Gas Chromatograph, and Microwave Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer, in addition to other lab equipment.

QualiChem is happy to announce that we recently opened a new water treatment manufacturing facility in Verdi, NV, located just outside of the Reno area. This manufacturing plant offers the same level of quality products as our plants in Salem, VA that QualiChem is known for and is managed by long term QualiChem staff that relocated from our Salem location. Since our last expansion, with a new facility in Salem, VA in 2017, QualiChem has had continued growth allowing for this West Coast expansion.

In our next post in this series, we want to discuss causes of microbiological fouling. This type of fouling occurs when planktonic, or free floating bacteria, attach to surfaces throughout the cooling system. As they attach, the bacteria will form a slime barrier that is used to protect the bacteria and to enhance the ability to stay attached to the surface. This environment they produce also helps with growth of the bacteria as it is a stable surrounding that can provide the food and protection needed for the bacteria to flourish.

Scaling is one of the most common types of foulants to occur on heat exchanger surfaces. When we refer to scale, we most often mean mineral scale that develops most commonly as calcium or hardness based salts such as calcium carbonate. These salts are unique in that they exhibit reverse solubility e.g. they become less soluble in water as the temperature rises. While the relationship between temperature and the level of salts in the water will determine if scale will form on the heat exchanger, there are relatively easy ways to control this type of scale in most situations.

Cooling tower system operation requires that a close eye be kept on performance in order to maintain cost and efficiency across the life cycle of the equipment. Heat exchanger fouling is a serious problem and can have a major impact on the performance of the systems if left unchecked.

In a previous blog post, we discussed the advantages of using fluorescent dyes and focused a lot of detail on explaining what the dyes are and how they work. In this post, we are going to cover in a bit more detail some of the reasons to consider using these products and what value QualiChem provides in manufacturing the products. 

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QualiChem just finished up the AWT show in Nashville last week.  What a great show and what a great town!!