Business View Magazine | September 2019

55 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 800.432.5810 info@goBDC.com | www.goBDC.com BDC represents and distributes only the best combustion equipment and control devices available in the market, but we are so much more than a place where you get the parts to keep your plant process equipment running. That’s why we built a company that is unusually well equipped to provide and support complete solutions to your plant operation needs, both thermal and non-thermal in nature. n Burners & Accessories n Process Controls & Sensors n Valves & Actuators n Field Input Devices n Flow Meters and Accessories n Earthquake and Vibration Isolation Devices n 24/7/365 hotline n Diagnostics n Calibration n Inspections n Emergency Repair n Maintenance/ Field Service n Refurbishing Equipment n Seismic Restraints For more information, call, email, or visit us online: Our products and services include: and had it back in operation in about 28 days – including modifications. The outcome could have been devastating if the equipment wasn’t up to such high quality standards. The engineers of that company were singing the praises of Gillespie & Powers for the design of that furnace. “The maintenance and construction side of the business has been going great guns,” says Marsh. “We’ve had almost 300 people in the field for 12 months solid – doing repairs, maintenance, modifications, realigns of existing equipment all over the United States. When it comes to new equipment, from the time I start talking to a customer to the time they place an order is usually 18 to 24 months, so a lot can change during that time with regards to tariffs, and domestic and international trade agreements.” As for technological advancements, there are some new burner designs for furnaces but most of the new technology is in the monitoring and the programming. Marsh attests, “We do that as part of the furnace builds, as well, because the industry is going to what they call ‘Aluminum 4.0’– like digital mirrors – trying to automate the equipment to increase the throughput and the yield with less human intervention. That’s a challenge for us because it requires more monitoring than the old-style furnaces. On an environmental front, our equipment, in particular our de-lacquering equipment and this new CSM (coded scrap melter), they’re all designed to volatize the organic compounds, so they don’t get released to the atmosphere. I tell people, we were actually ‘green’ before green was a thing, because we build these waste incinerators and we’ve built this de-lacquering equipment for going on 30 years. It takes the paint and printing off of a soda can, for example, and removes it, volatizes it, and leaves you with no hazardous emissions. By removing all that before you re- melt the aluminum, you get a higher yield, so there’s less waste going to the landfill from the re-melt process. We sell that equipment, mostly, to secondary aluminum processing companies.”