Falch
Tank CleaningCoating RemovalHeat-Exchanger CleaningIndustrial Pipe CleaningRobotic Solutions
Falch is a German manufacturer of high- and ultra-high-pressure water-jetting equipment, developing machines, pumps, accessories, and robotic systems for professional cleaning and surface preparation. Its technology combines pressures of up to 3,000 bar with specialized tooling to address demanding industrial applications.
Through its partnership with Pure Land, Falch technology is available to customers across Iraq, with a particular focus on the oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, and heavy industrial sectors. We help clients select equipment around their assets, operating conditions, maintenance objectives, and required cleaning results.
Our Core Applications
Tank Cleaning — Internal & External
Tank maintenance involves different tasks: removing accumulated deposits, cleaning surfaces for inspection, stripping deteriorated coatings, and preparing steel for protective coating application. Each task requires the right combination of pressure, water flow, nozzle arrangement, and cleaning method.
Our Falch offering focuses on:
- Cleaning internal tank walls, floors, and accessible roof surfaces.
- Cleaning external tank shells and associated steel structures.
- Removing adherent hydrocarbon residues and industrial deposits.
- Removing existing paint, coatings, and corrosion products.
- Preparing surfaces for inspection, repair, and recoating.
- Selecting manual, mechanized, or robotic tools according to site access and tank geometry.
Falch lists tank cleaning, steel-surface cleaning, corrosion removal, and old-paint removal among its water-jetting applications.
Coating Removal & Surface Preparation
Ultra-high-pressure water jetting can remove strongly bonded coatings and surface contamination using water alone, without added abrasives or chemical stripping agents in suitable applications. This makes it a valuable option for maintenance projects where abrasive dust and spent blasting media are concerns.
For Pure Land, the objective is to match the process to the client’s specified surface condition. Selection considers the coating type and thickness, substrate condition, required cleanliness, available access, and subsequent coating system.
Typical applications include:
- Internal and external tank-coating removal.
- Paint stripping from industrial steelwork and equipment.
- Removal of corrosion products and adherent contamination.
- Localized coating removal around areas requiring repair.
- Preparation of existing steel surfaces for recoating.
Water jetting can expose an existing surface profile; creating a new profile may require an additional preparation method. Final acceptance therefore considers cleanliness, profile, soluble salts, and flash rust as required by the project specification.
Heat-Exchanger Cleaning — Inside & Out
Deposits inside tubes and across external surfaces restrict flow and reduce heat-transfer efficiency. Effective cleaning helps restore performance and makes equipment more accessible for inspection and maintenance.
Falch provides solutions for internal and external heat-exchanger cleaning, with equipment selection based on tube quantity, length, internal diameter, and deposit hardness. www.falch.com
Internal Tube Cleaning
Specialized lances, hoses, and nozzles direct the water jet through the tubes to remove internal fouling. The configuration is selected around tube dimensions and the characteristics of the obstruction or deposit.
External Bundle Cleaning
Water-jetting tools clean the outside of tube bundles, addressing deposits between tubes and across accessible surfaces. Mechanized equipment can help control nozzle movement and maintain consistent cleaning coverage.
Application-Specific System Selection
Pure Land supports the selection of pressure, flow, tooling, and automation according to the cleaning duty—whether routine maintenance or the removal of hard, persistent deposits during a shutdown.
Heavy-Duty Industrial Cleaning
Heavy industrial cleaning requires more than high pressure. It requires suitable water flow, reliable equipment, practical access, and tools that can reach the contaminated surface.
Our scope includes solutions for:
- Refinery and petrochemical process equipment.
- Production machinery and heavy industrial components.
- Process vessels, filters, and associated equipment.
- Industrial floors and maintenance areas.
- Removal of grease, scale, process residues, and other adherent deposits.
Falch’s application portfolio covers industrial equipment, floors, parts, containers, moulds, and filters, allowing solutions to be selected for a broad range of maintenance tasks. www.falch.com
Industrial Pipe & Process-Line Cleaning
Industrial pipes can accumulate scale, sludge, and process residues that restrict their internal passage. Water jetting directs cleaning energy into the pipe through application-specific nozzles and feeding arrangements.
Pure Land helps assess:
- Pipe diameter, length, and material.
- Deposit type, hardness, and extent.
- Available access points and pipe geometry.
- Required pressure and water flow.
- Tool feeding, retrieval, and wastewater recovery arrangements.
This assessment helps determine a practical cleaning configuration and whether water jetting is suitable for the condition of the line.
Automation & Robotic Technology
Falch develops machines, pumps, accessories, and robots within its own technology portfolio. Combining these elements allows a cleaning system to be configured around the application rather than relying on a general-purpose machine alone. www.falch.com
Depending on the selected equipment, mechanized and robotic tools can help:
- Control nozzle movement and cleaning coverage.
- Reduce the physical demands of manual jetting.
- Support repeatable cleaning across larger surfaces.
- Increase the distance between the operator and the active jet.
Automation is selected according to the asset, access conditions, and required result. Tank entry, working at height, and hazardous-area requirements remain part of the site-specific assessment.
Equipment, Accessories & Spare Parts
A complete cleaning system—from the power unit to the working tool.
Pure Land supports the supply of Falch water-jetting machines together with the accessories needed for the intended task:
The equipment package is configured around pressure, flow, working distance, access, and operating requirements.
- High-pressure hoses and connections.
- Cleaning guns, lances, and specialized nozzles.
- Tube- and pipe-cleaning tools.
- Surface-cleaning and coating-removal equipment.
- Mechanized and robotic cleaning systems.
- Safety devices, replacement components, and spare parts.
International technology backed by local technical support.
Our role extends from understanding the application to supporting the equipment throughout its working life:
- Technical assessment — reviewing the asset, contamination, and required result.
- Equipment selection — matching machines, tools, and accessories to the task.
- Supply and commissioning support — helping bring the selected system into operation.
- Operator training — supporting correct equipment use and routine care.
- Maintenance and after-sales support — providing spare parts and technical coordination.
Discuss Your Cleaning Challenge
Whether you are planning a refinery shutdown, cleaning heat exchangers, maintaining storage tanks, or removing industrial coatings, Pure Land can help identify the appropriate Falch solution.