How CRMS Cut Turnaround Time by 50% for a Midwest Chemical Shipper
Result 50% faster turnaround. Zero production delays. Full kosher compliance.
- 40 tank cars
- Railcar Cleaning — Kosher Certification
- 10 days
- Chemical
The Challenge
A major Midwest chemical shipper needed to transition 40 tank cars from caustic service to food-grade product — fast. Their production line was switching commodities under a tight deadline, and every car needed to be fully cleaned, inspected, and kosher-certified before it could re-enter service.
The previous process involved shipping cars offsite to a fixed cleaning facility — a routing detour that typically added 20 days to the timeline. With production already scheduled and contractual delivery windows looming, that kind of delay wasn't just inconvenient. It was a direct threat to the customer relationship.
They needed someone who could bring the solution to them, not the other way around.
The CRMS Solution
CRMS deployed a mobile cleaning crew directly to the shipper's facility. By eliminating the need to move cars to a fixed location, we removed the single biggest variable in the timeline: transit.
Our team handled the full scope on-site — interior cleaning, product residue removal, steam treatment, final inspection, and kosher certification documentation — without the shipper having to coordinate a single additional vendor.
The whole operation ran concurrently across multiple cars, compressing what had historically been a 20-day sequential process into a 10-day parallel one. When the last car cleared inspection, it went straight back into service.
The Results
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"CRMS brought the operation to us instead of making us reroute 40 cars offsite. That one decision saved our production schedule."