Asaclean U Grade was tested on a 500 ton Van Dorn Injection molding machine to clean glass filled Nylon (black to red to yellow) in a hot runner mold. The customer was leaving the g/f Nylon in the manifold when shutting down the tool. This caused the tips in the hot runner mold to break [...]

A company called in for help with cleaning their extruders. They were using the next resin and/or PP to purge, yet machine output was still decreasing (due to contamination not being cleaned out) and thereby causing them to pull the screw. This is an all-day process for them, creating considerable cost in downtime and loss [...]

Recently I was contacted by a large tier1 automotive supplier.  They were having major color streaking issues on a valve gated hot runner Mercedes Lift gate tool. The interior panel was molded from talc-filled PP at 450°F in a 2,200 ton Toshiba injection machine.  They had exhausted all options and decided to sample Asaclean UP [...]

I was contacted by a wire coating manufacturer located in New York. They were losing approximately $25,000 dollars per hour while there machine was down. Total down time would be around 5 hours. Total sales dollars lost: $125,000.00. Their down time would consist of: 1. Purging extruder. 2. Pulling the screw out of the extruder. [...]

An extrusion blow molding company in Mexico has been using virgin resin to purge their Schütz accumulator heads during color changes for many years.  They manufacture all types of polyethylene buckets, bottles, containers and drums.   A few months ago a team of process engineers and managers from this plant reached out to us to begin [...]

I have a customer, an automotive molder in Michigan, who I have been working with to reduce machine downtime and scrap.  They perform their polypropylene color changes with Asaclean UP Grade, including purging their hot runners (purging through the mold).  In most cases, I’m told, after 3-4 shots the manifolds are clean! Recently they  introduced [...]

Are you tired of wasting hours (and money) to have your highly-skilled employees pull screws? Do you have injection molding machines or extruders sitting idle while workers franticly try to “put out fires”? Today’s competitive plastics processing market demands faster deliveries on while maintaining stricter product QC. Controlling machine downtime is imperative in order to [...]

“Low-Hanging  Fruit”.  We have all heard this expression. Are you looking for a quick return on one of your investments?  How does an immediate return on your investment sound, all while prolonging the life of your equipment?   Using Asaclean purge material is one of the most effective ways to get immediate savings. A large injection [...]

Under the guidance of Professor Milan Maric, Keith Oxby, a student at the Department of Chemical Engineering at McGill University, tested ASACLEAN E Grade and U Grade to clean a conical twin-screw extruder that operates in a co-rotating fashion. Test Steps: Keith found both E Grade and U Grade of ASACLEAN Purging Compound were equally [...]