About Us

Evaporation Including Falling Film, MVR, WFE, SPE, Crystallization Systems

If you need an evaporator manufactured, we have the expertise and resources to fulfill your requirements.  Through our strategic alliances with major proprietary evaporation equipment manufacturers and fabrication companies, we have a team of engineers with over 100 years of combined experience directly related to consultatively determining the best technical and economic fit for our clients' applications.  We will consult with you to determine the best possible options and will not hesitate to redirect you to a better provider if our experience is not relevant.  We have implemented systems across the globe, from pilot scale through many ton per hour production scale.  The scope of supply that we provide includes component as well as skid mounted systems.  Our systems provide workable solutions for complex evaporation processes.  All of our evaporation systems and fabricated components are made custom to match the client goals.  We can provide a custom solution to solve a problem requiring anything from a simple single effect forced circulation or falling film evaporation system, to a multiple effect system with an agitated thin film reboiler and fractional distillation column.  Our low overhead enables us to provide a very cost effective solution. 

We routinely exceed our clients’ expectations in determining the best solutions to match their goals, in designing their systems, in fabricating the appropriate solution, and then ultimately in helping to oversee the installation, start up, and maintenance.  We also provide fabrication only capabilities for clients who already have a design and need a knowledgeable and appropriately equipped shop to competitively deliver fabricated tanks, columns, falling film effects, agitated thin and wiped film evaporators and piping trains.

We are competitively priced, and with shops around the world, we deliver on time, every time whether delivery is to Houston, Sydney, Germany, Indonesia, or India.

Granulation Including Basket Extrusion, Pelleting, and Spheronization

Our combined 59 plus years of direct hands-on experience solving wet low pressure extrusion and medium to high densification pelleting problems for granulation clients enable us to provide system and processing solutions for both Industrial and Pharmaceutical applications areas.  We provide expertise in a very broad range of mixing, wet short path, or low pressure extrusion through high pressure pelleting application areas, along with the appropriate peripherals to compliment these primary technologies.   Spray drying continues to grow in importance for our diverse clientelle where we match your requirements with standard laboratory through full custom productions systems.  Other capabilities include: milling, spheronization, drying, coating and formulation development.  Our test centers are used to develop formulations and applicational solutions and to confirm these results in scale up in order to insure that we are providing the appropriate process solution.

Microencapsulation and Microspheres

 Our design team, manufacturing, and contract manufacturing offers granulators working according to the principles of patented microsphere and microencapsulation processes. The machinery is developed, designed and manufactured from laboratory scale desktop systems, through production unit operations with more than 10,000 l/hr throughput. We also manufacture several additional accessory technologies that compliment the microencapsulation and microsphere forming systems. Rotating drum sieving machines and vibrating sorting tables are used to sort different sized materials and separate spherical from nonspherical particles. Both systems are suitable for high throughput. For sensitive products a drying process has to keep a low delta temperature and minimize the physical stress to avoid deforming or breakup of sensitive particles. For both necessities, our drum dryers have been developed. For incubation or fusion our heating chambers can be used.

Toll Processing

For each of our evaporation, granulation, and microencapsulation technology areas we support development and short as well as long term toll production capabilities for our clients' products with facilities and teams which can provide toll processing to meet your requirements.

Toll Distillation: 

We provide short path or molecular distillation toll processing services for applications as diverse as omega 3 fatty acids to isocyanates.  Beginning with a free laboratory trial, progressing through pilot trials, we derive the appropriate process to meet your purity and quality requirements.  Toll distillation using our molecular or short path distillation technologies for single kilogram through multiple tank truck through campaigns.

Granulation, Microencapsulation, Microspheres:

We provide free laboratory evaluations where we can determine which of our granulation technologies are most appropriate to implement for pilot and production scale.  We provide contract development and formulation development when basic lab and pilot studies are insufficient.  Both GMP and industrial facilities are available to match the requirements for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, agricultural, nuclear, chemical process industry, oil and gas industry needs.

ACWA Clear, Inc. with Vobis, LLC specializes in providing comprehensive temporary and permanent solutions to a wide range of water treatment needs. Whether the problem is Sediment, Hydrocarbons, Bacteria, Organics, Metals, or any combination thereof, ACWA Clear, Inc. provides clients with a single source for the best and most cost effective solutions to their water problems.

We provide Water treatment equipment rentals, Polymer treatment systems for stormwater and Oil water separator rentals. ACWA is a leader in Chitosan and polymer enhanced sand filtration. We design, install and monitor treatment systems for storm water, groundwater and construction dewatering needs.

With a proven track record of providing temporary water treatment systems on an emergency and rapid response basis with flows ranging from 25 to 3,600 GPM deliverable across the United States and Canada, we are uniquely capable of implementing water remediation and water treatment solutions to first temporarily solve your water treatment requirements and then install a permanent water treatment system..

For emergency water treatment and water remediation requirements, with one phone call our clients receive a Total Water Treatment Solution that includes pumps, pipes, storage and treatment all configured, mobilized, monitored and demobilized by our trained personnel.

Services

Our services are designed to exceed our clients' expectations.  They range from complete fabrication facilities and capabilities to complete system solution manufacturing to toll processing for our evaporation, drying, distillation, crystallization, spray drying, microencapsulation, and pelletization technology programs.  We are able to offer excellent technology solutions at very competitive prices by maintaining a limited number of very experienced staff members.

Clients who require fabrication for ASME and ISO approved shops, provide detailed drawings of their required equipment, ready for our fabrication quote, and upon realization of an order, we fabricate at our shops in North America, Europe, or Asia. 

Those clients who provide a preliminary idea, concept, or problem for which we consult and utilize our extensive experience to reduce client risk by determining the appropriate process solution, testing to confirm qualitative and quantitative expectations, and then design, manufacture and install complete systems.

Working with clients on every continent requires a wide range of capabilities.  We strive to always exceed client expectations and to continually reduce their risks by helping to identify and implement the most cost effective and the best technical fit solutions.

Our Services include:

-Initial free telephone or internet consultation
-Initial free bench level tests
-Pilot testing capabilities to quantitatively confirm initial technical expectations
-Engineering studies when required to forward technical or decision making processes
-Toll processing short and long term
-Detailed quotes for budgetary and procurement requirements
-Fabrication and construction of the individual components or the entire system
-Manuals and technical support for system installation, start up and operation
-Long term service and parts support to ensure operability