Water Management
Our water management expertise helps customers save money and protect a precious natural resource
Jay Hutchison, Business Development Manager, conducts tests of water-saving technologies at a
municipal wastewater facility.
JohnsonDiversey's commitment to sustainable business practices extends beyond the doors of our own enterprise to finding ways to help our customers make their own businesses more sustainable. Our customers are dedicated to protecting their brands, improving their profitability and reducing their energy and water consumption, and they know we are dedicated to helping them meet those goals.
Our water management expertise is a key example of how we help customers improve their operational efficiency, reduce their costs and decrease their impact on the natural environment. Water comprises a significant portion of the cost of cleaning facilities. In places such as food and beverage processing facilities, for example, it is the single most costly element of the cleaning process. By helping our customers use less water, and use it more efficiently, we help them reduce their costs and improve their bottom-line results.
"JohnsonDiversey has been very proactive in working with us to come up with new innovations and new products that we can use within our plant to reach each goal," said one global bottling customer.
We begin our water management offering with AquaCheckTM/MC, a comprehensive analysis of our customers' operations. We document the water use and environmental footprint in an operation. Then, we audit the facility and collaborate with the customer to develop targets for reducing water use and environmental impact. When the customer has agreed on a course of action, we work with them to implement water, energy and effluent reductions.
We have developed an extensive suite of products, services and expertise that work in tandem with one another to improve our customers' operational efficiency as well as their cleaning and sanitizing results.
We have conducted extensive tests with soft-drink bottling plants, for instance, to document the energy, water and time savings that result from implementation of each component of our bundled plant-cleaning offering. Our superior products and solutions enabled plants to reduce the number of steps involved in cleaning the bottling lines, contributing to a reduction in downtime on the lines and reductions in labor costs. Instead of a hot-water process, we recommended products and procedures using water at its ambient temperature, helping cut the plant's energy use and related carbon dioxide emissions. We enabled plants to recover and reuse cleaning and sanitizing products, which not only reduced their costs but also cut the effluent from the plant.
We also have introduced dry technologies for cleaning certain areas of plants. These products and techniques replace water-based approaches. Dry technologies reduce the time workers spend on cleaning tasks as well as reducing water use and spillover, which in turn cuts the risk of slip-and-fall injuries and reduces costs and waste.
For instance, our innovative Dry Tech 5 concentrated lubricant reduces friction on stainless steel conveyor lines and helps reduce the build-up of debris and soils. The Dry Tech 5 dry lubricant offers customers tremendous savings versus water-based lubricants and reduces downtime on conveyor lines associated with other cleaning operations. It also improves plant safety by reducing water runoff onto floors.
In a snack-food processing plant, we found similar savings. Our products enabled customers to clean frying and baking equipment with less chemical use, less water and substantially less downtime between products.
We provide our customers with documented analysis of the cost, energy and water reductions they can achieve by implementing each aspect of our program, as well as the overall savings from implementing the total package.
In a single carbonated soft-drink plant, for example, we documented savings of 13 million gallons of water and 2 billion to 4.5 billion BTUs of energy.
JohnsonDiversey's unique ability to provide superior cleaning products, expert advice and close partnerships with our customers enables us to help our customers reach their business objectives, and helps all of us conserve the earth's precious resources.