The Pai-Kor lines of products are designed with environmental safety in mind. The company’s fundamental focus is that products should be ecologically friendly, technologically feasible and financially reasonable. Beyond increased productivity and improved quality, minimizing environmental impact is the most important motivating force in the company's research and development work. Pai-Kor is dedicated to creating products and processes which do less damage to the environment, create fewer residuals and consume fewer raw materials and energy during their entire life-span. The company makes constant efforts to minimize water and air pollution, and similar care is taken to improve the working environment and enhance safety at work.		“… in the village where our business is located they do not currently have any sanitary sewer. So disposal of a cleaning material created a real problem for us. Using [Plaforization] has enabled us to eliminate all of the disposal headache and expense.”   Dale V. Midwestern Job Shop

Plaforization products put nothing into the water, nothing into landfill and virtually nothing into the air!

Plaforization products do not use water and are not rinsed, so there is no effluent, ever.

The Plaforization bath is never dumped, only topped off as it is used.
Process oils are not skimmed and disposed of, but rather are used to contribute flexibility to the topcoat. Plaforization chemicals are not heated, so you are not creating NOx or SOx by burning fuel.

The Plaforization process creates no sludge, so nothing is sent to landfill except the fines that come in on the parts.

Due to their extremely low vapor pressure, Plaforization products emit only very small amounts of VOCs.
The products contain no halogenated compounds, ozone-depleting compounds, carcinogens, mutagens, or hazardous air pollutants. For a typical installation treating 50,000 square feet of metal per year, VOC emissions are estimated to be:

Compare the environmental problems of the conventional processes:

Heated baths and rising natural gas costs

Multiple steps, including rinses, in the process

Water use and disposal headaches, including phosphates in the water stream

Sludge creation and disposal

Constant bath monitoring required by unstable bath chemistry

Environmental and permitting requirements

Emission of 10 to 20 times as much carbon dioxide from conventional burners as a comparable Plaforization system

With none of the conventional process problems, Plaforization is the smart approach to metal pretreatment. Plaforization products are your clear choice.