Clean/Pretreat

As indicated in a recent LinkedIn post (Ref 1), perchloroethylene “creeps” – it has favorable wetting properties that allow access to residue in tight spaces.

A July 18 webinar will focus on “Successful Cleaning Processes without Heavily Regulated Solvents.”

It would be terrific to have a numerical comparison of how effective various cleaning agents are at removing soils.

A webinar on May 23 will look at solvent cleaning to reduce costs and improve sustainability.

Chlorinated and fluorinated — including Group 7 elements — solvents have enjoyed decades of popularity as robust and efficient means of cleaning parts as a first critical step in many metal finishing processes.

Brenk Brothers is in Fridley, Minnesota, and is a 3^rd-generation precision machining company. 

Jeff Beard of Jayco Cleaning Technologies discusses their single-basket washer system, which many surface finishing operations have found significantly helps in part cleaning.

A free webinar on navigating new solvent regulations in parts cleaning will be held on May 7 at 11:00 a.m. ET.

Change can be an unwanted headache many would rather not deal with unless forced to. 

Joshua McClellan is a Business Development Engineer at Hubbard-Hall.

The term “degreaser” is confusing as any cleaning chemistry or cleaning process that removes oils and greases is doing the task of degreasing.

With the U.S. EPA proposing to ban all uses of trichloroethylene in cleaning and vapor degreasing, many finishers wonder what alternatives they may have.

Barbara Kanegsberg is President of BFK Solutions, an industry leader in critical cleaning consulting in the finishing industry.

Bath maintenance is crucial to any finishing operation’s cleaning process.

Product manufacturers are likely to change the product cleaning process in the next two to five years.

More finishing operations want to move from solvent to aqueous as part of their cleaning operations.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to ban all uses of trichloroethylene (TCE), which is used in cleaning and vapor degreasing.

Rust and corrosion inhibitors are characterized by their chemical type, optimum use, and related properties.

Vapor degreasing is a crucial method in various industrial operations for the precision cleaning of metal components.

Changing to a new product cleaning process costs time and money.

When we see clients, one of the first questions we ask is: Why?

After a recent program, a concerned attendee wanted to know: “Is there perchloroethylene in my aqueous cleaning agent?”