It’s hard to believe that the world is throwing away entire fouled pipelines

Fouled industrial pipelines are a total nightmare. As the pressure rises, energy consumption skyrockets, and the whole production needs to be stopped in order to clean up the clogged pipe as fast as possible. For heat exchangers alone, fouling costs amount to $123 billion in the world’s ten largest economies.

Altum COO Bo Malmberg and CEO Matias Tainela ran a company that imported different sonic and ultrasonic cleantech solutions to clean fouling in industrial equipment. Their customers often asked, “Do you have a product that can clean our fouled equipment with ultrasound without the need to stop production?”. They looked all over the world a solution that could do this — but found nothing. All the ultrasound technologies out there were just too weak. Now, they are building this solution.