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September 2026

The Quest for New Cleaning Equipment Part 6: Get Out There – Find a Supplier/Partner

Observe, evaluate! Look at the cleaning machine; look at the company trying to sell you that cleaning machine. It is difficult to grasp how the cleaning equipment will fit into the manufacturing space and the process requirements based on brochures, video clips, web sites, and drawings alone. Once the Cleaning […]
January 2020

Two Terrifying Cleaning Questions

(This article originally appeared in the January 2020 issue of Clean Source Newsletter) We were helping a client set up cleaning evaluations at a provider of cleaning equipment; and the client received a questionnaire asking for details. The first question: what manufacturing steps occur before the cleaning process to be […]
September 2019

Soprano or Bass—What Ultrasonic Frequency to Use? Part 2: Being TACTful

As a professional in product cleaning, you probably have encountered the acronym TACT. The letters represent four key facets for effective cleaning, Temperature, Action, Chemistry, and Time. Action is the facet usually associated with ultrasonics. In Part 1, we focused on cleaning action and the relationship to frequency. However, ultrasonic […]