| In this new age time some companies are replacing | | | | new safer technology that not only was cleaner and |
| their archaic industrial solvents with more eco-friendly | | | | more efficient; it also created usable bi-products |
| ones. The solvents used in industrial cleaners are | | | | which can be used in commercial sanitation products. |
| becoming more effective while also doing more for | | | | There are, however, companies in the industrial |
| the planet. One of the leaders in the green industrial | | | | cleaners and solvents world who still clean to the "old |
| cleaners market, Elgene Chemical, has a huge variety | | | | school" way of doing things. Applied Hydro |
| of 'safe' solvents. Their top-selling product, Fabulene, | | | | Technologies does not market any of their chemicals |
| is water based biodegradable degreaser which has | | | | as environmentally friendly. With everything from |
| the added effect of rust and corrosion inhibition. | | | | highly acidic aluminum solvents to drain cleaning active |
| T2 Laboratories is another example of a producer of | | | | bacterium, this company gets thumbs down on the |
| environmentally friendly solvents that are used in | | | | green clean. |
| industrial cleaners. They produce a turpentine-based | | | | The Pizzo Limited Industrial Chemical Corporation is |
| solvent which is a main part of the pine tree. They | | | | another example of a stubborn company. The |
| also make a paraffin remover for oil and gas wells | | | | majority of their cleaners rely on the solvent ether, |
| which cleans twice as effectively as the existing | | | | which is hazardous to both the workers and the |
| products while keeping workers out of harm's way. | | | | environment. They also market cleaners with a base |
| Fine Organic Chemicals LTD is a South African based | | | | of butyl acetate and glycerin both of which are very |
| company with a veritable bevy of environmentally | | | | unsafe. |
| safe products. They produce everything from | | | | With today's increasing demand to be more |
| bagged concretes, to degreasers, to floor and apron | | | | environmentally friendly, the smart money says to |
| cleaners. This goes to show that the green clean | | | | get behind the company that is already doing just |
| movement is on a global scale and it's time for you | | | | that. Why wait around for a company that may or |
| to get involved. | | | | may not change its ways when you've already got |
| Even companies such as the Bayer Corporation are | | | | one that is waiting in the wings. The future of |
| getting in on the enviro-clean action. They created a | | | | industrial solvents is a green one so why not start |
| biodegradable chelating agent. Chelating is the binding | | | | pushing that way now? Not only is it a smart move |
| of molecules, usually organic in nature. They realized | | | | from a sales standpoint, many of these new 'green |
| that their old method of chelating was very | | | | chemicals' are much safer for the workers to handle, |
| inefficient and created a lot of undesirable, unusable | | | | reducing employer and franchiser liability. |
| bi-products. They had their scientists come up with a | | | | |