Expert Insights Archive - DuBois Chemicals

All Insights A Guide to Waterside Inspections

Performing regular waterside inspections of your critical system equipment is an important part of a successful preventative maintenance program. When weather gets colder, many systems may be temporarily shut down, providing the perfect opportunity for...

All Insights 5 Reasons to Filter Cooling Tower Water

In hard times, it can be easy to overlook preventative maintenance items. However, your cooling tower’s filtration system is its first line of defense against many issues. Without filtration, the buildup of airborne dirt and...

All Insights Acid Wetters, Acid Inhibitors, and the Pretreatment Process

Pretreatment is where it all begins. When electroplating ferrous substrates, it is vital to start with a strong start to ensure success throughout the process. Pretreatment The pretreatment process is the foundation to the success...

All Insights What’s Flowing: A Viscosity Q & A

VISCOSITY: The state of being thick, sticky, and semifluid in consistency, due to internal friction. A lubricant’s viscosity is generally considered one of its most important properties, and with good reason. If the viscosity of...

All Insights Why Is There Foam in My Cooling Water?

Cooling water plays a vital role in transferring heat away from mission-critical equipment and processes. This includes manufacturing, cold storage, and air conditioning. Foaming in cooling water can occur rapidly without obvious cause and is...

All Insights Tips to Overcome the Confusion and Trials of “Institutional Knowledge”

Institutional Knowledge is any unwritten information that is not commonly known by others within a company. This term refers to the information others need to know to produce a quality product or service. Institutional knowledge is...

All Insights Alkaline Zinc: Ensuring a Bright Solution without Sacrifice

“Get my alkaline zinc bath brighter” is a common request by customers looking to improve their zinc baths. It is often followed“-and make sure that my bath does not sacrifice efficiency and throughput and continues...

All Insights 4 Tips Every Purchaser Should Know About Water Treatment

Water treatment can be a tricky and nuanced category to purchase for due to the different offerings in the marketplace. On the surface, the costs can seem to add up quickly. Industrial water treatment is...

All Insights All About Stickies and How to Control Them

In the paper and pulp industry, contaminants can significantly impact productivity, the quality of the papermaking final product, and the converting processes of the mill’s customers. One category of contaminants is known as stickies. Stickies...

All Insights Water, Plating Process, and You

In this in-depth article, dive into three types of water and how each of them interact with the plating process. Let’s state the obvious: water plays an integral role in the plating process. Water is...