Transportation

Ensuring quality and sustainability through processes that boost efficiency and deliver great results to help you meet your business goals.

Improving Transportation Operations

With the continuous growth of the global middle class, the need for faster, safer and sustainable automotive and mobility solutions will continue to grow. Nalco Water aims to help OEM’s in this space by revolutionizing the way the transportation industry achieves its sustainability and operational objectives.

Customers in the transportation manufacturing industry are looking to maximize operating efficiencies at optimized cost as they embrace the digital industry trends. Operating as one team, safely delivering innovative, value-based solutions in digital, chemistry and managed operations ideally positions Nalco Water to deliver on that expectation.

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Vehicle Wash and Detailing Chemistry Experts

We offer a wide range of high-quality car wash, truck wash, and detailing cleaning and care products. The core of our vehicle care business focuses on creating that clean, new, protective sensation with every treatment. We develop products for each step in the treatment process and for multiple wash system types.

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EV Battery Market Surges

The electric vehicle (EV) battery market is surging as traditional automakers announce plans to go all-electric and new EV players continue to emerge.

Building new battery plants is only half the battle. Battery manufacturing requires significant heating and cooling resources. 

The Automotive experts at Nalco Water compiled the top 10 mistakes we see at new plant start-ups worldwide, including issues unique to EV battery plants. Our team offers design and planning recommendations as preventive measures, plus mitigation tips when necessary.

Explore Our Transportation Solutions

HVAC Air Filtration

HVAC Air Filtration

Since Nalco Water understands your operational goals, we select the best HVAC Air filter technology/solution to meet you...

Water Safety Programs

Water Safety Programs

The very water and mechanical systems that cools your air, supplies your faucets, fills your pools, or feeds your founta...

Supplemental Disinfection

Supplemental Disinfection

Our Environmental Hygiene Services (EHS) Group offers supplemental disinfection of domestic water programs that can effe...

Wastewater Treatment

Wastewater Treatment

We offer a number of tools to efficiently analyze, evaluate, and provide wastewater treatment your entire operation from...

Cooling Water Treatment for Industrial Cooling Water Systems

Cooling Water Treatment for Industrial Cooling Water Systems

Our cooling water treatment solutions are designed to provide proper chemical treatment and preventive maintenance of on...

IoT Asset Performance Management Solutions

IoT Asset Performance Management Solutions

Asset performance management solutions from Ecolab optimize asset performance to drive asset efficiency, reliability and...

Hand Hygiene for Industrial Facilities

Hand Hygiene for Industrial Facilities

Good hand hygiene is key to safeguarding the health of your employees. At Ecolab, we've developed a hand hygiene approac...

Cooling Tower Cleaning and Disinfection

Cooling Tower Cleaning and Disinfection

Our Cooling Tower Cleaning and Disinfection Programs improve intangible papermaking value drivers.

Transportation Customer Success Stories

Aerospace Component Manufacturer Achieves Reliability Across Operations

March 2, 2026

Aerospace Component Manufacturer Achieves Reliability Across Operations

Nalco Water helps deliver visibility and reliability throughout the Aerospace and defense manufacturing supply chain. An...

Saving and Improving the Ethanol Production Process

March 2, 2026

Saving and Improving the Ethanol Production Process

The application of Nalco Water technology generated significant gains in a sugar cane mill, such as the average reductio...

Expert response helps an Electric Vehicle manufacturer avoid downtime after contaminated wastewater incident

March 2, 2026

Expert response helps an Electric Vehicle manufacturer avoid downtime after contaminated wastewater incident

At one electric vehicle assembly plant, the manufacturer aimed to maintain paint shop productivity targets with less tha...

Ford: On the Road to Greater Water Savings with Smart Technology

March 2, 2026

Ford: On the Road to Greater Water Savings with Smart Technology

To enhance efficiency and cut water consumption at its Chicago assembly plant, Ford worked with Nalco Water.

Korean automaker reduces wastewater sludge with expert support from Nalco Water

March 2, 2026

Korean automaker reduces wastewater sludge with expert support from Nalco Water

International automaker achieves cost savings and sustainability gains through wastewater treatment program from Nalco W...

Innovating for a Greener Paint Shop | Story

March 2, 2026

Innovating for a Greener Paint Shop | Story

Through extensive research and rigorous field testing, we developed APEX™ Paint Detackification Technology, the first tr...

Leading global automaker reduces water usage per vehicle by 15% with Water Track IQ™

March 2, 2026

Leading global automaker reduces water usage per vehicle by 15% with Water Track IQ™

A leading automaker reduces water usage per vehicle by 15% at one assembly plant with help from the Water Track IQ™ prog...

Protecting Assets with Fast, Informed Action

March 2, 2026

Protecting Assets with Fast, Informed Action

The Ecolab Global Intelligence Center helped an automotive manufacturer identify an issue that could have damaged a heat...

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