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WE ARE MIDWEST. AND WE ARE THE LEADERS IN DUST CONTROL TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION.
2,000 dust control customers have trusted Midwest to solve their roadway dust control problems — and 2,000 Midwest dust control customers have experienced proven, dramatic results.
Ordinary dust control relies solely on products (or just endless watering). Midwest is far from ordinary, acknowledged as the “Godfather of Dust Control” and the true industry leader in advanced dust control chemistries and equipment in the U.S. and abroad.
We don’t rely on anything "off-the-rack." Instead, we work with you to find out what’s best for you and co-create a program tailored to your exact requirements.
- Those who want everything done for them choose our most unique and popular option, a fully Managed Service program.
- Others prefer our “do it yourself” option that includes our technical assistance, the Midwest Guided Self-Apply program.
- Some, who find watering adequate but seek improved effectiveness or reduced costs, will opt for our new Enhanced Watering System.
Midwest also leads with the wide range of customer markets and applications we service — from mining and municipalities to runways and construction to military, steel mills, precast concrete, wineries, and many, many more. Wherever you have issues with dust, Midwest can solve them.
Dust Control Done Just Right
Co-Developed, Customized Programs Deliver the Results You Need.
Whether you prefer a fully managed program, the tools and guidance to tackle it on your own, or optimize your current watering practices, we'll co-develop a program for you.
Midwest provides customized, environmentally friendly dust control solutions for large and small industrial facilities, municipalities and communities, renewable energy sites, laydown and storage yards, agricultural and forestry roads, heavy use roads, and environmentally sensitive roads.
Midwest’s dust control programs offer effective solutions for:
- Maintaining Title 5 compliance with regulatory air quality standards
- Improving your current operations and safety
- Enhancing the health and quality of life for your workers and community
Three dust control programs for unpaved roads
DIFM
Midwest Managed Service Program
- Top-tier solution for people who want their dust control to be handled with certainty and to everyone’s satisfaction and requirements
- Fully-managed program in which Midwest handles all aspects, including delivery of product, application, and documentation to ensure regulatory compliance
- Scheduled and routine applications
- Allows you to focus on your operations and its productivity
DIFM-DIY
Midwest Guided Self-Apply (GSA) Program
- This Do-It-Yourself dust control solution is for people who want to do their own dust control, but need tools and technical support
- You use your own vehicle (pickup truck, flatbed, or other) and staff to perform dust control applications. Midwest provides the state-of-the-art product (EnviroKleen), user-friendly spray equipment (1500 Portable Sprayer), and technical guidance (training, application plan, support).
- Allows flexibility and on-demand dust control
- Based on co-developed strategic application plan
DIY
Midwest Enhanced Watering Program
- Where water is preferred, but seeking improved effectiveness or decrease in time and cost
- Seamless integration into current process with significantly increased dust control performance and duration
- Reduces the volume of water and watering frequency up to 75-80%
- Daily or multi-weekly applications
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Control Dust Instead of Letting Dust Control You.
Choose the industry leader! We’re ready to work with you to create a custom program to eliminate dust and deliver long-term reliability. Midwest uses the most advanced chemistry, customized engineering, and methodical installation for complete dust control solutions. Get a free consultation or request a quote today!
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Midwest Does What Others Cannot or Will Not
We Think Program, Not Product.
Midwest is the leader in the industry for many reasons. A concentration on the science of dust control, moving forward every year for 50 years rather than standing still, a push for true innovation, and a willingness to let third parties measure success.
With over five decades of solving complex dust problems, Midwest is the most trusted provider of program-based dust control solutions. We live to lead … and there is no dust problem that Midwest will shy away from.
