Almost every industrial organization has a method of industrial cleaning in place to clean and remove dirt, grime, grease, stains, rust, and all other harmful particles from parts, metals, materials, and many other types of industrial components before those products are put into service. Industrial cleaning is a very important method of the industrial design, build, and supply process because almost all industrial products must be completely cleaned of hazardous particles, otherwise a particular product might not function as intended or needed, rendering an entire operation ineffective, just because of one piece. Therefore, industrial businesses must be sure they have a reliable source of cleaning and degreasing service in place in order to prevent any such negative or preventive affectation from happening.
Industrial cleaning usually involves a chemical solution, or solvent, which is made up of a chemical compound in liquid form that can be applied to the industrial products for cleaning purposes. Once the chemical cleaning and degreasing agent is applied to the product, after time, it should be completely free from any and all inhibiting agents. Chemical solutions are usually designed by chemists and scientists who understand the emulsion process of compounds, and what can be derived or extracted when combining two chemical components. This process will elicit a liquid cleaning and degreasing solution that will clean industrial components.
However, certain methods of chemical cleaning, especially the process of creating liquid cleaning and degreasing solutions, have come under fire by certain organizations, such as the EPA and OSHA, concerning the safety of many of the chemicals that are in use or serve as a primary ingredient in the solvents. It is true that many chemical compounds can be hazardous to the environment, as well as to those who come into contact with them or even come in close proximity to the gases and vapors the chemicals emit. That is why companies like Ecolink are exercising due diligence into the chemical compounds that are used for industrial cleaning, and offering eco friendly, green alternative cleaning and degreasing solutions that are as effective for removing harmful particles from industrial products.
Ecolink understands how important industrial cleaning is to the entire process of industrial designing and building, which is why the company strives to keep industrial cleaning and degreasing solutions an integral part to the process, but instead use chemical solvents that are safe for people and for the environment. Ecolink has discovered several solvents still in use that are deemed unsafe. However, Ecolink provides industrial businesses alternative solutions to the solvent currently in use, and will help the industrial organization make a seamless transition to the eco friendly, green alternative.
Contact Ecolink to find out if your industrial cleaning solution is indeed safe for use. If not, Ecolink professionals will provide new and improved industrial cleaning solvents from which you can choose, and help you make an easy switch.
What is Chemical Leasing?
/in Chemical Leasing/by Industrial DegreasersTo those of you involved in industrial business practices who might be unfamiliar with the business practice of chemical leasing, this blog will hopefully shed some light on the practice, because it can make a big difference for your industrial business. First, chemical leasing involves a chemical company that supplies its developed chemical(s) for a specific purpose, making a chemical available for use to a client or customer, but that chemical company retains the rights and ownership of that chemical. At first, this might sound like a questionable business practice to industrial businesses that use certain chemicals to clean and degrease industrial parts, metals, and materials of particles and contaminants that prove harmful to an industrial components intended use. However, the intention of chemical leasing is to improve the economical and environmental factors involved in the use of chemical agents to clean and degrease industrial components. Essentially, the producer of a chemical makes available the functionality of a chemical, but not the chemical itself. Why? Well, chemical leasing allows for the sustainable management of chemicals. Some may read this and feel as though it is a method of policing industrial organizations. However, the truth is chemical uses are constantly changing. Putting those who developed the science behind the produced chemicals responsible for making the necessary changes or improvements on the chemicals in use, or even recalling or terminating its use if it has been found that the compounds that make up the chemical are hazardous to people and/or to the environment ensures that safety is optimized.
It has been determined that industrial businesses who use chemical components to clean and degrease industrial parts, metals, and materials do not keep up to date with changes in the effects and ramifications of using certain chemical compounds. You see, sometimes when a chemical has been put in commercial use several years ago, it can still have discoveries made on it several years later that would require changes made to the chemical, and more often than not the scientists behind the creation of the chemicals are usually the ones making the discovery, or the ones first notifies. Unfortunately, the industrial organizations using the chemical, that has been recently found to be potentially harmful, are the last ones to know about the news, and keep the chemical in use a long time after it has been determined to be unsafe. Moreover, some industrial businesses are so happy with the cleaning and degreasing elements to the chemical it uses that there is hesitance to replace it with something else, even if it has been determined as hazardous. By placing the onus of monitoring the compounding agents used in creating certain chemicals on the chemical company through the practice of chemical leasing, it is easier to stop the use of specific chemicals and make the necessary changes to ensure no harmful agents are in commercial use.
For more about chemical leasing, contact Ecolink. Ecolink can help you better understand the business model associated with chemical leasing, and can ensure your company takes full advantage of the benefits associated with chemical leasing.
What Does a Vapor Degreaser do?
/in Vapor Degreasing/by Industrial DegreasersThe steps taken to perform vapor degreasing are as follows:
Lately, many industrial businesses that offer vapor degreasing services have devised supplemental systems and methods to the vapor degreasing process that make it more economical, which involves capturing and reclaiming the degreasing solvent so that it can be used repeatedly. Other adaptations to enhance the vapor degreasing system have been made, including the use of several tanks to improve and speed up the rinsing of solvents, and the use of a degreasing solvent spray that coats the industrial part prior to entry into the chamber to loosen tougher contaminants that are attached to the industrial component, hasten the entire process, and to help more complex parts become clean.
Why use a vapor degrading process to clean industrial parts over other cleaning and degreasing processes? Probably the most important quality to vapor cleaning and degreasing methods is that vapor degreasing can be used on electronic items to remove non-water soluble particles because water that can disrupt or even break electronic devices is not used. As you know, most electronic devices are very fragile, and often quite expensive. The only safe method of cleaning these items is through vapor degreasing.
