Industrial Cleaning/Waste Removal
This category includes tools and devices used in the safe cleaning and removal of harmful waste materials generated during the fabricating process. Fabricated metalworking processes can generate several different hazardous waste streams, such as oily wastes, heavy metal pollutants generated from surface treatment and plating, air pollutants from welding operations, cooling lubricants, varnishes, paints, and other contaminants. Equipment used in the cleaning of industrial wastes can include salvage drums, heating chambers, waste oil containers, coolant recycling systems, etc.
Cleanliness is a Virtue
This old proverb rings true for your plant more than ever: Take a closer look at how good housekeeping practices positively impact profit, productivity and purpose in metalworking operations.
This old proverb rings true for your plant more than ever: Take a closer look at how good housekeeping practices positively impact profit, productivity and purpose in metalworking operations.
A complete coolant recycling system can improve profits, tool life, workplace safety and regulatory compliance. Maximizing its effectiveness starts with the most important and essential piece of equipment, followed by three options for coolant management and monitoring.
Though scrap metal is often regarded as a waste or by-product from fabrication operations, it is actually a viable revenue source – in fact, it is the second largest revenue source next to the finished product. This is why shops should have a formal management system in place to maximize the revenue they generate from scrap.
Not all conveying systems are suited for every scrap-handling application. By using the proper conveyor to quickly transfer scrap and coolant from the machine tool for separation and processing, high volume machine shops can increase part production with less downtime between jobs, create more value for their scrap, and improve revenue by recycling coolant.
Where stainless steel and aluminum is concerned, there has been a drift away from traditional wire brushes and harsh chemical cleaning solutions in favor of more efficient, environment-friendly electrochemical weld cleaning technologies that make more economic and safety sense than other costlier, traditional and sometimes toxic methods.
MicroCare Corp.’s Tergo metal cleaning fluid (MCF) avoids the regulatory issues of solvent-based vapor degreasers. By removing just enough binder to prevent damage during final sintering, the degreaser facilitates advanced processes such as additive manufacturing and injection molding.
Madison Chemical’s phosphate-free Aluma-Cling Blue eliminates having to brush by hand to clean bright aluminum and stainless steel. Clean-Gard 83 is an alkaline detergent that produces low-to-moderate foam, making it ideal for cleaning via ultrasonic cavitation.
With its low surface tension, D-Greeze 500 from Solvent Kleene easily removes lubricating oils, grease and other contaminants from blind holes, small orifice openings and other tight surfaces after machining.
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