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News Release from: Virotec | Subject: Smart Multiple Door System degreaser
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 March 2004
Tool specialist benefits from smart
degreasing
Smart degreasing system has significantly reduced solvent consumption and improved cleaning performance and safety at a tooling specialist's factory.
A new degreasing system installed by Virotec has significantly reduced solvent consumption and improved cleaning performance and safety at tool specialist G and J Hall Virotec's "Smart Multiple Door System" combines traditional, highly effective immersion degreasing methods with advanced principles of solvent containment
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The system was installed at G and J Hall's Sheffield plant in October to comply with solvent legislation and to provide optimum health and safety for operators using re-classified trichloroethylene.
Ray Booth, Works Director, G and J Hall, said: "With the technical and professional support of Virotec we were able to carry out a detailed assessment of our degreasing needs and change our cleaning system to achieve a significant reduction in solvent consumption.
"On advice from Virotec, we have also changed our degreasing process to stacked liquid and vapour immersion which has provided substantial improvement in our degreasing results." The Smart system was installed to replaced a well used, outdated open top degreaser.
The new system uses less than one tonne of Volatile Organic Compound per annum.
This means that the G and J Hall operation is exempt from the Solvent Emissions Directive Regulations, avoiding the cost of emission monitoring and abatement maintenance.
A fully enclosed facility, the Smart system features an hermetically sealing process door which is interfaced with the ventilation and outer enclosure door to provide control over airborne emissions.
The enclosed nature of the system, with semi-automatic controls, provides optimum safety for the operator.
Safety is further enhanced by the use of closed loop solvent management technology for handling fresh and waste solvent product.
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