Tankclean-up in pipeline
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• Tanker group Tankfreight is expanding its Tankclean network with a 2300,000 investment in two cleaning centres in Manchester and Felixstowe which will be open to all tanker operators. This brings the total of Tankclean depots to seven.
Half the money has been used to build a new depot at Felixstowe with two washing bays. The Urmston, Manchester facilities have been upgraded from two bays to six.
The investment is part of Tankclean's drive to "seal a gap" in the tanker cleaning market. The division was set up as the internal cleaning section of Tankfreight, but opened to the rest of the industry soon after. At present, it is the only national network of cleaning stations.
Tankclean, part of the National Freight Consortium, wants all tanker operators to be compelled to clean their vehicles between loads. Under present law tankers need not be washed — even if they change products. It also wants its centres endorsed by the British Standards Institution, the regulating body for many commercial services. Tanker cleaning facilities do not come within the body's remit.
Tankclean runs other depots in Greenwich, Purfleet, South ampton and Widnes, with another centre in the pipeline. Each is equipped with washing spinners, driers, and steam coil heating.