Expert Insights Archive - DuBois Chemicals

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 Foaming in cooling water can occur rapidly without obvious cause and is not always predictable by routine system monitoring. A small amount of foam...

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...

All Insights Diligence and Deposits: Characteristics of Food Soils and Films

When manufacturing food or beverages, safety and cleanliness are top priorities. Diligence is required to ensure equipment and materials follow all regulations and guidelines. Ignoring these standards can result in food soil or film on...

All Insights Perfecting Your Zinc Phosphate Line

Problems in your phosphate line can lead to issues in your operations. Stop them before they lead to trouble by keeping these three cures in your back pocket. Spotty Parts These two dreaded words sum...

All Insights Adding Inhibitors to Glycol

Glycol-based heat transfer fluids are used in many HVAC, industrial, and commercial closed loop systems to offer both freeze protection and heat transfer properties. To guarantee the best performance of the glycol system, additives are...