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Glenn Greenlees is pleased to announce that major aerospace manufacturer C. W. Fletcher of Sheffield is the latest to place a substantial order with Standard Industrial Cleaning Systems Ltd.

The installation will be designed to utilise Trichloroethylene initially in accordance with Rolls Royce specification with the option of switching to perchloroethylene or modified alcohols if required.

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Major Manufacturer Chooses Quality - multi-step in-line aqueous wash plant - automotive

New Prestige Installation Enjoying Success In The UK - multi-step batch aqueous glass washing

Major Manufacturer Chooses Quality

Alcoa Lingotes

Alcoa Lingotes, a UK subsidiary of the Aluminium Company of America, has taken delivery of a multi-step aqueous wash plant from Standard Industrial Systems Ltd. The requirement was to provide a minimal maintenance installation that would give consistently clean component parts in an in-line configuration.

Manufacturing components for a prestigious UK automotive manufacturer, the process consists of a spray wash utilising a 5% solutions of Standard Industrial Systems's EcoSpray 5910 before a rinse phase and a final infrared drying section.

Process integrity and consistency is maintained by a unique process of counter re-fill and automatic chemical dosing.

Standard Industrial Systems continues it's Company policy of supplying only the world's best in both aqueous and solvent cleaning and degreasing technologies.

New Prestige Installation Enjoying Success In The UK

Pilkington Research Centre, Lathom

World-renowned glass manufacturers Pilkington has recently installed a multi-step aqueous wash system for precision cleaning of glass samples at their Lancashire based Research and Development facility.

Supplied by Standard Industrial Systems, the application demanded cleanliness of the highest order before processing in a new
state-of-the art coating installation.

Cleanliness of the washed samples is gauged by measuring the contact angle formed on the glass surface by a sample of pure water injected upon it.

The complex process includes the use of a high quality pure water (1mS/cm) throughout the various stages beginning with an alkaline (Ecospray 5275) followed by an intermediate rinse. A further acid wash is followed by successive rinses and a hot drying facility, all stages being completed within a single chamber without operator intervention after the initial loading. Cross contamination of the various stage fluids has been eliminated by a unique process of counter refills and the continuous automatic dosing of the selected chemical constituents. Both acid and alkaline fluids are combined to form a neutral fluid for disposal, again achieved in-process without operator involvement.