Forward toward
circularity.

Industrial cleaning is integral to every metalworking process, from automotive to machinery manufacture. While it is essential, it is also highly problematic. We know it can be challenging to separate certain coolant components from the wash bath, while meeting targets, reducing costs and minimise your environmental impact. Castrol Techniclean XBC re-imagines the process by recycling the cleaner.

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METALWORKING REIMAGINED: RECYCLING THE CLEANER

Industrial cleaning is intrinsic to metalworking processes, yet leads to high levels of cleaning waste and excessive water consumption. Techniclean helps reduce both.

Every metalworking process requires an industrial cleaning phase after machining. Yet coolants inevitable pass into cleaning fluids, reducing bath life and leading to waste. Techniclean solves this problem through its ability to be recycled back into metalworking systems without compromising machining quality. Industrial cleaning is integral to every metalworking process, from automotive to aerospace manufacture. Yet while it is intrinsic, it is also highly problematic.

You are under constant pressure to reduce costs and minimize your environmental impact; two business objectives that are hard to reconcile with the expense and wastage generated by most industrial cleaners.

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Less water. Less waste. More productivity.

Castrol Techniclean XBC is a new high-performance cleaning fluid offer that increases productivity in precision metalworking process chains, while simultaneously reducing water consumption and waste generation.

Suitable for use with a wide range of modern spray, intensive flood-wash and high-pressure equipment, Techniclean XBC solves this problem through ready compatibility with Castrol Alusol XBB and Hysol XBB cutting fluids.

Rather than being disposed to waste at the end of its useful cleaning life, Techniclean XBC Cleaner can simply be recycled into the XBB cutting fluid system with no loss of performance.

Water consumption is reduced accordingly, as are used-fluid disposal costs, which means Techniclean XBC helps contribute to the notion of a ‘circular economy’ where waste and pollution are ‘designed out’ to reduce negative environmental impacts.

This new high performance product family enables metal processing companies to increase productivity with a simultaneous reduction of up to 60% of waste disposal costs, low water consumption and an improvement of the work environment overall

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HOW IT WORKS

Castrol Techniclean XBC is different. It does not only provide outstanding demulsifying performance for easy separation of foreign oil to ensure a long service life of the bath but instead of being disposed of at the end of its cleaning lifespan, the used cleaning fluid can be recycled in the coolant system without performance losses. In this way both water consumption and disposal fees for used cleaning fluids can be reduced or even eliminated altogether.

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In laboratory tests performed at Castrol as well as in customer case studies, it was possible to demonstrate a low foaming behaviour over a wide range of temperatures along with suitability for low temperature and cold applications in modern spray, high pressure and intensive flood washing systems, which can help companies save energy costs.

In addition, Techniclean XBC is formulated without boron and formaldehyde-splitting biocides.

Techniclean XBC was not only developed in view of the technical requirements for modern process cleaners but also with an eye on the recycling economy: it has a long lifetime and can be recycled. As a result, fewer raw materials are consumed and less waste is generated. It potentially also saves heating energy, which helps companies to optimise their profile in terms of their overall carbon footprint.

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