Summit Industrial Products

P.O. Box 131359

Tyler, TX 75713
1-800-749-5823
CASE STUDY:
Sublime Water Scale Solvent Increases Efficiency and Saves Money at Wisconsin
Paper Mill
In response to decreased operating capacity, a Wisconsin paper mill hired one of Summit
Industrial Products distributors to implement a Sublime cleaning. The mill has 64 Nash
vacuum pumps capable of holding 600-900 gallons of Sublime. The 64 pumps are divided
among 4 lines with each line responsible for removing the wet end of the mill. The
planner provides the information on the product to the line supervisor. The line
supervisor is very important in making the decision for using Sublime on the line.
The cleaning of the remaining four vacuum pumps on line 7 caused a drop of 70 amps
required to run the line. The 70 amps saved due to cleaning the four pumps resulted in a
$1,000/amp per year savings in energy for total savings of $70,000 per year (an average
of $17,500/year for each vacuum pump cleaned). This allows for increased speed of the
line, resulting in increased productivity. The lines cleaned at the Wisconsin paper mill
have set record production numbers. Since the cleaning with Sublime, there has been an
increase in $300,000 per year in revenue from just one line.

A series of four vacuum pumps may be turned by a single motor. This results in shutting
down a line when a vacuum pump becomes frozen due to scale buildup. An estimate of
$18,000 per minute was reported as income lost due to the shutting down of the line. The
removal of the scale from the pump with Sublime eliminates the possibility of the line
shutting down due to scale buildup.