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Metal Pretreatment Chemicals Manufacturers

May 2, 2014/in Metal Pretreatment Chemicals Manufacturers/by Industrial Degreasers

A select few chemical manufacturers offer metal pretreatment services, and this single stage organic phosphate service is helping reduce the cost and environmental impact of pretreating metal substrates. A metal pretreatment service with only a single step? How can that possibly be effective? One common misunderstanding that has been based on conventional technology in decades past is that a single-stage metal pretreatment process cannot possibly yield positive results. You see, in a conventional system, each stage of chemical metal pretreatment performs a different function, and therefore, cannot be combined with another stage. Thus, a single-stage water-based system would accomplish only one step, such as cleaning, but not other vital steps that include rinsing, phosphating, or the application of a sealant. However, this single-stage organic phosphating system that is the topic of this blog is not water-based, and all steps can be combined because of the different kind of chemistry involved. Several different functions can now be performed in the same amount of time it would take a conventional chemical metal pretreatment process, including oil solubilizing, the washing of parts by solvents, and phosphoric treating – to name a few. For a more in depth process of the operational capacity of metal pretreatment, the chemicals used in pretreatment, and the manufacturers that offer this type of service, contact Ecolink.

Speaking of Ecolink, this green alternative solutions company is completely behind this new process of metal pretreatment because it signals the development of an environmentally sound technology that delivers two main features that sum up the core mission and values of Ecolink – the process offers incredible advantages to industrial businesses, and it does so in an eco friendly, green alternative manner. The technology behind this chemical pretreatment process works to minimize the pollution potential of the original pretreatment process, as well as make the entire service much more advantageous by serving multiple steps at a time rather than just one, which also reduces the amount of time needed to complete the service. This new chemical metal pretreatment service has examined and fixed any possible negative impact it could have on our environmental systems, including water, soil, and air. The operation has successfully minimized the negative effects on all of these eco systems, instead of sacrificing one for the other, which conventional operations unfortunately did.

Please have a member of your industrial business contact Ecolink, and one of our representatives will happily provide much more detail on this system, along with how you can find metal pretreatment chemical manufacturers that can provide this wonderful solution. An Ecolink professional will also explain in more detail the benefits involved to using this metal pretreatment process, including its environmental efficiency, resource recovery solutions, and material substitution process. If you are a part of an industrial business needed a metal pretreatment manufacturer, Ecolink has the answer for you.

What is Chemical Leasing?

April 26, 2014/in Chemical Leasing/by Industrial Degreasers

To 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?

April 23, 2014/in Vapor Degreasing/by Industrial Degreasers

In short, a vapor degreaser is a type of surface finishing process – a kind of industrial solution that works to alter the surface of a manufactured product or material in order to manipulate certain properties of the item – involving specific solvents that will work to clean the industrial parts so that they are ready for their intended operation. The solvent is in vapor form, hence the name “vapor degreaser.” The theory behind the process of vapor degreasing is that the solvents used in the makeup of the vapor degreaser will dissolve any and all potentially inhibiting particles and contaminants on the industrial products, and remove those operational inhibitors by dripping them from the industrial parts.

The steps taken to perform vapor degreasing are as follows:

The industrial company will set up a solvent basin that has been combined with a heating coil that will boil the solvent.
The solvent will then eventually evaporates, and the vapor produced will rise into the chamber that has been put in place to catch the vapor to where it affects the industrial component.
Essentially, the vaporized solvent will be in a closed space where the industrial component has been placed.
The condensed degreasing solvent will then adhere onto the industrial part, dissolving the dirt, grime, grease, and other contaminants found on the industrial part.
The impurities will eventually be contained within the liquid beads formed from the vapor, and the degreasing solvent will run down the industrial component and drip off.

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

April 17, 2014/in Chemical waste, Industrial Degreasers, Toxic Chemicals/by Industrial Degreasers

Industrial degreasers and cleaning solutions are made up of an amalgamation of chemical compounds that can rid industrial products of dirt, rust, stains, and any type of particles that could inhibit the industrial components from working as intended. For some industrial businesses, the information stated in the previous sentence is as far as their knowledge extends concerning the industrial degreasers and cleaning solvents. When the process of cleaning industrial products with industrial degreasers is complete, there is always excess degreasing solvent remaining that needs to be disposed. So, what happens to this excess waste? Unfortunately, due to the ignorance of the harmful nature of some industrial degreasers and cleaning agents, the excess degreasing solvent is not properly disposed. In many cases, the excess waste is merely tossed out with other forms of trash, or even poured out somewhere outside. Sounds like the making for an environmental movie, or one you recently watched? Well, unfortunately the previously written statement rings true. However, it should be clear that most companies that engage in this type of waste removal do not realize how truly harmful and impactful it can be to the environment, because they do not understand the chemicals that go into making industrial degreasers. Some industrial degreasing liquids can destroy soil, grass, and trees, make water poisonous to aquatic life, and the gas and vapor emitted from the industrial degreasers weakens our already depleting ozone.

This 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?

April 11, 2014/in Industrial Cleaning Solutions, industrial green cleaning products/by Industrial Degreasers

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.