MAYVIL CLEANS UP ON DEFENCE CONTACTS • Industrial chemical cleaning
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manufacturers Mayvil Chemicals has been awarded a series of prestige Ministry of Defence contracts to supply chemical cleaning materials for a variety of applications. This follows more than 10 years' persistent dialogue by codirectors of the Sandbach company, Jack Harrison and John Rowse11.
Harrison explained: "We have been awarded contracts to MoD specification, the first time chemical clearing material of this nature has been purchased to this requirement.
"The MoD definition is for a pressure washing, low-foam, bio-degradable chemical cleaning agent," he said. "We have met that objective."
The brief to Mayvil was to provide a safe cleaning formula which could be adapted for a diverse range of functions, but with certain exacting limitations. Previously, the Minis
try had been using a variety of non-specific cleaning materials with pressure cleaning equipment.
After MoD officials decided to standardise and specify the quality of cleaning materials, the chemicals company implemented an intensive quality assurance programme to meet the MoD specification. Of all of the companies which tendered for the defence contract, Mayvil was the only one to meet the Minstry's requirements.
According to John Rowse his company's product is likely to replace all cleaning and degreasing agents used by all three armed forces in pressure equipment.
"Literally tens of thousands of MoD vehicles are involved, and because of the in-built safety factors this is expected to include all ground-support vehicles. We see no reason why this cannot eventually cover more cleaning operations within the services," says RowseIl.