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Industrial Degreasing and VOC-Exempt Solvent



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Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., a company that creates specialty chemicals from natural oils, offers Elevance Clean 1200, a degreasing and VOC-exempt solvent designed to outperform traditional and bio-based solvents for industrial degreasing applications targeted toward transportation maintenance and repair operations (MRO) and heavy manufacturing. "Elevance Clean 1200, now commercially available, is the latest addition to the growing portfolio of renewable, high-performance products from Elevance's novel technology and world-scale biorefinery," said a company spokesperson.

"We are committed to offering a suite of better-performing, more cost-effective cleaning solutions for the marketplace," said Andy Corr, Elevance Senior Vice President, Consumer and Industrial Ingredients. "Elevance Clean 1200 is fulfilling an unmet market need for a high-performing, environmentally friendly solvent with reliable supply and price stability."

Elevance Clean 1200 is produced from natural oils to create a solvent architecture. It is designed to achieve sustainability goals while improving cleaning performance in applications such as tough-to-remove soils common to the heavy manufacturing and transportation MRO sectors: industrial grade complex greases (e.g., lithium, molybdenum disulfide), paraffin waxes, automotive lubricants, metalworking fluids and corrosion-preventive oils.

Elevance Clean 1200 can be used as a pure solvent, blended with other solvents or emulsified with the addition of surfactants to provide semi-aqueous systems for a variety of industrial degreasing applications where an improved environmental profile is desired. In addition, Elevance Clean 1200 can be used in mechanical and touchless (immersion) cleaning applications.

This product offers the following features, according to the company:

  • Neutral pH (6-9), eliminating the need for highly caustic cleaning products, demanding personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements and the need to preserve sensitive metal substrates
  • Surpassing the solvency power of d-limonene, other terpenes and esters including soy methyl esters and dibasic esters, as measured on the Kauri-butanol (Kb) scale
  • Degreasing effectively and quickly in metal cleaning
  • Demonstrating good performance in non-mechanical immersion testing.

"Elevance Clean 1200 also meets restrictive environmental requirements, a key benefit as VOC requirements continue to become more stringent globally and a growing number of aromatic solvents appear on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)," said the spokesperson. Elevance Clean 1200 meets the following requirements:

  • VOC exempt (40 CFR 59.203 - standards for consumer products)
  • TSCA listed and REACh registered
  • California AQMD LVP-VOC
  • Readily biodegradable (by OECD method)
  • Nonflammable.

For more information contact:

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc.

2501 Davey Rd.

Woodridge, IL 60517

866-625-7103

info@elevance.com

www.elevance.com

www.renewicals.com

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