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      • Floating Debris Oil Skimmer
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    • Ash Pond Decanter Surface Skimmer
    • Floating Drum Oil Skimmer
    • Steel Industry Oil Skimmer
    • MiniHAWG and SteelHAWG
    • Sheen-Skimmer
    • Belt Oil Skimmer
    • Big Ass Belt Skimmer
    • Rope Mop Oil Skimmer
    • Tube Oil Skimmer
    • Monitoring Well Oil Skimmer
    • Automatic Weir Oil Skimmer-Separator Smart Skimmer
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    • Slotted Pipe Skimmer - C Pipe Skimmer
    • First Response Oil Skimming Systems
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    • EatsCRAP MSD Bio Supercharger
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    • MarineVAP-Marine Waste Water Evaporator
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    • Air Compressor condensate oil water separator evaporator
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    • High Liquid Level Alarm
    • OilSmart Simplex Panel
    • Elevator OilSmart Pump-Out System
    • Single Phase OilSMART Duplex Panel
    • 15 PPM Oil Content Monitor
    • Oil Water Separator (OWS) Liquid Level Alarm System
    • Heavy Duty Submersible Effluent Pump
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    • Diesel Fuel Purifiers
    • Portable Diesel Tank Cleaning Unit
    • Fuel Tank Recirculating Filter System
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    • WiseASH Cyclonic Burnbarrel
    • Replacement Drums
    • ProBURN
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      • The Bilge Filter
      • Mini Brute OWS
      • 6 Pack HI-FLOW Filter
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      • Industrial Hoses
      • Custom Hose Floats and Manifolds
    • Industrial Pumps >
      • Two and Three Inch Engine Driven Utili
      • Two Inch Engine Driven Solids Handling Pump
      • One Inch Engine Driven Utility Pump
      • AOD Air Operated Diaphragm Pumps
      • Diesel Gas electric Diaphragm Pumps
      • Heavy Duty Submersible Sump Pump
      • OilSmart Pump Switch
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      • Self-Priming Diaphragm Pumps
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Steel Mill Oil Skimmers

Industrial Grade Oil Skimmers for the Steel Industry


The steel mill oil skimming applications are the toughest in the world. The equipment has to be rugged and simple enough to run without any attention or maintenance. There is simply not enough manpower to stay on top of it. It will usually be ignored until it breaks! We have developed specialty skimmers, hardened specifically for the steel industry! Simple and effective skimmers. That’s where we come in! We have a goodly amount of experience and equipment in the steel industry. We know how to match the application to the correct and appropriate technology, which often means: "We’ve already screwed that one up."

In the steel industry, oil in and on water is a constant. Bless these steel guys. By the very nature of their operations, oil gets spilled or leaked regularly, resulting in lots of floating oil and it needs to be removed.

Steel and oil and water — who says they don’t mix?

​In the steel industry, oil in and on water is a constant due to  the very nature of their operations. Steel operations require lots of water. All mills have water storage and treatment problems that go hand in hand with the extreme equipment and systems needs for cooling water. Oil gets spilled, dripped or leaked accidently and regularly, resulting in lots of floating oil that needs to be removed from the water so the water can be reused and / or discharged safely. In addition to the leaked oil, a lot of steel cooling operations actually create oily solutions for rolling, annnealing, and other non processes. Some cold rolling ops use animal fat to make a rolling emulsion / lubricant. It's lovely when it gets old but it's pretty cheap and very effective. Some hot strip finishing processes are using a combo of vegetable and fish oil as a rolling soltion.  
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Steel customers include: Acme Steel, Bethlehem, Chapparal Steel, Ispat Inland, ISG, USS, Great Lakes Steel, Granite City, NAS, Northstar, WCI, Weirton, LTV, National Steel, Keystone, Laclede Steel, AK Steel, McClouth Steel, Geneva Steel, Nucor/Gallatin, Chicago, Steel Tech, Heidtman Steel, Roll Coaters, Oil Technology, OilTech, Gerdau Steel, United States Steel, Steel Dynamics, Nalco Industrial Outsourcing, NAS, Nalco-Ecolab.
A good portion of these are gone, renamed, bought out and/or merged with other companies. 
MODEL NO. RECOVERY RATE WIDTH LENGTH HEIGHT WEIGHT CONSTRUCTION
FDS20RS 20 GPM 28" 42" 14" 45 LBS POLYPRO
FDS34RS 34 GPM 34" 48" 18" 80 LBS ANODIZED ALUM
FDS68RS 68 GPM 37" 92" 18" 100 LBS ANODIZED ALUM
FDS20RS/SteelMax Brochure / FDS34RS Brochure / FDS68RSBrochure
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FDS in industrial environment
SteelMAX getting the job done at a refinery
FDS working in tough environment
Drum Skimmer installed and operating
Drum skimmer operating in a collection pit removing oil from the water
Steel and oil and water — who says they don’t mix?  The Steel industry is heat, water and equipment intensive. 

RULE #1 — Shut it down! Never? 
RULE #2 — Keep it running till the downturn. Always!


We have developed specialty skimmers —hardened specifically for the steel industry!

​BOTTOM LINE: STEEL INDUSTRY HAS A LOT OF OILY WATER!  
None of that matters to the FLOATING Drum Skimmer (FDS). It's our tool of choice for the steel industry. It's tough, rugged, simple and deadly effective. We have units in place at some mills that have been running for over 20 years.

“The SteelMax skimmer has done a consistently thorough job of removing hydraulic oil from our Rolling Mill Scale Pits. It has collected enough oil for resale from the water system to cover 50% of its initial cost within one year.”  
— D.B., Plant Mechanical Engineer, Steel Dynamics Inc.

​For oil in scale pits, clarifiers, API’s, retention ponds, basement ponds, sewers, sloughs, oil/water separators, ditches — what have you. We’ve been there and have a different way of working it. We’ve already screwed it up — so you don’t have to.
Floating Drum Skimmer pulling oil toward it
The Floating Drum Skimmer will pull the oil/water to it as pictured above by traces on the surface

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We've learned how to do it right! Skim: Morgoil™, hydraulic, lube, rolling emulsion, animal fat, and more.

Approved vendor for United States Steel (USS), ARCELOR Mittal Steel, Steel Dynamics, Gallatin, Inland, ISG, National, Arizona, Florida, NUCOR, NAS and more.

We have ALL TYPES and technologies of oil skimmers and separation equipment for removing oil from water—or vice versa. 
WE LOVE OIL! Got OIL? — Call now! (314) 579-9755
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  • Want experience and proven results or a glossy brochure?
  • Need skimmers that will work in cold weather—all winter long? YUP—we got em’. In addition to the oil skimmers and oil/water separators, we have micro bubbler aerator devices to make oil float faster in less space than you have available.
  • We can help get oil out of your water.
  • We can help get the water out of your oil!
  • Got Morgoil™ tanks with too much water? We can help!
  • Got oil entrained in your water and not enough room to get it floating so it can be skimmed and removed? We can do that!
  • Got oil in a moving water stream—and need it removed? We do that!
      If you want to keep up or catch up with oil removal — call now!!

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