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Rizhao Port in Lanshan is a large shipping port for bulk cargo in China’s Shandong province. It is in the Yellow Sea halfway between Rizhao and Lianyungang and next to Haizhou Bay.
Day after day, countless trucks distribute the freight arriving here to all of China. The bulk goods stored on the port area often cause the wheels and chassis of the vehicles to become heavily soiled, which leads to constant contamination of the public roads around the port.

The MobyDick wheel washing systems from FRUTIGER are also available for rent. Recently, FRUTIGER delivered a wheel washing system from its in-house rental park for the Czech Republic. A new leisure area is currently being built on the site of a former landfill near Prague. Before anything new can be built here, hard work has to be done, which causes major pollution problems. To solve the problem, the customer rented a MobyDick ConLine KIT Flex 400MC wheel washing system. This system is mobile and can be moved to another location at any time, depending on the workflow. Here, the fully automatic system washes the dirty wheels of about 30-70 trucks per day.

FRUTIGER recently installed the third MobyDick wheel washing system for a customer near the legendary Wembley Football Stadium. The mobile system of the type KIT Flex Mobile B not only keeps the public roads clean, but also the on-site weighbridge, which was directly attached to the wheel washing system.

The Swiss canton of Ticino is known for its many hours of sunshine and Mediterranean flair. It is therefore also known as the “Côte d’Azur” of Switzerland. Dirty roads can spoil this image and are undesirable to the population, the authorities and tourists. For this reason, responsible contractors in Ticino also rely on MobyDick wheel washing systems, which reliably clean the wheels of trucks before they leave a polluted area (e.g. construction site, landfill, etc.). In addition to large-scale systems, the MobyDick product portfolio also includes small, inexpensive systems that can be installed quickly. One example is the MobyDick Dragon (see picture) which was recently installed near Lugano. This wheel washing system is used wherever the pollution is low or the problem is dust. The Dragon is capable of handling up to 100 vehicles per day and offers an excellent price/performance ratio.

This year the traditional Chinese New Year Festival “Chunjie“ is on February 1st. The date changes every year because it is decided by the Chinese lunar calendar. Chinese New Year is on a new moon day, usually the second after the winter solstice. The Frutiger factory in China is already decorated for the celebration. The tradition is to hang up red lanterns, paste Spring Festival couplets around the doors and also put the character “fu” on the windows, wishing everyone good luck and happiness in the New Year!

The Koelliken Hazardous Waste Landfill (SMDK) is a landfill for hazardous waste in the Swiss municipality of Koelliken that was operated from 1978 to 1985. After the landfill was closed in 1985, it was discovered that the toxic substances, which were mainly deposited in drums, could not simply remain in the soil.
The landfill was therefore to be dismantled from 2002 onwards. In January 2005, the overall clean-up finally began. A total of 664,100 tonnes of material had to be removed. To avoid noise and odour pollution during the dismantling process, the largest hall in Switzerland was built above the former landfill. To avoid excessive pollution of the roads, a customised MobyDick wheel washing system was used in the hall.
From mid-April 2018, the hall was dismantled, and the pit is now being continuously filled with construction waste and soil. As this has also changed the requirements for the wheel washing system, the operator recently decided to invest in a new MobyDick wheel washing system with improved cleaning capacity. The new MobyDick has now recently been successfully commissioned and will continue to ensure clean and safe roads in the future.

Shortly before the end of the year, FRUTIGER delivered and set up a very powerful MobyDick ONE 1000 wheel washing system for one of the oldest family-owned companies in the German building materials industry. Equipped with the “Powerflush” option with two special nozzles, a thorough mudguard wash with 900l/min per nozzle is possible in addition to an intensive cleaning of the wheels and the underbody. The electronics and the flocculant dosing system of this large system are housed in a special fully insulated and heated container and are thus perfectly protected for winter operation. The installed safety railing for the recycling tank provides additional personal protection in the vicinity of the recycling tanks. The 1000 cm long system is also equipped with the drip pad option, which collects the dirty water and feeds it back into the recycling tanks. This minimises water loss and prevents fines from being carried out onto public roads. The company, which produces high-quality and efficient building materials, now starts the new year with clean streets and happy neighbours.

For one of the largest manufacturers of drywall materials in the world, FRUTIGER has already installed a number of wheel washing systems at several locations in different countries. This November, FRUTIGER completed the installation of a MobyDick ConLine KIT Plus 600B-100P wheel washing system in Latvia for the company. The MobyDick system is located in the company’s own quarry and is equipped with a heating system that enables smooth operation even during severe winter periods. The system now washes around 140 trucks per day with wheels, that are soiled with highly sticky gypsum. The system was installed a few days ago and handed over to the satisfied customer, who from now on enjoys the clean roads around the quarry.

In summer, the cleaning of construction vehicles leaving the construction sites still plays a subordinate role in some cases. If the weather stays dry, excessive soiling of the roads can be controlled to a certain extent with occasional cleaning by a sweeper truck. However, when the rains increase in autumn, the area around the construction site becomes more and more polluted, which is usually accompanied by increasing complaints from the neighbourhood. Dirty roads also pose a considerable risk to all road users due to the increased risk of slipping. In such situations, a mobile wheel washing system can quickly improve the situation and prevent high costs due to the continuous use of a sweeper truck. For such cases, FRUTIGER maintains a large rental fleet of mobile wheel washing systems of the MobyDick brand in Europe and the USA. The model shown is a ConLine KIT Flex Mobile C wheel washing system that was recently commissioned in England and can clean the wheels of up to 120 trucks per day as they pass through.