MicroCare Asia Pte. Ltd., the industry's leading supplier of electronics cleaners, will use NEPCON Shanghai from 25-27 April as the platform in which to highlight three innovative new cleaning chemistries of the Tergo family: the Tergo Metal Cleaning Fluid, the Tergo Chlorine-Free Cleaning Fluid and the Tergo High-Performance Flux Remover.
For NEPCON, the most important of these is the Tergo High Performance Flux Remover because NEPCON is primarily an electronics assembly exposition. This fluid is a non-flammable, low-temperature cleaning fluid engineered for cleaning PCBs in vapor degreasers. This cleaner features a non-volatile additive specifically engineered to clean challenging solder pastes and flux residues, stubborn white residues and even water-soluble (OA) fluxes. This makes the Tergo High Performance Flux Remover a drop-in replacement for many older vapour degreasing chemistries that are being phased-out under environmental, health, safety or economic pressures. It also makes it an excellent replacement for electricity-hungry aqueous cleaning machines.
The new Tergo Metal Cleaning Fluid is a highly effective double-duty cleaner, easily degreasing metal parts and defluxing circuit boards. It is designed to replace hydrocarbon degreasers, plus nPB, TCE, PFCs and other old-style solvents. It is one of the strongest vapor degreasing fluids on the market (high Kb value) yet it is compatible with most materials of construction including metals, ceramics, most durable plastics and elastomers. This rugged formula can be used in the aerospace, automotive, medical, extraction and industrial sectors.
The Tergo Chlorine-free Cleaning Fluid (Tergo CFCFC) is a new type of precision cleaning fluid engineered for use in vapor degreasers. Operationally, the fluid is a nonflammable, highly aggressive cleaning liquid that operates in standard vapor degreasing hardware at traditional vapor degreasing temperatures. But chemically this is unlike any product on the market today. The result is a highly cost-effective, chlorine-free precision cleaner that removes a very broad range of soils with superior materials compatibility. The primary advantage of the Tergo CFCF is an unusually favorable environmental footprint. It is an excellent alternative for companies switching from hydrofluorocarbons (HCFCs), n-Propyl Bromide (nPB) and chlorinated solvents in mission-critical cleaning, drying or carrier fluid environments. This product is specified and used in almost every country and industry around the world.
The secret to all three of these new fluids is the non-flammable chemistry specifically engineered to enhance degreasing applications. This fluid also does not require chemical stabilizers or scavengers to prevent it from breaking down in the presence of water or white metals. The unique, patent-pending mix of chemistries enables simpler, faster, better and less expensive cleaning while meeting stringent environmental and worker safety regulations.
"Medical devices are manufactured in a controlled environment subject to stringent regulations and validation safeguards," noted Jay Tourigny, senior vice president for MicroCare. "The new Tergo fluids enable fast, thorough and consistent cleaning of intricate designs in that controlled environment without the bio burden problems and complexities associated with water cleaning. It's a win-win, for everybody."
Vapor degreasing is one of the most effective methods to clean medical devices because the actual process requires minimal space in a cleanroom, is simple, repeatable and easy to validiate. The Tergo fluids are compatible with existing vapor degreasing equipment and are a drop-in replacement for many older degreasing chemistries that are under environmental, health, safety or economic pressures. They are compliant with all the current and proposed environmental, health and safety regulations.
These products are available from MicroCare around the globe.
For more details, visit the MicroCare team at NEPCON Booth #1D23, or click through to electronics.microcare.com