Developed in Europe, dry vapor or dry steam cleaning technology has been used extensively within European companies for over 20 years because of its effectiveness, intrinsic safety and ecological friendliness. It is now available in North America and is being increasingly adopted by many of North America’s largest manufacturing companies to help address many of the challenges facing industry. These include:

• Increased costs for pressure washing due to rapidly increasing costs for water and very high costs associated with treating and disposing of contaminated water.
• Increasing restrictions on the use of chemicals and solvents for employee safety and environmental protection reasons.
• Increasing cost and complexity with managing chemical inventories and complying with WHMIS and health and safety legislation.
• Increasing liability associated with environmental issues resulting from solvents and other chemicals.
• Pressures to extend production schedules reduce scheduled downtime available for cleaning equipment which can contribute to higher unscheduled downtime due to reliability issues.
• Labor intensity for cleaning water sensitive robotic and computer controlled equipment.

Rea UltraVapor equipment and systems are used for cleaning of production equipment, general facilities cleaning and for in-line cleaning of small parts, tubes, extrusions etc.