OIL CLEANING BIO-PRODUCTS LTD.
PRESS RELEASE
OCBP LTD. LAUNCHES THE "HEG" RANGE OF BIO-CLEANSERS AND ABSORBENTS IN AVIATION MARKETS
Wednesday April 18th. 1996Oil Cleaning Bio-Products Ltd. is launching in the Aircraft Engineering, Aviation and Airport markets its innovative "Heg" range of highly efficient bacterial oil cleansers, degreasers, absorbents and bioremediation agents. Each of these products, in different ways, will greatly enhance safe and environmentally friendly operations in aircraft engineering, construction and repair workshops, aircraft ground movements and refuelling, and airport maintenance. In particular, the products can deal effectively and simply with spills of oils, aviation fuel and anti-freeze on hard surfaces, with degreasing and parts washing, with aircraft and general airport cleaning, with oil in site drainage systems and with contaminated land. Two of the products also act as fire retardants.
Commenting on the scope for the "Heg" products in the Aviation sector, OCBP's Managing Director Richard Genochio said: "The success of the products in other sectors suggests that aircraft manufacturers, airlines and airports - which already work to very high standards of environmental control - also have much to gain from the use of effective and biodegradable materials. Unlike so many widely used, harsh, toxic and non-biodegradable products, the "Heg" products are themselves safe to use and enable users to deal on site with problems of contamination, rather than merely pass them on to the drainage system, to the atmosphere - or to specialist waste contractors." On the regulatory regime facing the industry he added: "The standards to which operators aspire have become steadily more demanding. The "Heg" products will enable the Aviation industry to cope better with current problems and to achieve tomorrow's standards today."
NOTES FOR EDITORS
1) The naturally occurring bacteria in the "Heg" products have been specially selected for their ability to break down a wide variety of hydrocarbon molecules so that captured oily wastes can be decomposed to their harmless constituents - on site if this is required. The bacteria come in the media of i) a biodegradable surfactant, ii) a biodegradable water-based non-chlorinated solvent and iii) biodegradable and non-abrasive plant-based absorbents. The liquids are very effective cleansers and degreasers, which also enable bacteria to function and thus provide a biodegradable run-off. Oil emulsified or solubilised in the cleaning stage will separate out subsequently to enable it to be collected from the surface if this is required. The absorbents variously provide a non-slip floors, reduce VOCs, take oil off water, can be placed in drainage systems and interceptors to reduce hydrocarbon loading or around drainage points to keep oil out and can remediate contaminated land.2) The "Heg" range of products consists of: Hegol (oil degrading bacteria added to a biodegradable surfactant, used for the removal of oil from concrete and from metallic and other hard surfaces, for vehicle/aircraft washing, for kitchen and lavatory drains and odour control, and for general commercial cleaning); Hegsolv (oil degrading bacteria added to a biodegradable and non-corrosive water-based solvent with rust inhibitor, used for degreasing, heavy-duty cleansing, as a parts washing liquid and to prepare surfaces for painting); Hegrem (oil-trapping absorbent made from biodegradable plant fibres with oil degrading bacteria, used loose for bioremediation of contaminated land or in sock form to float in interceptors and remove and destroy hydrocarbons); Hegfloor (similar to Hegrem and therefore non-abrasive, but fewer bacteria and almost dust free - used loose as a premium absorbent for oil and fuel spilled on hard surfaces); and Hegsorb (biodegradable specially treated plant fibres which absorb and trap oil spilled in water - also used in pillow or boom form to remove oil from interceptors and to protect drainage points).
3) OCBP Ltd. is the exclusive world-wide distributor of "Heg" products. A brochure about the "Heg" products is enclosed. For further information contact OCBP Ltd., PO Box 46, Royston, Herts. SG8 9PD, England; tel. (+44) (0) 1763 287749.