Barbara and Edward Kanegsberg

Action or Force are essential for effective critical and precision parts cleaning. As we explained in a recent Clean Source, while spray cleaning can be effective, it is line-of-sight. Ultrasonic cleaning and cyclic cavitation (also referred to as vacuum cycle nucleation or cyclic nucleation) are omni-directional. While both involve “bubbles,” […]

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, the helpful people from Roto-Rooter visited the kitchen of the Cleaning Lady and the Rocket Scientist. They used aqueous spray cleaning to unclog our kitchen drains. Their actions were inspirational.  Spray cleaning is widely used in industrial, precision, and critical cleaning. Spray can be used […]

Cleaning is inherently disruptive. Time, Action, Chemistry, and Temperature (TACT) combine to form the disruption to achieve optimum product cleaning. It’s easy to get stuck on a single aspect of TACT, like the chemistry. The cleaning agent alone won’t get the job done. In this article, we focus on options […]

Throughout the United States, many manufacturers may need to change the cleaning agents and/or cleaning equipment used for critical product cleaning. One reason is that the allowable worker exposure to key chlorinated and brominated solvents may become far lower. The reduced levels will come not from OSHA but rather as […]

By Ed Kanegsberg, and Barbara Kanegsberg, BFK Solutions, with Dr. Darren Williams and Tanner Volek, SHSU Anyone who has mixed paint, made a cocktail, or baked cookies realizes that mixtures can have very different characteristics than any of their components. In critical and precision product cleaning, mixtures are powerful tools […]

We start with a shameless plug for the Product Quality Cleaning Workshop21 (PQCW21). The May workshop is virtual, convenient, cost-effective, and informative. PQCW21 provides the skills to become the expert that saves your company time, money and aggravation. PQCW21 gives you the weapons to defend critical cleaning process choices to […]