With health and safety, environmental impacts and general raw material costs being high on many company agendas, removing chemicals, dangerous processes or naked flames from the factory is usually a big incentive for investigating Plasma and Corona treatment which require no chemicals or REACH considerations and have well known safety implications that can easily be mitigated. Plasma and Corona are safe and environmentally friendly alternatives to a lot of older technologies.
Under modern legislation, a lot of old and often excellent manufacturing chemicals like toluene, trichloroethylene and others have to be tightly controlled and in some circumstances simply cannot be used how they were many years ago.
Replacing these materials with water based alternatives often leads to poor results, or at least isn’t a direct replacement.
It’s also worth considering the high and/or variable costs associated with carrying chemicals and the health and safety of having dangerous and highly flammable liquids on the factory floor.
Plasma and corona systems remove all of these costs, hazards and concerns.
Flame Treatment has been a strong and excellent treatment technique for many years, it treats large areas quickly, integrates on to robots well and works on a wide variety of parts and materials.
Modern Plasma and Corona systems often match or beat flame treatment performance, but the real reason to look at switching technologies is the cost of gas (and business insurance) needed to run flame, and the safety aspect of having a naked flame on the factory floor.
Plasma and Corona are significantly cheaper and safer to run and offer immediate start/ stop times in case of system emergency stops.
Plasma and corona system running costs range from around 400w to several kw for larger systems. This could be as little as 10p/hr to operate the system, with no additional costs and only a general machine operator required to run.
Payback for a lot of systems is often very quick when comparing to older technologies.
Read more about our running costs in our blog: How Much Do Plasma And Corona Treatment Systems Cost To Run?
Plasma and corona treatment systems may have some consumable parts requiring service once or twice a year, however, their day to day use is usually power only, with some systems needing compressed air.
There’s no need for abrasives or chemicals, and just as good, there is no need to dispose of any hazardous or bulky waste products.
Find out more about the different systems in our equipment pages.
