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MERRY CHRISTMAS
Games, food and fun at this year’s Christmas party. The Meritage was great as always, their…
EXPLAINING WHY ENGINEERS SHOULD CHOOSE HYDRATITE
HydraTech was proud to exhibit again at the Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference (OTEC) at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, connecting with…
EXHIBITING AT A TRADESHOW IN OUR OWN BACKYARD
HydraTech exhibited HydraTite® and HydraLock® seals at the Southwest Ohio APWA Trade Show, promoting internal pipe joint…
RENEWING MARINE HYDRAWRAP’S ABS CERTIFICATION
A test application of Marine HydraWrap was inspected and passed, ensuring that the ABS certification…
CLAMPING DOWN ON CORROSION
HydraTech, known for its custom-manufactured solutions like the HydraTite internal pipe joint seal, has recently finished producing a batch of external pipe repair clamps …
DEMO INSTALLATION AT THE OHIO STORMWATER CONFERENCE
Jennifer and Caleb managed HydraTech’s booth at this years Ohio stormwater conference…
HYDRATECH’S BRIDGE PROJECTS ACCROSS MISSISSIPPI
Over the past few weeks, HydaTech has been hard at work repairing bridges across four counties in Mississippi…
WALKING THE WWETT TRADE SHOW
Last week HydraTech attended the 2025 WWETT trade show in Indianapolis Indiana…
2024
ANOTHER YEARS, ANOTHER GREAT CHRISTMAS
In a recent blog post Jennifer shares a few words about our company Christmas party. Between Caleb and herself the event was well documented with pictures.
THIS YEAR’S HALLOWEEN LUNCH
There is always a lot to do at HydraTech, so it is nice to slow down for a little bit and have lunch together. This year we had pizza rather than soup.
PREPARING FOR OUR NEXT HYDRAWRAP PROJECT
In the next couple weeks, we will be applying HydraWrap to the exterior of two vertical digester pipes for a public works department in Wisconsin. Today, we…
BACK AT OTEC
HydraTech exhibited at OTEC again this year, showcasing all the applications HydraTite and HydraLock have in the transportation industry…
WORKING HARD & HAVING FUN
This is one of our more simple jobs. There are only circular seals with only two retaining bands each and the job site has easy access to the culvert…
ALWAYS LEARNING, ALWAYS GROWING
Today Caleb and I attended the “Effective Marketing Plans: Roadmap to Dynamic Growth” seminar hosted by the Goering Center in Cincinnati.
INSTALLING JOINT SEALS OVER A FAILED LINER
Over the last few days, we have been installing seals in this 42” stormwater pipe for the DOT…
INSPECTING A PREVIOUS JOBSITE
Today we returned to two of the fourteen culverts in which HydraTech field paved the invert four years ago…
ATENDING THE 2024 OHIO STORMWATER CONFERENCE
Recently, HydraTech exhibited at the Ohio Stormwater Conference. Jennifer Williams and Caleb…
PUTTING ON ANOTHER HAT
Caleb’s position has shifted a good deal over the years at HydraTech. In this recent blog post, he recaps some of the roles he has played in helping the company succeed.
HYDRATECH RETURNS TO TEXAS
Since it is the first week of March, I was expecting Texas to be very cold since it is still winter. But the weather was very warm, upwards of 80 degrees some days…
REPRESENTING HYDRATECH AT THE WWETT SHOW
I was able to represent HydraTech at the WWETT Trade Show as an exhibitor this year in Indianapolis with over 600 other exhibitors…
OVERSEEING A THREE-SIDED SEAL INSTALLATION
A sanitary treatment facility discovered a leak in their influent conduit. They decided a three-sided HydraTite seal was the best rehabilitation solution…
RECOGNIZING THE EMPLOYEES WHO GOT US HERE
When Huntington Specialized Products decided to close its Cincinnati Location at the end of 2008 several employees decided they did not want to…
2023
CHRISTMAS 2023
Another busy year has come and passed. HydraTech got together for the annual Christmas Lunch at deSha’s American Tavern. I was in charge of most of the games and made sure this…
9 COMMON REASONS PIPES FAIL
Pressure changes, temperature fluctuations, movement, defective installation, root invasion, excavation incidents, internal build-up, sun exposure, or corrosion….
