Historically, adhesives and bonding pastes are difficult to clean, often requiring acetone, a highly flammable chemical, and complex safety processes to ensure employee wellbeing. These cleaning processes can be wasteful and hazardous due to the extreme flammability of acetone.
Ambimization water-based fluids are non-flammable, non-carcinogenic and non-toxic. They work at ambient temperature and can be used repeatedly before reaching end of life, thus reducing workplace risk, energy consumption, and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC).
Scott Bader used Ambimization to clean the mixing heads and moveable vessels used to manufacture their range of structural adhesives and composite materials. Following the implementation of Ambimization, Scott Bader UK is said to have reduced the use of acetone by 50% in their paste plant, cutting its VOC usage by 99%. The cleaning solution is can be reused up to 20 times, reducing the paste plant’s waste by 75% and its overall water consumption.
Jamie Akister, plant support manager at Scott Bader UK, said: “Scott Bader UK plans to be acetone free for cleaning all vessels in their paste plant by the end of Q1 this year. We have worked hard to implement a solvent free and environmentally friendly cleaning solution in the paste plant and hope to transfer this across the site and global group where applicable.”
Emily Cassius, head of commercial at Terrafend, said: “With Ambimization, manufacturers can reduce their waste outputs by up to 93.3%, decrease VOCs by up to 99.6%, and eliminate solvents entirely.”
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