Leadership and Expertise
- The largest intended-use dust control product manufacturer and provider in the industry, both in the U.S. and abroad
- A single source of accountability to guarantee your success
- 14 service hubs, 300 pieces of custom application equipment and power units, and highly trained service experts
- 50 years of innovating, manufacturing, and delivering dust control solutions
- Over 1,000 years of shared dust control experience
- More than 20 intended-use, proven dust control products
- More environmental certificates and testing than anyone in the industry
- Exceptional value and indirect cost savings that far exceed the product cost
Proven Performance
- The most tested, proven, and validated dust control programs on the market for long-term reliability
- The most innovative, effective, and cutting-edge dust control products and technologies in the industry
- State-of-the-art spray equipment designed and optimized for specific product chemistries and environments
- Independently verified by third-party testing conducted by prestigious scientific agencies, universities, and organizations
- In-house lab testing to optimize application plans and ensure predictable results based on site soils or materials
Custom, Wholistic Approach
- Assess and understand each site’s conditions, soils, climates, limitations, operations, traffic, and environmental conditions to develop a customized dust control program
- Collaborative, co-developed dust control solutions with defined performance objectives fulfill site-specific needs rather than a one-size-fits-all mentality
- Comprehensive approach improves all aspects of the road (stability, rideability, dust, surface) to maintain a high level of performance and deliver long-lasting dust control
- Seamless integration based on understanding the customer’s operations and practices to improve their productivity, not hinder it
- Proactively impact the root cause rather than reactively treat a symptom
- Provide all the tools, training, and support needed to establish and maintain an effective dust control program
Midwest Pioneered the Science of Dust Control
Midwest's advanced technologies and comprehensive dust control programs were designed to meet the demands of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, NPDES, and OSHA’s Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard.
REAL SCIENCE YIELDS REAL RESULTS
MIDWEST NEVER MAKES CLAIMS WE CAN’T PROVE.
Here are only a few of the many Midwest dust control success stories in which our superior chemistries and technology innovations have made proven, dramatic differences on behalf of our customers. You may scan the summaries below or download full, detailed case studies for each.
Maintaining 100% Air Quality Compliance through Midwest’s Fully Managed Service Program
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average opacity maintained based on Visible Emission Observations
14
of the 16 areas were converted to EnviroKleen® based on a successful trial
100%
compliance with Air Quality Permits
<9%
average opacity maintained based on Visible Emission Observations
14
of the 16 areas were converted to EnviroKleen® based on a successful trial
100%
compliance with Air Quality Permits
Challenges
- Maintain the facility’s compliance with strict U.S. EPA emissions standards at a large and dynamic industrial site.
- Manage the variable surface compositions, operational patterns, and dust sources.
- Reduce dust emissions on both unpaved and paved areas while minimizing overall chemical usage.
- Develop a long term, scalable program capable of evolving with traffic fluctuations and site specific constraints.
Project Summary
Location: Midwestern U.S.
Industry: Industrial and Manufacturing
Customer: Industrial Facility
This client partnered with Midwest to establish a comprehensive, multi year Dust Control Program designed to meet the strict U.S. EPA fugitive dust requirements. Over five years, Midwest implemented a strategic, Managed Service program centered on consistent performance monitoring, multi-chemistry application, and continuous optimization.
Midwest’s Managed Service Program Delivers Results: 28km of Haul Roads Achieve Over 95% Dust Control, Saving More Than 1 Million Liters of Water Each Year
>95%
average dust control achieved & maintained
28km
of haul roads treated with EnviroKleen®
>1,000,000
liters of water saved annually
>95%
average dust control achieved & maintained
28km
of haul roads treated with EnviroKleen®
>1,000,000
liters of water saved annually
Challenges
- Reduce fugitive dust emissions and fines loss created by extreme traffic loads, including haul trucks and land trains.
- Implement a completely environmentally friendly dust control solution and pass all strict environmental requirements.
- Reduce frequent grading and road maintenance accelerated by fines loss.
- Create a solution that is storable, sprayable, effective, and durable in Arctic conditions.
- Eliminate costly watering operations that consume millions of liters of water annually.
Project Summary
Location: Arctic
Industry: Mining Haul Roads
Customer: Mine
This mining client partnered with Midwest to address their severe dust emissions, excessive fines loss, and accelerated road degradation. To comply with the strict environmental requirements and withstand the cold climate, EnviroKleen® was selected.
Multi-Year Managed Service Program Delivers 100% Air Quality Compliance at Complex Industrial Site
90%
reduction in silt load after year 1
95+%
reduction in silt load maintained from year 2 to year 4
100%
compliance with air quality permits
90%
reduction in silt load after year 1
95+%
reduction in silt load maintained from year 2 to year 4
100%
compliance with air quality permits
Challenges
- Maintain the facility’s compliance with strict U.S. EPA emissions standards at a complex, highly active industrial site.
- Manage the continuously changing material conditions and operational patterns.
- Effectively reduce airborne dust and respirable particulate.
- Develop and implement a multi-year dust control program capable of delivering sustainable results.
