Parts Cleaning

Efficient treatment for wastewater compliance

The metal machining, fabrciation and finishing industries must meet EPA and local wastewater requirements for effluent. Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA has identified 65 pollutants and classes of pollutants as “toxic pollutants,” of which 126 specific substances have been designated “priority” toxic pollutants. Failing to meet these requirements can result in severe fines that quickly escalate.

An Ecoclean Update: the EcoCvelox

CTE Publisher Dennis Spaeth visits with John Filip, account manager, SBS Ecoclean Group, Southfield, Michigan, to learn more about the company's newest innovation in cleaning equipment, the EcoCvelox.

UPDATE (July 30, 2020): Ecoclean earned a gold award in the machines and engineering division of the German Design Council's "Excellence in Business to Business" competition for its EcoCvelox deburring, cleaning and drying machine. Learn more here.

parts2clean 2020: The international hub for component cleanliness

The transformational wave sweeping across numerous industrial sectors and markets is presenting companies with new and ever-shifting challenges, and this is also applies to industrial component and surface cleaning. This trend is fully reflected by parts2clean 2020, which takes place Oct. 27-29 in Stuttgart, Germany. For virtually every high-tech application in the fields of manufacturing and reprocessing, parts2clean is the information and procurement platform of choice for users of industrial cleaning technology.

Ultrasonic part cleaning demo

As a video supplement to the May 2013 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, Blue Wave Ultrasonics, Davenport, Iowa, filmed a demonstration of the ultrasonic cleaning process. CTE posted a slightly edited version of the video to its YouTube channel on April 16, 2013. 

The demonstration quickly became the most viewed video on CTE's YouTube channel. And it continues to draw viewers to this day. As of Dec. 4, 2019, the video has 376,971 views.