Degreasing and Cleaning News from Standard Industrial Systems Ltd

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

 

Aerospace Manufacturer Invests For the Future - solvent degreasing - heat exchangers

 

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.

 

 

Aerospace Manufacturer Invests For the Future

HS Marston Aerospace, Wolverhampton

In an ongoing programme to remove Trichloroethylene from it's manufacturing processes
H.S. Marston Aerospace has recently taken delivery of a second hermetically sealed solvent degreasing system from Standard Industrial Systems Ltd.

Having extensively reviewed many alternative processes for the thorough degreasing of both aerospace and Formula One heat exchanger components and assemblies, the Company decided that remaining with organic solvents was the only proven format to ensure cleaning without residual fluid remaining entrapped within the complex geometries typical with this branch of manufacture.

Supported in the UK by Standard Industrial Systems, the unit offers a working envelope of 2.5 metres with the options to programme a combination of spray, immersion and vapour stages according to the components to be cleaned.

In making the vital but necessary move from traditional "open-topped" vapour systems to comply with the strict requirements of the Emissions Directive 1999/13/EC as well as to drastically reduce solvent costs, the Company first of all installed a smaller unit in 2002 to prove the format before committing fully to the Standard Industrial Systems process.

 

 

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.