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9999 - REACH Registration Compliance
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Download this certification about MicroCare products and the REACh regulations. All MicroCare products available in Europe are REACh-pre-registered.
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9999 - Certification of RoHS and WEEE Compliance
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This document confirms that no MicroCare products are made with nor contain materials restricted under the RoHS and WEEE regulations.
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2010 - Saving $11,000++ a Month with MicroCare Cleaners
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Case Study #139 -- A large, high-speed contract anodizing company treats more than
17 million parts each month. Stamping oils coat the parts, so nearly every items requires a preliminary degreasing prior to treatment. Until recently, this degreasing
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2008 - Stencil Cleaning Improvements (French)
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This summary report, in French, describes the developments of the Fine-Pitch Stencil Paper from MicroCare and the benefits it can deliver to customers.
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2008 - Rethink Your Cleaning Processes
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Aqueous cleaners are large, slow, expensive energy hogs. There is a better way, if you're willing to think outside the box a little bit.
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2008 - Proper Fiber Optic Cleaning Procedures
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Companies around the world have been using alcohol and wipes to clean fiber optic connectors, to generally substandard results. This report, based on input from a wide variety of IPC, SPIE, BICSI and other contributors.
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2008 - New Solvents for Global Warming
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After four years of research, DuPont has commercialized a totally new type of solvent for vapor degreasing that boosts results and reduces costs.
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2008 - Energy Savings from Vapor Degreasing
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With rising energy and electrical costs, low-energy vapor degreasing makes increasingly good sense to many engineers. If an aqueous cleaner is reaching the end of it's service life, this would be a good time to look at vapor degreasing.
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2008 - Dip-and-Brush Cleaning Debunked
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Engineers around the world specify dip-and-brush cleaning for their rework techs. This report shows simply how bad an idea that really is, and offers simple, affordable suggestions to fix the problem.
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2007 - Cost-Effective Vapor Degreasing
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Some tips and techniques and vapor degreasing catches it's stride and returns to industry as a reliable, fast, safe, cost-effective replacement for aqueous cleaners.
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2005 - More Developments in Understencil Cleaning
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The experts at MicroCare report on even more new developments with the DuPont papers.
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2005 - Flat Wipes -- the Oldest Cleaning Tool
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MicroCare experts review all of the choices for flat wipes, from simple rags to high-tech fabrics, and match their strengths, weaknesses and prices.
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2004 - Research into New Stencil Cleaning Options
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By the late 1990s, automatic stencil cleaning was a mandatory feature in modern SMT production. But defects were common and yields low, so DuPont set out to see if they could invent a better mousetrap. Their findings turned the industry upside down
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2004 - Case Study on New Product Development - Fiber Optic Cleaners
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The problems facing the telecom industry are microscopic and gargantuan -- the tiniest fleck of dust will bring giant networks to their knees. This report describes the struggles of MicroCare Veep Jay Tourigny as he worked to develop a new cleaning s
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2002 - New Advances for Aerosol Cleaners
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While most companies focus on the problems and benefits of bulk cleaning processes, this article took a close look at the rework bench and found new aerosol options are highly cost-effective and very safe for people. Big progress had been made from t
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2002 - Check Out Your Cleaning Scorecard
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MicroCare returned to the technical journal with this cover story in 2002. Using the metaphor of a golf score card, the authors debate the cleaning choices and define the best way to compare apples to apples: the "cost per part cleaned." A must-read
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1998 - Solvent Choices for Vapor Degreasing
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MicroCare is unique in it's willingness to sell the best products it can find for each customers' applications -- not just what's on the shelf. Here's a review of the available options in 1998, and most of the document is still timely today.
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1998 - How Vapor Phase Cleaning Works
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This is a straight-forward primer on the vapor degreasing process; terms, technologies, costs and options. An essential crib sheet for a young engineer looking to save the company some money.
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1998 - Engineering Checklist for Vapor Degreasers
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Vapor degreasing is a powerful cleaning tool that fell out of favor in the 1980s as ozone-depleting solvents were phased-out. Now, as new planet-friendly solvents are being introduced to market it makes sense that engineers take a second look at this
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1996 - Magavox Selects MicroCare Cleaners
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Maganvox had a huge electronics assembly presence in the US in 1996. Their engineers researched their options and found the cleaning answers from MicroCare were the most cost-effective option for their far-flung operations.
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1995 - Motorola Analyzes Their Rework Process and Makes an Unusual Selection
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This report, prepared by Motorola engineers in Scotland, documents their efforts to find a effective ozone-safe solvent and a better cleaning method for the rework technicians.
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1995 - Modern Defluxers for SMT Circuitry
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The repair techs are perhpas the single most often overlooked function when engineers are selecting new solders, fluxes and solvents. The advent of SMT designs made rework tougher in the 1990s, just as surface mount components were making their first
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1994 - New Developments with Nonflammable Solvents
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Contact cleaning is the holy grail of electronics cleaning -- nonflammable, nonconductive, plastic-safe and fast drying. These tough requirements were overwhelmed and ignored in the rush away from CFCs, but new developments in the early 1990s made ne
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1993 - Straight Talk About the Problems with No-Clean Soldering Materials
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No-clean fluxes were new in the early 1990s, and production problems were commonplace. This report is an attempt to set the record straight, and correct some of the mis-information being spread in the market by people selling no-clean fluxes.
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1992 - Ozone-Friendly Electronics Cleaning
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In the early 1990s, CFC-based solvents were used everywhere for defluxing circuit boards. In fact, many mil-specs were written with only CFC-based solvents or alcohol as acceptable cleaning alternatives. This report demonstrates the progress industry
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1992 - New U.S. Regulations Affect Electronic Assembly in the E.U.
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This report documents two different strategies to phase-out CFC solvents. In the European Union, regulations simply banned their use in many benchtop applications but permitted them in others. In the U.S., market forces were used to create economic i
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1992 - New Developments in Ozone-Safe Cleaning
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This report, initially issued in 1992, documents the numerous emerging alternatives to CFC-based, ozone-depleting solvents available at that time.
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1991 - CFC Cleaners Phased Out by Maquiladors Factories in Mexico
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Many maquiladora manufacturers in northern Mexico are phasing out of CFC-based, ozone-depleting solvents in an effort to improve their environmental responsiveness.
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