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PCB Repair Depot Reduces Costs With Better Cleaning Tools and Fluids

The ChallengeBenchtop cleaning of PCBs is a tough challenge for process engineers. Dip-and-brush cleaning is an inexpensive but slow method that often leaves residues to migrate across circuits.Traditional high-pressure aerosols are convenient but can be expensive, environmentally wasteful and people don’t like breathing all those fumes. MicroCare offers a better way to clean circuit boards. There…

Midwest Manufacturer Reduces Energy Costs with Vapor Degreasing

Aqueous cleaning is a common and reliable cleaning choice for many companies. But one of the big disadvantages of water cleaning is the cost of electricity. A general rule-of-thumb is that any aqueous cleaning system will use ten times the energy of a vapor degreaser of comparable capacity. Water cleaning systems use far more electricity…

Solvents Tested by NASA for Critical Cleaning Tasks

NASA, the U.S. space agency, has a unique emphasis on reliability. NASA products are extremely expensive, have long operational lives, work with almost infinite sensitivity and operate in the harshest environment of all — outer space. So, it is reasonable that NASA is very cautious about introducing new technologies because problems, if any, may not…

Satellite TV Repair Depot Changes Cleaning; Cuts Costs and Improves Worker Safety

A large repair company in the eastern U.S. is dedicated to maintaining satellite TV set-top boxes on behalf of one of the big satellite operators. This company cleans and repairs about 80,000 set-top boxes monthly. After repairing each box, they would use a fresh lint-free wipe and a liquid spray cleaner on each box to remove…

Using MicroCare Fluids for Dewaxing in Metal Injection Molding (MIM)

Dewaxing Process Enables Major Improvement in Through-put and SafetyA MicroCare client was among the very first companies in the US to deploy Opteon™ SF79 fluid. Importantly, this product isn’t used in a traditional degreasing application but in another process. It is used to remove wax from parts made using metal injection molding (MIM). This innovation helps the company…

LCS Company moves to a safer cleaning alternative with support from DGB Sales and MicroCare

Steve Schmidt, Vice President at LCS Company was looking for a safer way to clean the custom metal stamped parts produced in their manufacturing facility. LCS was eager to replace their current cleaning solvent, TCE, in order to help protect their workers’ health and reduce the impact to the environment. When Dave Blackstone, vapor degreaser…