FOR IRON & STEEL OPERATIONS, IT’S ALL ABOUT SAFETY, COMPLIANCE & PRODUCTIVITY

Midwest’s dust control Programs control dust, control costs and control road conditions. All because of a Program instead of a product.

YOUR SITE, YOUR PROGRAM.

Midwest collaboratively develops your program, which is customized and tested on your site.

A product alone is not enough. The Midwest dust control for steel mill roads program seamlessly integrates into your iron or steel operations for real world performance results. Co-developed with you, it provides the right product for guaranteed success for the different areas of your plant.

Midwest offers the only customized and managed dust control program for iron and steel plant roads and coil and slab yards. Anyone can sell you a product, but Midwest’s solution combines product chemistry for heavy traffic environment with expert application, supported by continuous site observation, service and testing, with changes made as needed.

It enables heavy, continuous traffic without road quality deterioration; reduces airborne dust to desired control efficiency levels; improves all facility and community stewardship; increases road surface strength and prevents road surface quality issues even at various grades; all while guaranteeing regulatory compliance.

DUST & WATER DON’T HAVE TO HARM IRON & STEEL.

Take back your operations, with up to 90% dust and water reduction, for double the efficiency performance.

It seems amazing that particles of dust and flowing water can impact something as strong and durable as iron and steel. But when it’s massive clouds of dust and truck after truck of daily applications of as much as 100,000 gallons of water each year, the damage makes sense.

Fugitive dust infiltrates the iron and steel manufacturing process
Causes quality issues
Particulate dust limits visibility and makes breathing difficult
Affects employee safety and health
Dust gets into equipment and gathers in work areas
Necessitates costly maintenance and replacement/repair
Water washes away fines and degrades roads
Slows productivity and requires ongoing road maintenance
Temporary palliative is both ineffective and short-lived
Application after application wastes time and money; water truck call out response can be untimely
Impact of environmental, health and safety regulations
Risk of fines and operational interruption

Midwest solves every one of these issues — and more.

The problems are real and the impact is serious, but there is a proven dust control methodology based on Midwest’s proprietary chemistry and the science of true dust suppression. Midwest delivers these dramatic results for iron and steel plants across the country.

WATERING DOWN DUST ONLY PROLONGS THE PROBLEM; IT DOESN'T SOLVE IT.

All aspects of Midwest’s Managed Service Program lead to greater productivity. It was expressly created for industrial facilities that operate unpaved areas and roadways, with the primary requirements to suppress dust and ensure road/surface stability providing you the best operations platform. As you experience every day, overwatered roads deteriorate and necessitate much more maintenance.

Midwest offers a complete dust control and surface management program, because Midwest is distinct in the industry — believing that products provide only 40% of the benefit, while a customized application strategy accounts for the remaining, greater 60%.

A comprehensive program approach has been shown to offer twice the effectiveness, or double the return on performance (RoP):

 Dust Control for Steel Mill Roads

Your Midwest program is customized for your site and conditions to maximize results and productivity.

The world of productivity is a problem/solution world. You either solve problems or you don’t. The ability to solve common yet significant problems defines the value you will receive. Midwest’s complete dust control and surface management program solves several of your most nagging and recurring problems for unbeatable value delivered for your operations.

PROBLEM
  • Ineffective dust suppression, as watering only lasts 15-25 minutes.
  • The cost of time and equipment for repeated application of water.
  • Grading and degradation of roads, as overwatering washes out fines, which causes potholes, washboarding and a significant investment in regular road maintenance.
  • Dust infiltration that damages equipment and invades work areas, necessitating replacement and repair; regular cleaning of filters, motors and bearings; as well as a constant sweeping regimen.
  • Complaints about compromised health and safety due to fugitive dust.
  • Possible emissions compliance issues and citations related to airborne dust, risking fines for exceedances, reduced visibility and health/safety consequences.
SOLUTION
  • Midwest delivers reliable dust reduction on roads, yards and lots up to 90% from proprietary chemistry and expert application, with a site application plan co-developed with you to ensure your success.
  • Midwest reduces water consumption up to 90%, freeing employees for more profitable uses of their time.
  • Midwest decreases grading up to 75%, protecting fines and surface integrity to minimize the need for ongoing maintenance.
  • Midwest lowers equipment maintenance and replacement and powerwashing by up to 75%, and reduces sweeping by at least 50%.
  • Midwest reduces PM2.5 and PM10 by up to 80%, improving employee safety and happiness.
  • Midwest GUARANTEES compliance, with 100% assurance to maintain permitting requirements. Midwest offers emissions and silica rule compliance testing for recordkeeping and reporting.
A MIDWEST PROGRAM IS AS STRONG AS THE IRON & STEEL ITSELF.

Midwest will work with you and your team to co-develop a customized dust control program especially designed for iron and steel mill roads and your needs. Since Midwest does not rely solely upon products, but instead relies on a program based on both product and application strategy, critical knowledge is gathered in order to understand traffic flows, traffic loading, spillage, track-on and contamination sources. This is done during our initial site evaluation and continues throughout the program.

Your program is co-developed to eliminate the costs of watering, grading and repair; improve the road running surface (no potholes or washboarding); improve the health and safety of employees; and maintain air quality compliance. All of this translates into greater productivity.

In one example, Midwest worked with one of the largest steel producers in the United States to save nearly half a million dollars, directly improving its bottom line while reducing dust by 90%. All this translates to a lower cost per square foot.

Go from “dust problem” to “dust control solution” with Midwest. Your operational reality is that massive clouds of dust around your huge network of roads damages equipment, undermines production and negatively affects employee morale. Whether it’s employees or contractors, you’re paying someone to replace, repair and clean equipment and parts. That means they aren’t producing salable goods and that means you are diverting equipment and manpower to unproductive efforts.

Together with Midwest, you can change that reality — in order to control dust, control investments in time and money for watering and repair; and control the structural integrity of your steel and iron mill roads and lots.

In addition, Midwest science has created products that are environmentally friendly, sourced from sustainably produced materials and fully compliant.

You choose the way to collaborate with Midwest, based on your needs.

COMPREHENSIVE MANAGED SERVICE PROGRAM

A full program, rather than reliance on product alone, in which Midwest co-develops a plan and provides application services as well as monitoring.

CUSTOMIZED SELF-APPLICATION PROGRAM

Midwest co-develops a program with you, and you use your own personnel and equipment for application.

DUST CONTROL ENGINEERING AND COMPLIANCE SERVICES

Midwest uses engineering, science-based models to confirm, document and prove levels of compliance.

MIDWEST DOESN’T JUST SAY IT, MIDWEST PROVES IT!

Dust control is now down to a science.

Midwest is the ONLY solution to provide measurable evidence of compliance and control, satisfying the stringent Title IV permits for controlled dust levels. Midwest’s advanced, science-based Environmental Engineering & Compliance Services (EE&CS) document and prove compliance and control levels. The Midwest Dust Control Engineering staff performs in field site mapping (CAD), traffic pattern analysis, silt load sampling and analysis and Visual Emission Observations (VEOs) for a final annual report of Title IV compliance.

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