Every plant manager knows the feeling. You’re cruising along, things are going smoothly, you are in the operator position, then suddenly capacity killers come out of nowhere. Let me know if you have encountered one of these before? Odds are you have, and more than once.
The Capacity Killers
The Bottleneck
This capacity crunch hits when seasonal peaks, industrial surges, or storm events overwhelm your system.
The Wrench
This monster shows up when planned outages grind operations to a halt, and equipment has to be taken offline.
The Siren
This crisis response blares loud and clear when something breaks, or the process gets out of whack, threatening discharge limits and compliance.
The Gap
This is the bridge to the future that stalls you when your permanent solution is still months or years away from completion.
At WesTech, we’ve given these headaches names because we’ve seen them all. And it was one customer’s encounter with every single one of them that changed how we do business.
The Challenge That Sparked a Solution
Years ago, a long-time WesTech customer faced a regulatory turning point. Due to environmental spills involving coal ash, new rules required water to be treated to extremely low limits, and the timeline for compliance was immediate.
The Bottleneck appeared as ash pond storage demanded rapid drawdown. The Wrench showed up when parts of the system had to be taken offline during the transition. The Siren blared under heightened scrutiny to protect downstream drinking water supplies. And the Gap loomed large, with permanent infrastructure still years away while ash haulers needed to begin removal immediately.
They didn’t just need equipment. They needed a modular system that could be erected, online, and treating water in weeks – not months.
That’s when WesTech’s engineers, project managers, and fabrication teams rallied. They designed and deployed a temporary treatment solution that operated successfully for 3.5 years, keeping flows steady, compliance intact, and ash removal moving forward.
That success didn’t just solve one customer’s emergency – it sparked a new vision: build water treatment solutions on wheels. From that moment, our team committed to creating a mobile fleet designed to defeat capacity killers wherever they strike.
Meet the fleet behind the fixes. Explore our Mobile Rental Systems brochure.
Fast Forward: Turning a One-Off Into an Industry Lifeline
WesTech’s mobile and rental fleet exists today because of that collaboration, built on decades of field experience and real-time solutions to urgent customer challenges.
Now, that same expertise helps customers across the country keep their plants running with a fleet of more than 400 mobile systems ready to deploy.
In just six weeks, the equipment was delivered, installed, and running, keeping the plant online while permanent upgrades were underway.
Why It Matters
Temporary water treatment isn’t a stopgap, it’s a strategy.
Whether you’re facing planned maintenance, compliance surprises, or growth bottlenecks, mobile systems provide breathing room to operate, plan, and adapt.
WesTech’s mobile fleet (400+ assets and growing) was born from a real customer need, and it continues to evolve with every deployment. Because when capacity killers show up, staying operational isn’t optional.
Mobile and Temporary Systems
