Increasingly strict environmental regulations and restrictions on solvent use have challenged heating elements producers to find safer alternatives for cleaning coils for heating elements. Traditional chlorinated solvents are no longer a viable option, and mineral oils used during coil winding presented additional cleaning challenges.

Oakley Industrial Machinery addresses this by using a water-soluble, biodegradable lubricant composed primarily of soap with a small proportion of vegetable oils. Our coil cleaning system employs hot water and soap in modified conventional dishwashers to effectively remove the minimal lubricant applied during spiraling – typically just a 5% lubricant and 95% water solution.