Swiss Machinery introduces technology to clean diesel and curb downtime

Mar 25, 2018 News

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“This is just one phase of taking diesel to a new level. We are reaching out to every single owner of a diesel engine to make sure we are supporting them so that they do not destroy their engines, and that, for us, is the bottom-line.”

 

By Sharmain Grainger

A new technology has been introduced to the local market which is expected to considerably improve the operation of the faction of the business sector which relies heavily on the use of diesel to power machinery. You see, diesel for many years has been a major challenge for many business operations, owing to the poor quality that is often made available.
This state of affairs was recently attested to by business tycoon, Harold Beharry, who has been in the machinery business right here in Guyana for some 40 years. Beharry sits at the helm of the ever-thriving Swiss Machinery company located at Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
“People are hurting because the quality of the diesel is very, very poor, and it causes the pump [of their machines] to become defective in a very short time, and in addition to that, it creates problems for the engine,” Beharry explained during an interview.
He revealed that in some cases the diesel imported is of such a bad quality that the end-users have to strain it before utilizing it. But even strained, the diesel is still not best suited for powering an engine.
“It is like a human being; if you eat poor quality food you will get sick. You cannot expect the best out of your engine by feeding it poor quality diesel – that is, dirty diesel or diesel with water or diesel with sediment,” related an informed Beharry. He is fully aware too that the quality of the diesel can be further compromised by its storage.

“When the gold miners take diesel into the interior, they place it in 45-gallon drums and those drums keep shaking all the time and the sediment from the drums get into the diesel, so even before the diesel arrives at its destination it is even more contaminated,” said Beharry. Additionally, he revealed, “When they store it, the drum gets rusted and the diesel gets further contaminated, and added to this, diesel by nature absorbs water too.”
Spurred by his understanding that the poor quality of diesel can sometimes do irreversible harm to high-price machinery, Beharry decided to take on a mission to help improve the quality of diesel.
It took some research, but he was eventually able to find the ideal solution.
The solution, which was introduced to the local market a few months ago, is the SEPAR five-stage filtration system. The system is one that extracts water and sediment from poor quality diesel and delivers a very high quality diesel, suitable for the premium operation of engines. “This is new to Guyana, but it is well established in Germany, the United States of America and most developed countries,” said Beharry.
His latest undertaking gives credence to the notion that Beharry isn’t merely a businessman on a mission to earn a profit, but rather, is driven by a desire to “keep diesel equipment and engines productive, thus curtailing downtime and increasing revenue for customers.”

Even as he explained the use of the SEPAR system – which has a filter for just about any application – Beharry said that filters of this nature have long been utilized by Original Equipment Manufacturers [OEM] including John Deere and Cummins.
“They put this filter on their equipment to get better production and better service of their engines,” said Beharry, as he noted that such a product is suitable for “anyone with a diesel engine such as a truck, excavator, bulldozer or marine [vehicle].”
The idea of the SEPAR filtration system has already started to gain traction, since a number of major local companies have started to make use of it.
“This is just one phase of taking diesel to a new level. We are reaching out to every single owner of a diesel engine to make sure we are supporting them so that they do not destroy their engines, and that, for us, is the bottom-line,” said Beharry.
As he expressed confidence that the filtration system will improve the operation of any diesel-fuelled machine, Beharry emphasised, “this is not an experiment! It is a proven successful item that is endorsed by a lot of OEM equipment; it is internationally-recognized equipment.”
He revealed too that not only is the price very affordable, but the lifespan of this filtration system is expected to last three times that of other filters. A normal filter, according to Beharry, can last for as little as three months, but the SEPAR system will continue to work optimally for nine months, after which only the internal filtration element has to be replaced at a fraction of the cost of the system.
Learning more about this ‘steal’ is as simple as dialing [592] 233-2495 or 233-3821 to reach the Parts Department of Swiss Machinery, and you just might hear the friendly voice of Sales Executive, Mr. Denzel Mclean, who like the other staffers, can answer just about any searching question.
As he stressed the importance of such a product on the local market, Beharry added, “There is a desperate need to filter diesel to a healthy quality, so that people do not suffer unnecessarily. It is a need that has been there for some time and it has bothered me for years, but we have found a technology to address that problem.
“Why should a guy with ‘brand new’ equipment that is worth quarter-million dollars put dirty diesel into his engine and there is no system to protect that equipment? That is a critical, crisis situation that needed to be addressed, and that is why we did the research and found this technology,” Beharry asserted.
Another technology that the company is currently promoting is one that can facilitate the cleaning of fuel [diesel] storage tanks. This is also important, Beharry said, since sediment will settle at the bottom of these storage tanks, and even if the diesel is filtered, it will become contaminated again once it enters the tank.
“Once you keep pumping more and more fuel in that tank the slush becomes thicker and thicker. We have technology that can scan the tank to see the state of it, take a picture and then clean it. We are doing this in collaboration with an international company and we can cater to tanks of any size,” said Beharry.
With a focus on all diesel equipment and ways to safeguard diesel, Swiss Machinery, from next month, will be taking it products to its consumers in far-flung areas. This move will take on an exhibition-type form starting in Port Kaituma in Region One, then moving to Lethem in Region Nine and Corentyne in Region Six.
“What we are doing is taking our company to the consumers, because people in those areas are hurting and they don’t know the answer to their problem, and some of them will not come to Georgetown to get the answers…so we are taking the answers to them,” Beharry said.

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