Complete textile service saving water and power

When somebody saves until seven million litres of diesel to the year through the recovery of the heat and is able to cover a big part of his energetic needs by means of the reuse of the agents contaminantes extracted in the processes of wash, is that it carries long meditando on how employ the power of efficient form. “Really it is like this!”, it confirms Ulrich Schmidt, director of the department of Technician and Production of the group Mewa. “We work acutely to be able to achieve the best of the results protecting the resources of the best possible way, that is to say, employing the lower quantity of power, water or detergents”. Successfully, because Mewa, thanks to his own technical developments in the waste treatment water and of harmful gases, has contributed to improve continuously the state of these technicians.

Mewa Offers to the customers of the sectors of industry, manufacturas and trade, textile products with a complete service in 19 European countries. Mewa Advises to the customers on which are the most suitable products, provides the basic equipment and “concern us that these products remain clean and in good condition”, says Ulrich Schmidt. With some annual figures of 822 million cloths of cleaning, clothes of work for roughly 900.000 people and 1,8 million mats, that Mewa collects, lava, dry and gives back clean to his customers, can say that the volume of work is considerable. According to Ulrich Schmidt: “A family of four members washes around a tonne of clothes to the year in his domestic washing machine. The services of wash of our companies reach around 313 tonnes to the day”. However, in comparison, Mewa consumes a lot of less water in the wash that the domestic field. Thanks to a system of recycling of the water employed in the wash and cleared, the technician in waterfall, can save until 50% of water in relation with processes of traditional wash. Besides, in the last turn of the cleared filters water still aprovechable that it will be treated and used in back processes of wash.

Does time that in the company transforms the dirty water, loaded of oils, fats, inks and dissolvent, in water with a degree of cleaning of 99,8%, offering like this a greater cleaning that the requested by the municipal requirements. The physical treatment-previous chemist deletes of the waste water the greater quantity of dirt and of harmful substances. In the phase of biological cleaning, with the help of bacteria decomposes the load of dirt that has dissolved and remains in the water. Thanks to this continuous optimisation of the technicians used in the procedures and for the protection of the environingingment reduces constantly the damage caused to the surroundings.

Already in 1975 installed the first plant of waste treatment water conceived by Mewa. Like this, when in Germany began to develop a change of opinion and grew the worry by the environingingment, Mewa did time since it had done his duties. ‘The destined investment to the environingingment is equivalent to the destined investment to the expansion' was the lemma of the steering of the company. Like this, then , it developed , of fast and intensive form, the internal technical knowledge: the majority of the installations of procedures and allocated to the protection of the existent environingingment in the companies, like chains of wash, secadoras, chains of control of quality, installations for waste water and combustion of oils used, are own improvements or installations developed with the knowledge of Mewa by constructors known.

The procedure of wash realises with detergents and other products of biodegradable cleaning, using for this minimum quantities. “In all our installations works with an automatic gestión of the processes. We do not leave at random the composition or the quantities of the detergents that are necessary to obtain an optimum cleaning. We work with practical data, checked and documented”, says Ulrich Schmidt. In front of procedures of traditional cleaning this means a reduction of until 85% in the damage to the environingingment.

Recovering in several stages the heat of the washing machinees and secadoras by means of exchangers of heat, reduce notably the consumption of necessary power to heat the water and the installations of the company. Of this way, Mewa saves to the considerable year quantities of diesel. Through the recycling of agents contaminantes extracted of the processes of wash —mainly, oils that find in the cloths of cleaning— Mewa covers until 80% of the power that needs for the chains of wash and dried in the treatment of the cloths of cleaning. By ecological reasons, the boilers of necessary steam for this are instrumented with cameras of combustion of high temperatures and debuggers of gases. The harmful gases of exit subject first to a thorough clean. This aprovechamiento thermal sensors of oils used saves primary power.

This positive attitude in front of the environingingment has a long tradition. It begins with the introduction of the product with greater tradition in Mewa: the cloth of cleaning. According to Ulrich Schmidt: “Our cloths can be washed until fifty times and go back to use again. By the contrary, the cloths of paper or the textile cloths go to stop to the rubbish after an only use”. If it did not exist the system of cloths of Mewa and only could use material desechables, would increase considerably the volume of undone dangerous.

complete Service of Mewa

Mewa, founded in 1908 in Sajonia, works today in 42 emplazamientos along all Europe. The company offers, with a complete service, clothes of work and labour hygiene, cloths of textile cleaning, as well as absorbent mats for fats and felpudos. 4.300 employees occupy of more than 160.000 pertaining customers to the sectors of the industry, the trade, the manufactura and the hospitality industry.