IFP EUROPE

IFP EUROPE offers a very wide range of degreasing and cleaning machines with solvent or hybrid processes that meet the multiple needs of manufacturers.

IFP Europe's modified alcohol degreasing machines have been developed to meet all the needs of mechanical engineering companies. Starting with the HMA model, this machine, operating in modified alcohol or hydrocarbon, has become a standard among bar turners because they are machines capable of processing large quantities of oil and shavings, thanks to the treatment cycle entirely under vacuum. down to one millibar.

Modified alcohol and lye

IFP EUROPE also offers in its catalog a series of KP Hybrid machines, combining a detergent solution and modified alcohol. A concept that finds all its interest in the case of both organic and inorganic soiling. Precision engineering companies that machine metals such as brass and aluminum, often having difficulty removing white traces of dried soluble oil from their parts, should not remain insensitive to this type of cleaning technology. . Thus, by combining the solvent and the detergent, IFP Europe makes it possible to solve this problem and to obtain parts with "an incomparable brilliance", according to Christophe Iatropoulos, manager of C-Maj, the distributor of IFP machines in France, present at Cluses, in the Arve valley, in Haute-Savoie.

Disposal of polishing pastes

Another problem encountered in micromechanical companies, especially those working for the luxury sector: the elimination of polishing paste in a solvent medium. Because once removed from the surface of the parts in the working chamber of the machine, the polishing paste must be regularly removed in order to avoid clogging of the installation which ends up making it ineffective. This is why on its HD models, IFP has completely redesigned the layout of the solvent storage tanks as well as the design of the stills to make the machine easy to maintain by an operator. In addition, a new vacuum process has been developed on these machines, aiming to obtain, in a solvent medium, the same shine as that obtained today, only by washing machines . The DSVP (Dual Solvent Vacuum Process) developed in partnership between C-maj, IFP and partners specialized in chemistry, makes it possible " to match the results obtained in detergent mediums without using city water or demineralized water" , assures the manager of C-Maj.

Fluorinated solvents in a single-chamber machine

Well known in the aerospace industry as Caldene, Veltrel, Opteon or Novec, HFE and HFO fluorinated solvents can now be used in IFP machines, such as the KP.50/HFE. Single-chamber vacuum machines offering a set of cleaning modes available in the working chamber (static, rotating basket or with adjustable oscillations) and cleaning actions such as ultrasound, spraying or submerged jets. A great novelty for the use of these solvents, confined until now to use in open machines with high consumption.