A paint and coatings plant that produces both cationic paste with pigments and cationic binders without pigments for truck shipment to automotive OEMs was experiencing difficulties when transferring the compounds from mobile tanks to trucks.
In particular, the types of pumps that were being used were incapable of totally draining the pipes, hoses, and mobile tanks used in the process, leading to wasted time and materials, as well as an increase in the probability of leakage occurring.