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KASELCO
A Division of Kaspar Electroplating

 

2" Reactor plastic at CNC router

Coil Bay. All sheet metal enclosures, etc, begin here.

We make our own sheet metal from coils as needed

One of a few CNC multi-tool turrent punches. Mini-Package and other enclosures begin their forming journey here.

KASELCO is a division of Kaspar Electroplating, Incorporated.  We are located on the primary grounds of the KASPAR companies in Shiner, Texas, (between Houston and San Antonio).

 

KASELCO's first electrocoagulation system was installed at our own Kaspar Electroplating Company in 1996. This 100 GPM system uses four 25 GPM reactors and operates every business day. Our first commercial unit was installed in January, 1997 and is still in operation in Houston.

 

Most of our installations are in the U.S.  Others are in Canada, Mexico, South Africa and China.  We are very proud of our success record.  When we say a system will work in a certain way, we mean it and we make it so.

 

EnviroTech International Group (ETIG) is our sister-company in Beijing, China.  Customers using our systems there are at the forefront of the environmental revolution taking place in China.

 

KASELCO is supported by the skills and equipment of her own staff, her sister companies, and outside consultants as needed:

  • In-house skills include design and drafting; structural and sheet metal forming and fabrication; welding and machining; controls and electrical design and assembly; reactor component manufacturing; systems assembly and testing.

  • In-house equipment and processes include the welders, drill presses, shears, brakes, mills, lathes, and a variety of CNC machines like plasma cutting tables; 60” high-speed punches, the largest with a 72-tool head; large-platform mills that produce our reactor components; and so on.

  • In-house finishing:  Many of the parts manufactured for our KASELCO units are wet painted, powder coated, vinyl coated, zinc plated, epoxy-coated or electro-polished. We do all of that right here.

  • Outside consultants for specialty work such as reviewing our designs to ensure compliance with UL, NEC and Canadian electrical standards.

Customer support and R&D:  We operate and maintain our own R&D and customer waste evaluation laboratory.  It is complete with bench-scale systems and analytical equipment including atomic absorption.   We work with universities to forward our understanding of electrochemistry (and support the success of Ph.D. students).  This ensures that we apply the science to advance KASELCO technology, and that we apply EC to the right applications.  Since we have our own source of tough wastewater to work with, we can execute larger scale trials.  With our extensive manufacturing capacity, we can fabricate our good ideas and try them easily.
 

Beginnings

Kaspar Wire Works has been in operation since 1898.  Since then the entrepreneurial Kaspar family has built a complex of manufacturing companies that is the largest employer in six counties.

Kaspar Electroplating Corporation (KEC), which has been in operation since 1962, is our parent company.  KEC was treating their wastewater with chemical precipitation for many years. In 1995 they began to evaluate electrocoagulation as an alternative to chemical precipitation. The motivation, of course, was money. Kaspar Electroplating wanted to reduce or eliminate the monthly chemical costs.

After disappointing results of a vendor's EC system, the KASELCO engineers installed their own reactor design.  Refinements led to a working reactor that was effective, efficient, and easily serviced.  This first system was a 4-reactor 100GPM plant.  KEC has been using EC successfully since that time.

Our first commercial EC system was sold to an electroplating shop in Houston in February, 1997. It has been in continuous operation since then, and is available for your inspection.

  

Success

Backed by the employees of the Kaspar manufacturing complex in Shiner, Texas, KASELCO is becoming world renown as the leader in treating waste water streams using electrocoagulation.  We have a few dozen units in the field, including overseas, and many companies will allow on-site visits for potential customers.

We started by developing the technology to treat the 100 GPM combined waste water discharge from various plating lines operated by our parent company, Kaspar Electroplating.  Since 1996, extensive research and development and thoughtful design and engineering has resulted in the reliable reactor configuration and user-friendly systems for which we are becoming famous.

We continue R&D out of our commitment to reliable and efficient systems. We use our own plating and other waste waters to define variations that are aimed at specific wastes, and we are engaged in lab and field pilots to prove even more areas.

Several technical papers on the principles and application of electro-coagulation have been presented and published by our technical staff. We collaborate with the researchers in universities, such as Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, and  Texas A&M.  Some of those papers are available in the "Library" for downloading if you would like to learn more.

Our customers are amazed at the simplicity of KASELCO systems, the ease of operation, and the ease of maintenance.  Everyone loves the cost savings resulting from reduced chemical purchases, reduced operator involvement, and reduced solid waste generation over chemical precipitation methods.
 

Key People

First, we want to honor Paul Morkovsky.  This is a name with whom anyone in the EC research and application business is familiar.  It is his brilliant ideas that has our technology be so effective.  He is a chemical engineer, now retired with 43+ years of accomplishments.  He consults us in our continued R&D.  His commitment to balancing responsible economic business operation and excellent pollution prevention systems is what got the Kaspar Companies into this business.  His successful pollution prevention programs, in addition to the various benefits of the KASELCO EC system in our own facility, combined to earn Kaspar Companies the Texas Environmental Excellence Award for 1998.

Douglas Kaspar, 4th-generation owner, is President.  He has been with the Kaspar companies his entire professional career after attaining a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.  Doug's vision as well has his engineering expertise stimulated the development of the technology and the development of the commercial units.  His business background supports the development of new markets such as our exciting involvement in China.

Jim Beckman, General Manager, brings a balance of business expertise and system and equipment design experience.  In a former career, Jim specialized in small power production, and since 1988 has focused on environmental work including industrial and hazardous waste management and industrial wastewater treatment.  He has been in the service business and the engineering, design and manufacturing business.

Jaime Bazan has been the KASELCO laboratory technician for a number of years.  He is adept at executing lab-scale evaluations of candidate waste streams, and has operated pilot demonstrations at customer plants.  He has been involved in system startups and customer training.

Trish "Radar" Longoria is the Customer Service Representative and serves as company clerk.  She keeps everyone's units running with spare parts when needed.  Without her we wouldn't know where anything is.

Edwin Ulcak  He is involved in many day-to-day productions, as well as in-house pilot trials of our next "good ideas".   He has installed and commissioned several of our installations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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World-Class Systems,

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