Modern Industrial Cleaning With Health, Safety and the Environment in Mind

There is an abundance of information available on the internet regarding industrial cleaning. The difficulty lies in sorting out fact from fiction and weeding out significant information pertaining to modern industrial cleaning applications, not household issues.

The marketing of "green" or "eco-friendly" products often uses scare tactics in promoting a specific chemistry at the expense of more effective options. This book is based on more than thirty years of experience formulating industrial cleaning products available commercially to markets ranging from aerospace, automotive manufacturing and remanufacturing, metal finishing, optics and electronics. References are taken from recognized experts in the field.

As environmental issues come to the forefront and the economic downturn of the first decade of the Twenty-First Century cause us to optimize our production processes, a new look at modern industrial cleaning is warranted.

JoAnn Quitmeyer retired as Director of Research and Development at Kyzen® Corporation, a major chemical supplier of cleaning chemistries used in electronics, semi-conductor, metal finishing and optics markets, located in Nashville, TN. She spent over thirty years formulating cleaners and lubricants for industrial applications including ten years at Kyzen Corporation, fifteen years as a Senior Research Associate at W.R.Grace® in Lexington, MA where she developed the Daraclean®and Daracool® product lines and thirteen years as a Senior Chemist with the Magnus Division of Economics Laboratory (EcoLab) in St. Paul, MN. She was educated at the University of Minnesota.

Over the past thirty years JoAnn has had dozens of articles published in professional magazines such as Clean Tech Magazine, Pollution Engineering and Product Finishing Magazine. She also has had chapters published in various books, most recently in Second Edition Handbook for Critical Cleaning, Cleaning Agents and Systems, Edited by Barbara and Edward Kanegsberg.

She has lectured at numerous Universities and conferences on cleaning and lubrication and was invited to address the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on the feasibility of alternative cleaning options to replaced banned CFC's.

More than 150 commercially successful products have been formulated by JoAnn during her years as a formulator.