To learn more about how vapor degreasing may work to solve your industrial company’s cleaning and degreasing needs, contact Ecolink. Ecolink understands the process and the “how to” related to vapor degreasers, and can explain the process to your company to see if it is indeed the right fit for what you need for your industrial parts.
Industrial Degreasers that will Change the way you Think About Waste
/in Chemical waste, Industrial Degreasers, Toxic Chemicals/by Industrial DegreasersThis is why environmentally conscious organizations such as Ecolink are working tirelessly to change the way industrial companies think about waste, as it pertains to industrial degreasers and cleaning solvents. One of the ways companies like Ecolink are battling this waste travesty is by educating industrial businesses on their industrial cleaning practices, which includes the discovering of whether their industrial degreasers have hazardous chemicals, and if so, how to make the transition away from toxic chemicals and towards eco friendly, green alternative cleaning solutions. Eco friendly, green alternative industrial degreasers can be disposed of in a much more simplified manner, without the worry of later ramifications. Ecolink strives to inform all industrial companies of harmful chemical compound cleaning solvents that are still in use, along with solvents where the use for cleaning purposes has been terminated by regulatory committees. If your industrial organization fall under either of those two categories, Ecolink will help your company transition to an eco friendly, green alternative industrial degreaser that will no only clean better than what you currently use, but will also be economically cheaper in the long run.
Ecolink specializes in chemical management. They have a unique team of individuals who will inventory your company’s current chemical supply and evaluate monthly usage and waste disposal costs. Every company can benefit from evaluating their chemical cleaning needs since Ecolink can find chemical alternatives, or substitutions for your current products. Ecolink is confident that your business will save money either in the cost of chemicals being used or your waste disposal charges.
Please, do not wait for Ecolink to find you. If you have any concerns or reservations about the industrial degreasers your company use, please call Ecolink, and allow their professionals to assist you in the switch to a safer more cost effective alternatives.
What is Industrial Cleaning?
/in Industrial Cleaning Solutions, industrial green cleaning products/by Industrial DegreasersIndustrial cleaning usually involves a chemical solution, or solvent, which is made up of a chemical compound in liquid form that can be applied to the industrial products for cleaning purposes. Once the chemical cleaning and degreasing agent is applied to the product, after time, it should be completely free from any and all inhibiting agents. Chemical solutions are usually designed by chemists and scientists who understand the emulsion process of compounds, and what can be derived or extracted when combining two chemical components. This process will elicit a liquid cleaning and degreasing solution that will clean industrial components.
However, certain methods of chemical cleaning, especially the process of creating liquid cleaning and degreasing solutions, have come under fire by certain organizations, such as the EPA and OSHA, concerning the safety of many of the chemicals that are in use or serve as a primary ingredient in the solvents. It is true that many chemical compounds can be hazardous to the environment, as well as to those who come into contact with them or even come in close proximity to the gases and vapors the chemicals emit. That is why companies like Ecolink are exercising due diligence into the chemical compounds that are used for industrial cleaning, and offering eco friendly, green alternative cleaning and degreasing solutions that are as effective for removing harmful particles from industrial products.
Ecolink understands how important industrial cleaning is to the entire process of industrial designing and building, which is why the company strives to keep industrial cleaning and degreasing solutions an integral part to the process, but instead use chemical solvents that are safe for people and for the environment. Ecolink has discovered several solvents still in use that are deemed unsafe. However, Ecolink provides industrial businesses alternative solutions to the solvent currently in use, and will help the industrial organization make a seamless transition to the eco friendly, green alternative.
Contact Ecolink to find out if your industrial cleaning solution is indeed safe for use. If not, Ecolink professionals will provide new and improved industrial cleaning solvents from which you can choose, and help you make an easy switch.
AK-225 Phase out: Find a Safe Alternative Now
/in AK225/by Industrial DegreasersThe eco friendly, green alternative industrial solution that can replace AK-225, and even clean and degrease with more efficiency is called FluoSolv WS. FluoSolv WS is a non flammable and non toxic chemical cleaning and degreasing solution that has already become a replacement for older, hazardous cleaning and degreasing agents such as N-propyl Bromide, or nPB, and Trichloroethylene, also known as TCE. Now, FluoSolv WS is considered the best replacement solution for AK-225. This chemical solvent has a very high allowable exposure limit, making it a safe cleaning and degreasing agent for uses that include wipe and dip cleaners. FluoSolv WS provides outstanding solubility for fluorinated and hydrocarbon oils and grease. This solvent is compatible with almost any type of metals, glass, ceramics, and elastomers. Another important reason why FluoSolv WS is the chosen solution to replace AK-225 has to do with its zero ozone depleting potential – the opposite of what was wrong with using AK-225.
For more details and specifications regarding FluoSolv WS, you are encouraged to contact Ecolink. Ecolink professionals have conducted their due diligence on FluoSolv WS, and can assist any industrial agency needing to make a transition to an alternative cleaner and degreaser by providing an abundance of information on the solvent, or by helping with the transition to the new solution, or both. Ecolink is considered a valuable resource for replacing harmful cleaners and degreasers. They develop and create green cleaners and degreasers, as well as aiding in the transition from a harmful solvent to a safe solution.
Industrial organizations still using AK-225 should not delay any longer. Allow Ecolink to help you make the switch to a safe alternative now – the FluoSolv WS cleaning and degreasing solution. Once you make the change, you will be providing a safety service to your workforce and to the environment. Call 800-409-3142