Site
visit:
Nilfisk­
Advance
14600
21st
Avenue
North
Plymouth,
MN
55447­
3408
Participants:
Christopher
Hanson­
Facility
Manager
Teena
Wooten­
EPA
OSW
Jim
O'Leary­
EPA­
OSW
Nancy
Ellefson­
MN
Pollution
Control
Agency
Date:
May
11,
2006
Jim
O'Leary
and
Teena
Wooten
with
the
Environmental
Protection
Agency's
Office
of
Solid
Waste
and
Nancy
Ellefson
with
the
Minnesota
Pollution
Control
Agency
visited
the
Nilfisk­
Advance
facility
in
Plymouth,
MN
on
May
11,
2006.
Nilfisk
manufactures
industrial
and
commercial
cleaning
equipment.
The
company
has
210
union
employees.
The
facility
is
a
very
small
quantity
generator.

This
facility
mostly
assembles
the
parts
with
very
little
manufacturing.
The
facility
has
reduced
its
wipe
usage
from
30,000
to
9,000
a
month
due
to
outsourcing
the
machine
shop
and
sheet
metal
operations.
Nilfisk
also
outsourced
90%
of
its
painting
operations.
Nilfisk
uses
prepsol
as
its
main
solvent.
It
is
used
to
clean
the
sheet
metal.
Nilfisk
uses
red
shop
towels
(
reusable)
for
cleaning
up
grease
and
oil.
These
wipes
do
not
contain
any
solvent.

In
the
plastic
department,
the
operator
has
a
container
of
methyl
ethyl
ketone
for
cleaning.
The
MEK
is
pouted
onto
the
wipe.
This
area
uses
200­
300
wipes
per
week.
Nilfisk
purchases
less
than
55­
gallon
of
MEK
a
year.
It
is
stored
in
the
chemical
storage
area
and
dispensed
one
quart
at
a
time.
The
wipes
are
pickup
by
the
laundry
every
two
weeks.

The
printing
area
generates
around
250
wipes
during
a
two­
month
time.
The
solvent
is
added
to
the
wipes.
However,
the
wipes
are
not
saturated.
The
ink
is
scrapped
from
the
printing
machines
with
a
piece
of
cardboard
then
the
screen
is
washed
with
the
solvent.
The
wipes
from
this
area
are
combined
with
the
wipes
from
the
rest
of
the
plant
and
pickup
by
the
laundry.
