Chemical resistance to Ecolab cleaners
Ahren Xia | December 1, 2020
The safety of food and drink is crucial to the well-being and health of people around the world. The cleaning and disinfection of food and beverage machines is therefore extremely important.
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We have therefore tested our usual materials used in the food, beverage and packaging industry for resistance to various Ecolab cleaners:
- Topactive 200 (2-5%),
- Topactive 500 (2-5%)
- P3-topax 66 (2-5%),
- P3-topax 990 (1-3%),
- P3-topactive Okto (0.5-1%).
Test specimens were completely immersed in the respective cleaner for a period of 28 days (equivalent to 672 hours). There was a constant room temperature. The test evaluation was then carried out under various aspects:
- Visual assessment: swelling, cracks, colour changes, surfaces, outer diameter and wall thickness.
- Comparison with the zero value (starting material and demineralised water).
- Photo documentation.
The following materials proved to be resistant to the Ecolab cleaning agents used in the test:
- iglidur A160, A180, A181, A350 and A500;
- iglidur C500;
- iglidur H, H1 and H370;
- iglidur J, J3, J200 and J350;
- iglidur P210;
- iglidur X and X6;
- iglidur Z;
- igumid TH-NB.