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The COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness of the potential for viral contamination around the workplace. Personal protection equipment (PPE) is starting to be used in new areas to avoid transmission next...

ITW Contamination Control – Electronics, the manufacturing facility for Chemtronics and Techspray products, is considered an essential critical business as classified by the Department of Homeland next...

Isopropyl alcohol (CAS #67-63-0), also referred to as IPA, isopropanol, and 2-propanol, may be in short supply for the coming weeks or months because of the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) pandemic. This next...

EMS and PCB repair facilities that work with static sensitive equipment are very familiar with ANSI/ESD-S20.20 and the challenge of maintaining compliance. You buy all the right benches, mats, straps, next...

Let’s say you are repairing a circuit board, and there’s a faulty component or solder joint somewhere, but you just can’t find it. What do you do? Freeze spray is an important tool for next...

Say you’re a contract manufacturer of printed circuit boards (PCBs), and your customer just made an engineering change that leaves several thru-hole vias open. If you run it through the wave as next...

What is a degreaser? A degreaser is a cleaner designed to remove grease, oils, cutting fluids, corrosion inhibitors, handling soils, finger prints, and other contamination common in assembly, stamping, next...

When you are removing tough soils like baked-on flux residues or heavy industrial greases, you can have the strongest solvent cleaner in the world (like those offered by Techspray), but you will still next...

With global warming in the news and greenhouse gases getting more regulatory attention, electronic and industrial manufacturers are on the look-out for ways to reduce carbon emissions. Techspray has been next...

By Barbara and Ed Kanegsberg, BFK Solutions LLC, guest contributors The manufacturer does vapor deposition. Coating was successful – except when it wasn’t. The manufacturer wanted consistently next...