Industrial Manufacturing Gets Cleaner and Greener After Millikin University Hosts Collaborative Chemistry Research Experiment Between 300 Below and Harcros Chemicals
Decatur, IL (PRWEB) August 04, 2014 -- Stronger industrial cleaning requirements have often meant toxic waste footprints with costly health and safety precautions, but academia and industry leaders converged in mid-July to eliminate these environmental challenges while improving the efficacy of Pristine, a versatile non-toxic cleaning solution. Used by manufacturers, service providers, and firearms enthusiasts, Pristine is safe for use in the home around pets and children while being strong enough to remove the toughest carbon-based deposits from any metal surface without etching or veiling.
Millikin University hosted leaders and chemists from 300 Below, Inc. and its supplier, Harcros Chemicals, through their collaboration with Millikin's Science and Entrepreneurship Program. Chemists Dave Perring (300 Below) and Scott Walters (Harcros) worked side-by-side in a Millikin laboratory to test new variations of Pristine's non-toxic water-based formulation for carbon removal.
As part of ongoing experimentation, new surfactants were evaluated against current measures to test foaming, cleaning power, and storage capabilities required for extended shelf life while engendering maximum efficiency to clean aggressively without unintended side effects. Maintaining a neutral pH was another priority in order to facilitate non-etching properties. The improvements continue to maintain compliance with stringent California Regulations, yielding a technically superior non-toxic cleaning solution with no VOCs.
"Working with Chris Akers and Scott Walters at Harcros continues to be one of our favorite business development activities. There is so much knowledge shared when we get together to collaborate on business strategy and technical improvements to our product lines. Plus, when you get Millikin's Dr. David Horn involved, it takes a typical work week experience to new heights. Working with this A-team morphs challenging chemistry into a learning experience that is truly fun for all of us," recalls Prescott Paulin, International Research Consultant for 300 Below.
Pristine Cleaning Solution eliminates oil, grease, carbon-based deposits, polishing compounds, rouges, rosin core flux lines, and other manufacturing particulate from metal surfaces, plastics and composites. Pristine rinses completely free, leaving no residue, no etching and no worries behind. Pristine is a non-toxic cleaning solution that is also non-caustic and non-flammable compared to other offerings in the market. When Pristine Cleaning Solution launched on Amazon as part of 300 Below's Tactical Triad gun cleaning kit, the gun cleaning kit ranked among the Top 5 gun cleaning kits sold on Amazon with Pristine as the driving force behind numerous positive four and five star user reviews.
300 Below, Inc. provides metallurgical engineering services as the world's largest and oldest commercial cryogenic processing company, in business since 1966. Through its liquid nitrogen based services, molecular structures of steel components are rearranged to last 200-300% longer for around 20% cost of the component. For 2014, 300 Below has introduced a new line of non-toxic cleaning and lubrication technologies as well as a patented scrub pad. 300 Below's cryogenic tempering process acts an extension of the heat treatment process used in manufacturing defense and aerospace components, high-performance motorsports applications, 262,000+ gun barrels, sporting goods, and musical instruments. 300 Below has started 156 operations in 36 countries around the world with its technology. Customers include NASA, as well as all branches of the U.S. Military and their contractors.
Harcros Chemicals has been delivering quality products from hundreds of manufacturers to thousands of customers for nearly a century. Independently owned by its 520+ employees, Harcros is a U.S.-based company representing many of the top producers in the chemical industry, and also has its own manufacturing facility in Kansas City along with 28 distribution centers and 200+ delivery vehicles throughout the United States. Harcros facilities have collectively over one million square feet of warehouse space, and over three million gallons of bulk storage capacity.
Millikin University is a private, comprehensive university with a diverse student population of approximately 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students. A Millikin education features "Performance Learning," a unique learning approach offering students the chance to build the confidence to succeed before and after graduation. Millikin offers more than 50 majors in the College of Fine Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Professional Studies and Tabor School of Business, and is located on a 75-acre residential campus in Decatur, Ill. Last year, 99 percent of Millikin graduates gained employment or admission into professional/graduate school within six months of graduation.
Prescott Paulin, 300 Below, Inc., http://guns.300below.com/, +1 415-952-9974, [email protected]
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