Elite Pipeline Services faced an interesting challenge about four years ago when a longtime customer — a nuclear power plant operator — asked the pipe cleaning and repair company if it could scour out and line a roughly 50-foot-long section of 3-inch-diameter pipe without using any water.
“They didn’t want us to use water in this particular pipeline because it would generate a lot of radioactive contamination that’s difficult — as well as very expensive — to clean up,” explains Carl Beitner, operations manager of the company, based in Allendale, Michigan.
The solution? The TCM-3000 Little WIZARD drain cleaning machine, which scrapes
