SSI - Getting Social

Our SSI team has been working hard to find a way to stay social. Staying up to date in a social world can be difficult as a manufacturing company. We produce Water Intake Products, not the ideal social climate for twitter and the like.

However, working with traveling water screens, trash rakes and bar racks you come to find that there is a demand for these products at every water intake system. But to get your message out there you have to be a bit more creative. That's why SSI decided to follow the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. While Water Intake Screens for nuclear, power and paper plants are not the number one focus of the EPA, the EPA has quickly become a focus of SSI's. Thanks to 316b, a section of the Clean Water Act, we have been able to expand our product line to include Fish Handling Screens for these intake systems. SSI is taking steps to help plants become more Eco-friendly to the bodies of water surrounding them. Once the final ruling comes down we will be able to assist plants with their new need to be up to code!

In the meantime, only a few plants are transferring over to the SSI "Fish-friendly" screens, because the ruling has been postponed until June 2013, and our focus can remain on dual-flow screens, thru-flow screens, trash rakes and other intake products. For those of you who do not know what these products are, dual-flow screens, like thru-flow screens filter some of the finer debris out of a plant's water intake systems'. This ensures that the plant doesn't take in the grass, mud, fish, leaves or other debris that could damage the intake. Some plant managers choose to have fine mesh paneling line the baskets of the screens in order to prevent smaller objects from getting into the intake, although that is less common because it can also cause a build up of debris. Meanwhile, trash rakes remove large debris such as fallen trees or limbs, and trash. SSI's most recent monorail overhead trash rake was able to easily lift 2,000 pounds in our test run. While this process needs to be manually operated it can still provide a quick and easy way to keep an intake system clear for the plant.

With such a niche market the SSI team has had to become more creative. We can look at our intake products as just that - intake equipment or we can chose to see the effect well made equipment can have on a plant and the surrounding environment and community. We chose to develop new products and perfect our existing products so that we will have something to talk about. We are developing not only for us but for our customers who have new demands but who still need quality. 

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