INTERPHEX 2025: Preventing Spills in the Manufacturing Process

Companies want to prevent spills in their manufacturing facilities to avoid losing product, but they would also ideally like to avoid spilling product that is corrosive to the environment. Those were among the key points made by Joe Bobacher, regional sales manager for OPW Engineered Systems in Hamilton, Ohio, in a video interview with Pharmaceutical Technology® Group at the INTERPHEX 2025 conference in New York City.

Bobacher was asked where the greatest demand currently is in the hazardous chemicals industry and what areas those in the field are most seeking improvements.

“When you walk into, whether it's a pharmaceutical plant or a high-end chemical processing plant, the first thing you'll notice is the smell, and companies are moving away from the smell that you find creating those closed loop systems, whether that be a fluid product, whether that be vapor emissions,” Bobacher says in the interview. “So, our products help solve those problems, whether it's an emission situation with regard to vapors that protects the environment [and] the people in the community around that area, those are the products that we sell. And those companies are making their best efforts to come up with those closed loop solutions at their facilities, and we help aid that and support those efforts.”

The 2025 edition of INTERPHEX took place from April 1–3, 2025 in New York City.

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About the speaker

Joe Bobacher, Regional Sales Manager, OPW Engineered Systems

Joe Bobacher is the Northeast Sales Representative for OPW Engineered Systems, headquartered in Hamilton, Ohio. Joe has been serving the industrial fluid transfer market for 20 years. OPW Engineered Systems designs, engineers, and manufactures loading arms, swivel joints, quick and dry disconnects, and other related fluid-transfer equipment. For more information on OPW Engineered Systems, please visit www.opw-es.com.