{"id":9758,"date":"2021-05-13T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/drummondville\/"},"modified":"2021-05-13T15:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T19:07:52","slug":"drummondville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/","title":{"rendered":"Drummondville"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9758\" class=\"elementor elementor-9758 elementor-9358\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-558e74e4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"558e74e4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6d1ecfcf\" data-id=\"6d1ecfcf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e38b823 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2e38b823\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Municipality: City of Drummondville<\/p><p>Project: Pre-wetting of abrasives (5 mm stone)<\/p><p>Project specifications: improve snow removal operations<\/p><p>Timeframe: 2011 to 2018<\/p><h2>Main customer challenges<\/h2><p>First challenge<\/p><ul><li>Make the work of snow removal operators easier and eliminate time lost dealing with frozen clumps of sand<\/li><\/ul><p>Second challenge<\/p><ul><li>Reduce the amount of road salt spread<\/li><li>Increase driver safety at lower temperatures (salt begins to lose its effectiveness at -12 degrees Celsius)<\/li><li>Budgetary considerations<\/li><\/ul><h2>Solutions recommended by Somavrac C.C.<\/h2><ul><li>Solution to the first challenge: pre-wetting abrasives with an automated mixer<\/li><li>Pre-wetting abrasive piles with liquid to make handling easier at low temperatures (down to -51 degrees Celsius)<\/li><\/ul><p>Solution to the second challenge: on-board liquid for abrasives<\/p><ul><li>Installation of an on-site 40,000-liter buffer tank for liquid de-icer storage (29.6% concentration calcium chloride with corrosion inhibitor) for proactive spreader truck refills<\/li><li>Spreader trucks equipped with an automated liquid spray system controlled by operators based on spreading charts developed by the city<\/li><li>Before falling to the ground, the salt and sand in the truck body are sprayed with the de-icing agent for an immediate ice-melting effect<\/li><\/ul><h2>Results and customer impact<\/h2><ul><li>30% less salt in the environment<\/li><li>Product effective down to -25 degrees Celsius<\/li><li>Uniform, malleable piles at temperatures as low as -51 degrees Celsius<\/li><li>Less loss through bouncing, as liquid enhances product ground adhesion<\/li><li>Better long-term product effectiveness leading to fewer snow removal operations<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Municipality: City of Drummondville Project: Pre-wetting of abrasives (5 mm stone) Project specifications: improve snow removal operations Timeframe: 2011 to 2018 Main customer challenges First challenge Make the work of snow removal operators easier and eliminate time lost dealing with frozen clumps of sand Second challenge Reduce the amount of road salt spread Increase driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":9373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-of-realization","category-somavrac-c-c-case"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drummondville - Groupe Somavrac<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drummondville - Groupe Somavrac\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Municipality: City of Drummondville Project: Pre-wetting of abrasives (5 mm stone) Project specifications: improve snow removal operations Timeframe: 2011 to 2018 Main customer challenges First challenge Make the work of snow removal operators easier and eliminate time lost dealing with frozen clumps of sand Second challenge Reduce the amount of road salt spread Increase driver [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Groupe Somavrac\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-13T19:00:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-13T19:07:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/D-Glace-100-Richmond-Nitro-3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Guillaume Chartier\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Guillaume Chartier\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Guillaume Chartier\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cf8d1331551bdd3012401fb676b202c9\"},\"headline\":\"Drummondville\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-13T19:00:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-13T19:07:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":236,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/D-Glace-100-Richmond-Nitro-3.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Case of realization\",\"Somavrac C.C.\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/\",\"name\":\"Drummondville - Groupe Somavrac\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/D-Glace-100-Richmond-Nitro-3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-13T19:00:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-13T19:07:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cf8d1331551bdd3012401fb676b202c9\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/drummondville\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/D-Glace-100-Richmond-Nitro-3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/D-Glace-100-Richmond-Nitro-3.jpg\",\"width\":2048,\"height\":1536},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Groupe Somavrac\",\"description\":\"Partenaire de votre cha\u00eene logistique\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.groupesomavrac.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cf8d1331551bdd3012401fb676b202c9\",\"name\":\"Guillaume Chartier\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/221fc8b996db1d7342a6cd658e6196b862103b1d49bb9eac819ffc4a4927fdd6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/221fc8b996db1d7342a6cd658e6196b862103b1d49bb9eac819ffc4a4927fdd6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/221fc8b996db1d7342a6cd658e6196b862103b1d49bb9eac819ffc4a4927fdd6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Guillaume Chartier\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/groupesomavrac.com\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Drummondville - Groupe Somavrac","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Drummondville - Groupe Somavrac","og_description":"Municipality: City of Drummondville Project: Pre-wetting of abrasives (5 mm stone) Project specifications: improve snow removal operations Timeframe: 2011 to 2018 Main customer challenges First challenge Make the work of snow removal operators easier and eliminate time lost dealing with frozen clumps of sand Second challenge Reduce the amount of road salt spread Increase driver [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/","og_site_name":"Groupe Somavrac","article_published_time":"2021-05-13T19:00:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-05-13T19:07:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2048,"height":1536,"url":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/D-Glace-100-Richmond-Nitro-3.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Guillaume Chartier","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Guillaume Chartier","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/"},"author":{"name":"Guillaume Chartier","@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/cf8d1331551bdd3012401fb676b202c9"},"headline":"Drummondville","datePublished":"2021-05-13T19:00:44+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-13T19:07:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/"},"wordCount":236,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/D-Glace-100-Richmond-Nitro-3.jpg","articleSection":["Case of realization","Somavrac C.C."],"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/","url":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/","name":"Drummondville - Groupe Somavrac","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/D-Glace-100-Richmond-Nitro-3.jpg","datePublished":"2021-05-13T19:00:44+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-13T19:07:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/cf8d1331551bdd3012401fb676b202c9"},"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/drummondville\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/D-Glace-100-Richmond-Nitro-3.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/D-Glace-100-Richmond-Nitro-3.jpg","width":2048,"height":1536},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/","name":"Groupe Somavrac","description":"Partenaire de votre cha\u00eene logistique","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-CA"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/cf8d1331551bdd3012401fb676b202c9","name":"Guillaume Chartier","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/221fc8b996db1d7342a6cd658e6196b862103b1d49bb9eac819ffc4a4927fdd6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/221fc8b996db1d7342a6cd658e6196b862103b1d49bb9eac819ffc4a4927fdd6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/221fc8b996db1d7342a6cd658e6196b862103b1d49bb9eac819ffc4a4927fdd6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Guillaume Chartier"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/groupesomavrac.com"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9785,"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions\/9785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groupesomavrac.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}