Almost three years ago, Zac Cudney from Texas-based Evergreen Industrial Services started searching for hands-free hydroblasting technology that was compact, mobile, efficient and powerful enough to handle difficult cleaning challenges in oil refineries and petrochemical plants.
After working with engineers at NLB Corp. for eight months, a solution emerged: The Micro-ARM (which stands for automated remote manipulator), a robotic hydro blaster that has dramatically boosted employee safety and productivity at Evergreen. The company now owns three of the highly portable Micro-ARMs and plans to order more. The units are used to clean everything from machines to tube bundles in heat exchangers.
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