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Plaforization Products are Environmentally Friendly

Due to their extremely low vapor pressure, Plaforization products emit only very small amounts of VOCs. For example, a properly-designed installation treating 50,000 square feet of metal/year would emit between 160 lb. and 1,200 lb./year, depending on the product used. The products contain no halogenated compounds, ozone-depleting compounds, carcinogens, mutagens, or hazardous air pollutants, and they biodegrade to CO2 and water only.

The Plaforization process uses no water and is not rinsed, so nothing goes into the water stream.

The Plaforization process creates no sludge, so it creates nothing for landfill. The only thing you throw out is the filtered fines that came in on the parts.

Oil is not skimmed or dumped, but is used in the process.

The Plaforization Process is Easy to Use

Treatment time is one minute in a single tank, with no rinse, followed by a 3-minute drip-off, blow-off, and drying, and then the part is ready to paint.

The bath is extremely stable, which means you get consistently excellent finished parts. Also, there are no daily bath checks to conduct. Bath analyses are performed for you every other month.

Multi-metals can be treated, even simultaneously.

The bath is unheated, so there is no waiting for bath warm-up before starting operations.

Capital and Operating Costs are Lower

Since Plaforization installations are single-stage with no rinse, they have a smaller footprint and are less expensive.

There are fewer and smaller fans and pumps.

You spend nothing on natural gas to heat tanks because it is a room-temperature process.

Bath checks need to be conducted only every other month.

For plastics, the Ecopur technology was developed to provide the same efficient and safe method to prepare rigid polyurethane surfaces for finishing operations as the Ecophor line provides for metals. The process works at room temperature and takes place in a single stage, with no rinse and no effluent.

Ecopur formulations not only remove demolding agents but also react with the plastic surface, depositing a very thin polymeric sealant which improves adhesion of topcoats.

Like Ecophor for metals, Ecopur for plastics operates by either dip or flowcoating. Before pretreating with Ecopur, a compressed air blow-down is recommended to remove fine polyurethane dust. The normal processing cycle includes the treatment phase (2-3 minutes), a draining station and a final drying phase. Depending on the particular product used, dry-off may be forced air (warm or cold) or an oven dry-off.

 
 

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