Project Summary
Location: Midwestern U.S.
Industry: Industrial and Manufacturing
Customer: Industrial Facility
An industrial facility partnered with Midwest to implement a long-term, Managed Service dust control program designed to meet strict U.S. EPA regulatory standards for fugitive dust emissions. To address regulatory compliance concerns and reduce respirable dust, Midwest established a multi-year program using EnviroKleen®, an environmentally friendly synthetic organic fluid with a polymeric binder.
Sustainable Road Management: Midwest’s Fines Preservation Delivers Measurable and Lasting Results to Satisfy Residents
85%
average dust rReduction maintained through the program
100%
positive resident feedback
100%
initial reduction in visible dust emissions
85%
average dust rReduction maintained through the program
100%
positive resident feedback
100%
initial reduction in visible dust emissions
Challenges
- Persistent road dust diminished the quality of life for residents living nearby.
- Ordinary dust control treatments were inconsistent and ineffective.
- The Public Works Department (PWD) was faced with a high maintenance burden and increasing resident dissatisfaction.
- The PWD needed a solution that preserved their unpaved roads (comprised of A-1-a aggregate), eliminated dust, required infrequent applications, and posed no harm to the environment.
Project Summary
Location: Georgia
Industry: Municipal Roads
Customer: Public Works Department
The Public Works Department (PWD) faced challenges in maintaining unpaved residential and collector roads within the municipality. Traditional calcium chloride dust control treatments were inconsistent, leading to resident complaints and environmental concerns.
Midwest's Proven Process of "Right People, Right Questions, Right Sequence” Equals Quality Decisions
Different projects require different dust control solutions based on each site’s specific conditions and requirements. A comprehensive and customized program is created to guarantee optimum performance, regulatory compliance, safety, environmental concerns, and customer satisfaction.
DISCOVER
Midwest engages with you to learn your business objectives and critical success factors to determine how we can deliver them. We create a value-expected statement and agreement, then work more to investigate if we have a match or not.
DIAGNOSE
Midwest will evaluate your facility’s specific dust control issues and needs through site audits and interviews with key facility personnel. This information identifies areas of concern, defines the objectives, and determines the most appropriate program.
DESIGN
Midwest works with you to confirm that we understand the issues you face and understand the causes so that we can deliver your expected results based on data and information gathered during our visit to your site. Together we evaluate your specific dust control program to deliver the exact results you want that will meet your business and operating objectives.
DELIVER
Whether a turnkey, fully Managed Service Program, Guided Self-Applied, or Enhanced Watering System is selected, Midwest will work to assure you achieve the results you want and that your goals and success factors are achieved for exactly the price that was agreed upon at the outset. Our guarantee is not to sell products but to deliver on the promises made!
Our Success Metrics Are Your Success Metrics
Down to a Science Means Right at the Site.
One of the main keys to Midwest’s success in proven dust control is utilizing a program instead of just a product. Moreover, a Midwest program is site-specific. Site strategies are developed for a particular site based on studying its particulars.
By strategically planning maintenance applications as supported by field data and observations, we are able to improve the efficiency of our dust control program, as established by credible evidence of performance. We quantify and document the value that’s delivered with Midwest’s dust control programs. You deserve to know the real cost of dust control, and we provide it, in terms of cost-per-square foot, time duration, and targeted control efficiency.
Here’s how it works:
Before the Dust Control Program
- Initial site assessment and walk-through to diagnose a customer’s current dust levels and site conditions
- Determine areas to be treated and define each area’s square footage
- Select the best product and program for each site (i.e., customer-applied vs. delivery and applied)
- Conduct baseline performance testing: VEO, Silt Load, Visual Assessment, etc.
During the Dust Control Program
- Record location, data, and gallons applied for each application
- Conduct routing performance monitoring: VEOs, Silt Loads, Visual Assessments, etc.
- Coordinate maintenance applications with the customer based on performance
After the Dust Control Program
- Compile and analyze all performance data, application information, and field observations
- Write annual performance report
- Present report and findings to customer
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Control Dust Instead of Letting Dust Control You.
Choose the industry leader! We’re ready to work with you to create a custom program to eliminate dust and deliver long-term reliability. Midwest uses the most advanced chemistry, customized engineering, and methodical installation for complete dust control solutions. Get a free consultation or request a quote today!