Product category:
Cleaning media and cleaning systems
News Release from: 3M Speciality Materials | Subject: Novec Engineered Fluids
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 August 2002
Chlorinated solvents replaced in
cleaning
Engineered fluids provide high performance cleaning and overcome the safety and environmental concerns associated with chlorinated solvents.
The superior performance, safety and environmental properties of 3M Novec Engineered Fluids for cleaning, tube swelling, silicone deposition and water displacement applications is evidenced by the recent decisions of some leading Irish medical device manufacturers, to adopt them for their processes Brennan and Co., the 3M Distributor in Ireland, is now supplying these HFE-based Novec solvents to Stryker Instuments, Tyco Healthcare and Meridian Medical Technologies Ltd Surgical devices manufacturer, Stryker Instruments found its optimum cleaning solution with Novec HFE-71DE, which it is using in Kerry Microsolve 350 equipment with ultrasonics
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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To comply with the regulatory ban on the use of HCFCs, Tyco Healthcare at Tullamore required an effective solvent replacement for silicone tube swelling applications.
Here again Novec HFE-71DE proved to be the ideal long-term alternative which met all the performance, safety and environmental criteria.
Since replacing CFC-113 (Freon) in its processes, Meridian Medical Technologies, a leading supplier of single-use auto-injectors, has adopted the use of Novec HFE-7100 with Promosol HFE-71DS1 for effective water displacement after the aqueous cleaning of sensitive components.
Throughout manufacturing industry, 3M Novec Engineered Fluids are becoming widely recognised as an ideal long-term replacement for nPB, Trike, HCFC-141b, HCFC-225 and other chlorinated solvents.
In addition to their excellent performance characteristics, they are non-flammable, low in toxicity, have zero ozone depletion potential and low global warming potential.
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