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Article: Parts cleaning: it takes more than a tubmaker.
- Article from:
- Tooling & Production
- Article date:
- August 1, 1995
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There may be some disappointed consultants out there who had great expectations about the amount of money that companies would be willing to pay for their "expert" opinion on how to handle their parts cleaning replacement for ozone-depleting solvents (ODS).
Equally disappointed must be the number of sheet metal tubmakers who thought that parts cleaning was simply the matter of providing another tub, a heated sump, and some parts handling capability.
Requirements for parts cleaning today is, however, a more complicated affair. The challenge to metalworking manufacturer end users and equipment and chemistry suppliers has been providing cost effective ways to ...