1. Sanol – a world wide absorbent and remediation concept

2. The company Head office in Partille, Sweden
Sanol AB is environmentally certified according to ISO 14001 
Quality certified according to ISO 9001
Production facilities in Hjo, Partille (Sweden), Budapest (Hungary)
Partnership/Joint Venture with a Meltblown-factory since 2011
m2 new facilities in Partille
Head office in Partille
ISO 14001  Environment
ISO 9001 Quality
Production facilities – Hjo & Partille (Sweden), Fuijara (UAE)
New building!

3. Quality & Environment
It comes naturally, that our company comply to all demands and requirements specified in latest revisions of ISO 9001:2008 (Quality Management) and ISO 14001: 2004 (Environmental Management).
Fulfilling the demands in these standards, ensures a consistent quality and reliability of our products and services.

4. The company Sanol® - our own, unique, oil absorbent
All development of products within the company
Broad range of absorbent and spill control products for all applications considering decontamination and spill prevention.
Started 1977 – Jan Berglund
Idea of The SOS Container with machinery and also mini Factory

5. Product range Sanol® – where it all started
Booms & socks
Granulated
Fixol® – absorbs all type of liquids
Resin must be modified to absorb
water and water-soluble products
For easy separation the Fixol is
always colored light blue
and Sanol is colored light yellow.

6. Product range Complimentary products: Spill Kit
PP absorbents – sheets, rolls, socks, pillows, booms etc.
Containment booms
Drain covers
Granulated diatomit
etc.

7. Sanol® – the product Sanol-foam is a modified carbamide polymer resin
Based on inorganic/synthetic raw material to create an organic material
The building blocks of Sanol-foam are the same that are used in fertilizers, bioplastics, chewing gum, pharmaceuticals etc
It is a non-toxic product which is biodegradable and readily compostable.
This is what it looks like after we have made a batch! It dries outside.

8. Structure of Sanol® Tiny bubbles Resin hardens
Enormous amount of small cavities
Absorbs fluids
Capillary forces
Fluid penetrating into the cavity will be retained
Highly polar fluids will be rejected
At manufacturing, almost indefinite amounts of tiny bubbles are created.
When the resin hardens, it creates an enormous amount of small cavities that will absorb fluids by a combination of capillary forces and weak electrostatic forces.
Any fluid penetrating into the cavity will be retained, but highly polar fluids will be rejected unless the resin is modified

9. ACTIVITIES When the Sanol foam is in physical
contact with any other surface
contaminated with an organic
fluid, the fluid will be absorbed into
the foam and retained there.
The contaminated surface will be cleaned
and the contaminant permanently
removed.

10. Sanol® Advantages of Sanol:
Great absorption capacity - at least 35 times its on weight
ABsorb vs ADsorb - No leakage of absorbed contaminants
Superior floatability and water resistance
Less weight – simple handling and collection of used products
10 m booms instead of 3 m booms, less links – much better efficency
Eco-friendly - virtually non-toxic and biodegradable
May be incinerated without formation of detrimental residues
Simple and easy to produce locally
Will not give any negative impact on natural environment
Sanol 2.0 and PP are complementary products but in many cases the Sanol is superior to PP

11. Sanol® compared to PP Sanol 31-36 g oil per g absorption material
“After 20 minutes the measurements were stopped and the weight of the pouches was measured, figure 4. It was observed that the amount of oil remaining in the absorption material was more than twice as much for the foamed polymer compared to the PP-fibres, g oil per g absorption material compared with g.”
YKI test results, project PX20172
Sanol g oil per g absorption material
Polypropylen g oil per g absorbtion material

12. Sanol® booms Sanol boom 18 cm Ø
10 m with rope and links and spunbond net/cover

13. Sanol® booms …and you will loose on every connection!
Sanol boom 18 cm Ø
10 m lengths
3 kg/10m
PP boom cm Ø
3 m lengths
5 kg/3m
…and you will loose on every connection!
(17 kg/10m)
Our biggest boom 18 compared to a 18 pp boom
And the amount of oil you absorb is more

14. structure modification
Grinding
and
structure modification
USE OF SANOL FOAM
Foam block or tubes
Packaged in booms, lengths, etc.
Directly on spills
Collection
Incineration
Energy
Recovered oil
Compression or
Creator
Lennart Hamnelid

15. Collecting

16. Business areas Remediation and spill prevention projects
Some references:
Swedish Civil Contingency Agency
Swedish Coast Guard
Rescue Agencys
Swedish Armed Forces
Water Authorities, Hungary
EEMS, Nigeria

17. Business areas
Industrial applications for production, transport and service companies
Some references:
DryDocks World, Dubai, UAE
Pinmar Yacht Service, Spain
Shell/ST1 Refinary, Sweden
Q8 Refinary, Sweden
Metsä Tissue, Sweden
ABB, World Wide
IKEA, World Wide
Volvo Penta , World Wide

18. Business areas Example of custom made products Transformation stations
Ariane rockets
Ariane rocket program – Fixol mat in the top of the rocket to absorb condense water
Transformation stations in Australia – a swedish company delivers an alarm when oil is leaking. We deliver a Sanol Transformation Boom.

19. Business areas
Consumer products – for retailer in marine and motorsport areas
Bilge sausage/boom – Kölsvinskorv
Fuel pad
PP Sheets
Boat kit with all three products.

20. The importance of demonstrations
An old saying tells:
You learn for the moment when listening
You learn for at longer time when you see
You learn for life when doing
Thank you for listening and for giving us your valuable time
To be able to see with your own eyes, how effective our SANOL
absorbents work in a practical demonstration will awake an understanding

21. Sanol – a world wide absorbent and remediation concept