Impregnated Wipes from Accepta

Impregnated Wipes - Accepta's extensive range of impregnated wipes includes their excellent solvent based wipes, suitable for multiple applications involved with the manufacture or use of oils, grease, resins, adhesives, elastomers, mastics, plastics and paints etc.

Impregnated wipes whatever your work within industry, there is a constant need to clean equipment, components and personnel. Accepta's innovative solution to this problem, their solvent impregnated wipes are not only convenient and easy to use, providing exactly the right quantity of solvent in each wipe, they also offer excellent economy. Accepta's solvent based products have been well received by industry in general and have proved particularly suitable for critical application and have already been approved by the UK's aerospace and defence industries. Accepta's wipes also take account of three important regulatory issues, ozone depletion, Health & Safety and volatile organic chemical (VOC) emissions.

Advanced Cleaning Technology

Ozone Depletion

The depletion of the ozone layer has been reliably associated, at least in part, with the catalytic breakdown of ozone by some chlorinated and chloro-fluorinated hydrocarbons accumulating in the upper atmosphere in the presence of incoming radiant energy.

Whilst the main culprits appear to be those highly volatile and mobile "CFCs" employed as aerosol propellants and refrigerants, the generally heavier and less mobile species employed as cleaning and degreasing agents have also been implicated.

The Montreal Protocol (1987) was signed by around 40 countries and sought to limit the use of ozone depleting compounds by 50% before 1999. The EEC Directive (1989 and subsequent amendments) seeks to act even more quickly and has targeted the cessation of production of ozone depleting species by the mid 1990s.

Health & Safety

The control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH) regulations require the user of hazardous substances to review and document procedures involving such materials and to adopt less hazardous materials and/or processes where possible, such that the hazard is diminished.

Certainly it is implicit in the act that the operator of a process may not replace it directly with an alternative process wherein the overall hazard (comprising both material and method) is increased. The manner in which two totally unrelated hazards, i.e. fire hazard versus chronic dermal irritance, are to be compared is not evident since no absolute index of severity exists and legal precedent is far from clear.

It is, however, self evident that the obligations enshrined in COSHH regulations must be carefully weighed in any scheme devised to supplant the use of ozone depleting cleaning processes.

Volatile Organic Chemical (VOC) Emissions

The volatile organic chemical emissions regulations form part of the Environmental Protection Act (1991). The regulations place limits upon the tonnage of solvent vapours exhausted into the atmosphere from industrial premises engaged in nominated processes - including solvent degreasing and cleaning. The numerical limits are time-related and include, additionally, those VOC's arising from all nominated processes. So the combined emissions from degreasing, cleaning and painting operations will be considered as a single entity.

A solvent-based paint must ultimately dry and therefore contribute a fixed finite emission. The emission of VOC from cleaning and degreasing processes in unit time can, in contrast, be managed by the careful selection of the degreasing solvent in order to minimise its volatility and hence its loss at atmosphere.

Typical Wipe Applications

If you are involved with the manufacture or use of oils, grease, resins, adhesives, elastomers, mastics, plastics and paints etc. you will require a cleaning product that takes into account those important regulatory issues and also removes soils effectively, economically and easily.

Own Label Services

Accepta’s own/white label services offer you the opportunity of having our high quality, manufactured products branded as your own. All Accepta products can be re-branded with your company name, logo, contact details, and more included on each consignment and, if required delivered direct to a site of your choice with your own delivery paperwork. If you would like to learn more about our specialist own/white label services please call us on +44 (0) 161 877 2334 or e-mail info@accepta.com.

Additional Information & Technical Support

For further information, technical support and advice please call Accepta on +44 (0) 161 877 2334 or e-mail info@accepta.com. For additional products, specifications, product data and MSDS's please review our products pages.