Guide To Vapor Degreasing For Commercial Facilities

If you are the owner or manager of a commercial facility that has involvement in parts cleaning or manufacturing, then you no doubt are aware of vapor degreasing. If not, you should familiarize yourself with this process and learn how it might enhance your parts cleaning operations. Vapor degreasing is a popular process that cleans many different kinds of parts and is useful in a variety of situations, some of which might apply to your facility’s needs and might greatly enhance your business processes.

What is Vapor Degreasing?

At its core, vapor degreasing is a cleaning process that utilizes solvents to carefully clean small plastic, glass, metal, or ceramic parts. Unlike other kinds of cleaning processes, however, the solvents used are boiled into a vapor form, which coats and cleanses the material without the need for physical abrasion or scrubbing. In most vapor degreasing machines, the materials are placed in a basket that lowers the materials into the vapor chamber. The dirt falls off the materials into a waste bucket below and the materials are lifted back out when they are fully cleaned. Different kinds of machines operate slightly differently, but all are efficient in this innovative process.

Applications and Benefits of Vapor Degreasing

Vapor degreasing is a versatile and popular cleaning process and therefore has found applications in almost all manufacturing industries, though more commonly in the automotive, aviation, medical, electronic, and jewelry fields. This process can be used in so many fields because the solvents that comprise the vapor come in many different kinds. Some kinds of solvents are better suited to some kinds of materials over others, which makes the process fairly universal. One of the biggest benefits of vapor degreasing is that it avoids any potential damage from physical abrasion and liquid cleaning. Scrubbing can damage sensitive materials and liquids can damage electronic and electrical parts, both of which are unaffected by vapor. Vapor degreasing is also a highly efficient process, as the cleaning itself is done quickly and the nature of the process allows for drying steps to be removed completely.

Overall, vapor degreasing is useful across the board and therefore likely will find a place in your commercial facility. At Mikro Industrial Finishing, we not only sell top of the line vapor degreasing machines, we also offer vapor degreasing services if your commercial facility doesn’t wish to invest in equipment for small jobs. To learn more about our cleaning equipment and about the Mikro Job Shop, please call us any time at (860) 875-6357.