SOUP IS ON
Today was a lot of fun. I got the option to come into work dressed up and decided to be Link from the Legend Of Zelda. My wife and son were able to join us for lunch.
ANOTHER YEAR EXHIBITING AT OTEC
OTEC was hosted at the Greater Columbus Convention Center and we were one of the many booths that exhibited. However, we were…
OUR BOOTH AT THE APWA TRADE SHOW
I had the pleasure of representing HydraTech Engineered Products at the APWA Trade Show this year in Dayton, OH with my colleague, Caleb Rutledge.
COMPANY LUNCH
Between the day-to-day tasks, it can become easy for me to ostracize myself in a mound of work. I appreciate the frequent company-wide events help pull me out of this.
TEAM BUILDING WITH MINI GOLF
Before everyone leaves for the Memorial Day weekend we got together to share a potluck lunch.
REMEMBERING & HONORING OUR MEN & WOMAN WHO SERVED
Before everyone leaves for the Memorial Day weekend we got together to share a potluck lunch.
CONCRETE CONFINEMENT UTILIZING FIBERGLASS
A new bridge deck had been installed and the client wanted to wrap the 15 columns.
ENHANCING OUR PARKING LOT
Between field service jobs, the field crew frequently takes on maintenance projects. The most recent project was replacing some aging blacktop right…
FINISHING UP ONE OF OUR BIG PROJECTS
Two of the three culverts have been completed. We are working in the last four by six-foot culvert to install the remaining 23 seals…
EXPLAINING HYDRATITE’S INSTALLATION
Infiltration led to the formation of sinkholes in Scott Depot, West Virginia. The City reached out to a local contractor to inspect the pipes below…
RECOGNIZING THE EMPLOYEES WHO GOT US HERE
When Huntington Specialized Products decided to close its Cincinnati Location at the end of 2008 several employees decided they did not want to…
NEVER STOP IMPROVING
During the earlier months we make sure the crew is trained up for the coming spring. On top of this we have been improving our company’s building to become more efficient.
GOING TO WWETT
HydraTech did not exhibit at WWETT this year but four of us did walk the trade show and HydraTite was on display at the Cretex booth.
PREPARING FOR ANOTHER BUSY YEAR
HydraTech is starting off this year like many before, retraining our crew on the basics. Recently we completed a first aid class, a fiber wrap application…
STARTING ANOTHER STAGE OF LIFE
I have worked at HydraTech for just over two years. Infrastructure repair was a shift from what I had been doing before, teaching mandarin sign…
2022
CHRISTMAS 2022
HydraTech had an even better year than last year and we got together for our annual Christmas celebration to celebrate. We gathered for a delicious lunch, party games, and a gift exchange.
FINISHING OUR WORK IN BUFFALO
HydraTech recently completed a project that lasted a year and a half. During that time nearly 1,000 HydraTite seals were…
TOWNSHIP TRAINING & INSTALLATION
HydraTech recently trained township personnel on the installation process for the HydraTite seal.
REPAIRING RUSTED CULVERT INVERTS
HydraTech has continued to restore culverts by clearing out and paving their inverts.
DIGGING DEEP TO PROTECT OHIO’S ROADS
HydraTech utilized the HydraTite seal to rehabilitate 67 joints in 8 different locations throughout Ohio’s District 7. Some were close…
HYDRATECH’S BOOTH AT OTEC 2022
I had the opportunity to attend the 2022 Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference last week. It is considered one…
ATTENDING ENERUM
Exhibitors come to Columbus to represent all energy sectors within generation, transmission, and distribution.
