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New Products:
Dry Ice Pressure Cleaners MKII:

Dry ice cleaning to help reduce industry water use

• Removes stubborn contaminants effortlessly e.g. pitch, blackjack, carbon
• Non-abrasive and gentle on gauges and printed circuit boards, air hoses and electrical wiring
• Cleans inaccessible areas? Onsite cleaning in-situ
• No expensive transportation costs
• Eliminates the removal of contaminated cleaning material
• Increases productivity with more operational uptime
• Electrical equipment can be energised immediately
• Easy-to-use technology
• Relative low pressure (under 100PSI)

Media Release
4 October 2007

Dry ice cleaning to help reduce industry water use

IIndustries that use water-intensive, wet cleaning processes can reduce water consumption by up to five million litres a year by adopting dry, safer methods, says an expert with a national industrial cleaning company.

Cyberclean’s industrial expert engineer Dirk Arnold explains large manufacturers, factories and the mining sector can consume between 5500 and 7000 litres of water an hour to clean equipment and machinery using high-pressured water methods.

“A large cost for industry is maintaining equipment and machinery to meet strict risk management guidelines or protocols, such as safety, environmental and hygiene” hygiene, environmental and safety risk standards,” Mr Arnold said.

“Companies such as food processing plants may be required to ensure cleanliness standards are met after every use; and many large scale manufacturers operate daily or weekly maintenance programs to ensure optimum productivity and employee safety.

“Current best practice water-based methods use more than five times the water per hour than that of a domestic household tap (if allowed to flow for an entire hour).

“Alarmingly, these methods also produce similar quantities in wastewater that, which then require additional issues to be dealt with, such as containment plus costly processing and treatment before environmentally approved disposal”

In some food related industries there is also the risk factor with any residual water resulting from cleaning, which can breed or promote growth of bacteria or fungus.

Mr Arnold said dry ice cleaning is emerging as an environmentally friendlier and much safer option.

“Apart from eliminating water use completely, dry ice cleaning uses 30 to 360 times less pressure than high-pressured water blasting. Along with this, dry ice cleaning is also non-abrasive, non-flammable and non-conductive.

“Dry ice can easily remove the accumulation of garbage, food waste, dirt, grease, tar and other visible matter without chemical or moisture residue and or surface abrasion”. This technology can be utilised on anything between a delicate printed circuit board to the tar and bitumen on the local council road repair equipment”

"If all industries adopted dry ice cleaning technology then this would go a long way towards helping SEQ to achieve its goal of saving 12ML per day by April 2008 (Water Amendment Regulation (No.6) 2006).

The dry ice cleaning process works by using the kinetic energy of dry ice pellets. The pellets are propelled from a fully mobile pneumatic dry ice machine and upon application change from a solid to a gas.  In essence the heat transfer of the process melts contaminates away from the surface.
   
Mr Arnold said dry ice, compressed carbon dioxide, has a zero carbon balance.

“Dry ice is made by capturing existing industry emissions, therefore, there is no additional CO2 output produced in the process,” he said.

Dry ice cleaning is suitable for general manufacturing, food, mining and construction, aviation, power and electrical, printing and disaster recovery industries.

Five steps to successfully Spring-clean your office equipment

Did you know that your office is a vulnerable environment for the transfer of infectious germs?  Did you also know that computers and other regularly touched office equipment can harbour more germs than a toilet seat? 

Well, they can.  And worst of all, your office equipment is almost never cleaned.

Spring is a great time to give the old office a clean out and get rid of germs that may be lurking around after winter and making you and your staff sick.

Here are five steps to Spring-clean your office equipment and give germs and grime the boot:Encourage staff to regularly tidy their personal and professional belongs on and around their workstations.

1. Engage a specialist cleaning company to undertake a thorough clean, both inside and out of your workstations, telephones, fax machines, photocopiers and other office equipment. 
2. Cyberclean uses technical cleaning methods specially designed for electronic equipment and applies an anti-static treatment to all surfaces. This creates a thin protective layer that is non-toxic and environmentally friendly. This film prevents dust and grime from attaching to surfaces, preventing further contamination for several weeks.
3. Plan a regular cleaning regime for every three months, increasing treatment to once a month during the summer and winter months when germs are thriving.
4. Encourage staff to eat their lunch or snacks away from their desks.  Nutrient-rich particles trapped within and on equipment surfaces can provide the perfect food source for prolific germs.
5. Purchase specially designed, anti-static computer keyboard cleaners and alcohol-based swipes that effectively remove food and skin particles from equipment and encourage staff to wipe equipment down regularly.  This cleaning will only remove easy to remove surface contaminates.  Professional cleaning is required regularly to ensure a complete hygienic clean for a happy work environment.

For more information on when and how to clean your office equipment, and for an obligation free quote, please call Cyberclean on 1300 55 81 83.