For maintenance companies
You already have the customers, the crews, and the site knowledge. What’s missing is the ability to inspect and clean a tank without shutting it down. That’s the gap this solution closes.
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Anthony: The customer's crew, not ours. Follow a maintenance company's own operators running the system on a live job — rigging it, driving it, reading the screens, packing it down at the end. Faces and company shirts visible if the customer allows. No Paragonix staff on camera at any point. If we can get a short piece to camera from one of their operators or a manager saying what it added to their business, that is the closing shot.
The model
Paragonix Tek provides the technology. You provide the service. Your customer relationship stays yours, your team delivers the work, and the platform becomes another capability you can offer with confidence.
Technology
Builds the robot, trains your operators, supports the equipment for its working life.
Delivery
Operates the system and delivers the service under your own name.
Relationship
The asset owner stays your account, on your contract.
We supply
Yours, exclusively
Indicative investment Systems typically start at USD 250,000
Benefits
These are the four things an asset owner weighs before letting anyone near a tank — and the four you can now answer better than anyone else bidding.
The crew works topside at the control station, in the open air. Survey, cleaning and measurement are all done from outside, which takes confined-space entry out of the scope of work.
A standard tank with under two inches of sediment can be cleaned in about a day. Two five-million-gallon tanks have been completed in a single mobilisation.
The asset keeps its storage, pressure and fire reserve throughout. And as the sediment leaves, the usable capacity comes back — a tank with half a metre of sludge on the floor is a smaller tank than the one that was built.
A three-person crew, one mobilisation, and the product stays where it is — treated water, fire reserve or fuel alike. The saving is in the days the asset keeps earning.
What you get
The system arrives configured for the work you intend to do, and your crew is trained on it before it goes near a customer's tank.
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Anthony: The handover. The delivered system laid out on site — crawler, control station, umbilical, tooling — with the customer's own crew standing around it. Shot on the day it is commissioned, not in a workshop. This is the image that has to say ready to go.
Built around your specific application — including tank access, stored product, construction materials, and site classification. The system is configured with the crawler, control station, umbilical, tooling, and sensors required for the job.
We work through the tanks you expect to service before anything is built, so the configuration matches the work you actually win.
Your crew is trained to deploy, operate, recover and maintain the system. Training can be delivered on your site or at ours.
Spares, consumables and direct access to the people who built the machine — for the working life of the equipment, not a warranty window.
Parts, support and engineering
Equipment that goes into hazardous or potable environments needs an engineering answer, not a call centre. Alongside spares and technical support we advise on hazardous-area and equipment-safety questions, and on integrating third-party components into the platform.
Systems built since 1999 remain supported. That is deliberate: a maintenance company cannot depreciate a capital asset over ten years if the manufacturer stops answering.
What it takes to run
The path
Tell us about the tanks you service and the work you want to win. We’ll assess where robotic maintenance fits — and where it doesn’t.
Inspection is a critical step to determine the scope of work required. We can inspect the tank, or teach you to carry out inspections.
Access, product, sediment, and site classification shape the system. This is where the final specification is defined.
The system is manufactured in the USA and tested before it ships.
Your operators learn the equipment, the deployment sequence, the recovery procedures and the maintenance schedule.
We support your first job so the crew builds confidence on a real tank rather than in a classroom.
Parts, technical support and engineering advice as your work expands into new applications.
The tank stays online and at full capacity throughout the work. The crew works entirely from outside, so confined-space entry is eliminated — along with the cost and risk that come with it.
For more than 20 years across eight countries, robotic tank maintenance has kept turbidity within nominal operational limits.
On the extremely rare occasion that a robot gets stuck, we have procedures in place to free or recover the machine from outside, with the tank still full.
All equipment entering a potable water tank is sanitised to AWWA C652-19 standards and built in line with NSF/ANSI 61 guidance for temporary contact with drinking water. Leach testing can also be completed before deployment if required.
Divers are still subject to confined-space entry requirements, which are designed to protect personnel working inside the tank. A robotic system removes diver entry altogether, and with it the turbidity and contamination that come from movement and exhalation in the water. Because the whole job is carried out from outside the tank, your insurance cost on the work falls too.
Draining a tank gets the job done, but at a cost. It takes the asset offline, adds structural stress during emptying and refilling, and still requires confined-space entry and scaffolding. Robotic inspection delivers the same critical information while the tank remains full, operational, and available when needed.
Disposal is determined by local regulation. Historically most discharge has gone to ground or directly to sanitary sewer from the tank. Where local rules call for it, solids separation is available — filter bag collection, sediment recovery tanks, or a portable treatment plant.
It can remain in the tank around the clock for the duration of the project.
Every tank is unique and every sediment is different. Our system enables you to configure the right tools, sensors, and cleaning approach for each job to achieve optimal results.
Every robot has integrated mapping, positioning and obstacle-avoidance acoustics. This gives the operator a clear picture in all conditions, including around roof support columns and internal fittings.
Next step
Tell us the tanks you service and the work you are trying to win. We will tell you what it would take, and whether it is worth it.
Discuss your application