CELEBRATING MEMORIAL DAY
HydraTech took time on Friday during lunch to eat together in memory of those who have died in service to our country. The main course of…
CRETEX SPECIALTY PRODUCTS SALES MEETING
On Monday, May 23rd Cretex hosted all their representatives from around the country and some vendors at their headquarters in Pewaukee, Wi.
OHIO STORMWATER CONFERENCE 2022
HydraTech attended the Ohio Stormwater conference and displayed HydraTite and HydraLock…
COMPANY GAME NIGHT
We were lucky enough to get an event set up with the Holiday Auto Theatre, one of Ohio’s last drive-in movie theaters.
STAYING SHARP
We train our field crew on everything that HydraTech does, over and over and over. The goal is to keep everyone working well together, develop and implement fresh ideas…
TRAVELING TO LYNNWOOD WASHINGTON FOR A HYDRATITE INSTALL DEMO
HydraTech provided seals and installation training to a client in Lynnwood Washington.
INSTALLING HUNDREDS OF SEALS IN BUFFALO NEW YORK
HydraTech has been working on miles of cast-iron pipes below Buffalo New York for about…
FRIDAY POTLUCK
HydraTech is making time for team-building activities in 2022. Starting in February, we have set the first Friday of every month as a day all employees can attend a…
WORKING WITH STATE DOTS
To get the seal used by more state DOTs, my plan is to get HydraTite recognized by state DOTs as a qualified or approved product…
2021
HYDRATITE, MORE THAN A JOINT SEAL
Cured in place piping (CIPP) is frequently chosen as a solution of aging pipes experiencing infiltration as it costs less than replacement. This repair method…
CHRISTMAS 2021
HydraTech got together at the Century Inn, just a short drive from the Cincinnati office. It was one of the only times of the entire year that the majority of the employees were in the same…
NEW WATER MAIN REHABILITATION STANDARDS
The American Water Works Associations is working on the fourth edition of the M28 standards for water main rehabilitation.
GETTING BACK INTO TRADE SHOWS
As the world begins the long process of opening back up, HydraTech is starting to get back out there. OTEC was…
PROTECTING AN UNDERWATER BOX CULVERT’S JOINTS
A settled conduit was leaking at the expansion joints. This concrete…
BACK IN THE FIELD
A twin culvert’s joints were raising concerns for the roadway above and HydraTech was called in to install the HydraTite seal on ten joints. The job…
THREE-SIDED HYDRATITE SEAL
This large drainage system was experiencing infiltration at the joints and this was in turn threatening the safety of the above major highway. The roadway and…
IRREGULAR PIPE JOINT REPAIR
A culvert in New Vineyard, ME had been experiencing significant infiltration at multiple joints, leading to joint separation, erosion issues….
OPPRESSIVE HEAT DID NOT STOP HYDRATECH
HydraTech was called in to install four 60″ Extra Wide HydraTite Internal Pipe Joint Seals in a heat vent to ensure that the…
2020
2020 CHRISTMAS
HydraTech’s employees got together for a socially distanced dinner and holiday themed games…
CULVERT REHAB IN NORTHERN OHIO
A culvert in northern Ohio had been slowly degrading under a roadway. The shifting…
HYDRAULIC JUMPS REPAIRS
HydraTech Field Services jumps on this two week project and completes it in half the time.
FIBER WRAPPING A BRDIGE’S COLUMNS
HydraTech Field Services goes out to strengthen 3 columns on a bridge over State Route 320…
HYDRAWRAP INSTALLATION DEMO
HydraTech Engineered Products employees put down phones and files to pick up brushes and fiber glass…
HYDRATECH WINS ODOT CONTRACT WITH COST SAVING HYDRATITE
HydraTech Engineered Products has been awarded the contract for Liner/Cured-In-Place-Pipe/Joint Seals contract (CIPP) 315 A-21.
HYDRATITE JOINT SEALS
Hydratech Field Services is always up for a challenge. Hydratech was called in to install custom made Hydratite Joint Seals for a farming irrigation system job that…
