Chemical Solutions for
Machining & Metal Working Facilities
Metal Preparation | Cleaners & Degreasers | Defoamers | Heating and Cooling System Water Treatment | and more
In Your Industry, Safety is Everything
The chemistry required for metalworking and machining walks a fine line. It needs to be as effective as possible, but it—and its application—needs to be safe for everyone involved. That’s true whether its hot tank chemicals for paint, rust, oil, and carbon removal, or the water treatment chemicals that ensure product quality during production.
You Need a Partner You Can Trust
Your success hinges on a chemical partner with industry-leading expertise
For chemicals to truly enable your business, you need more than just the right solutions. You need support in application maintenance that prioritizes performance and safety in equal measure. With your concerns in mind, our trained technicians can deliver effective and safer application methods.
Solutions
Cleaning & Degreasing
Metal Preparation
Guardian Chemicals offers a complete acid cleaning and descaling program for typhoon washers, hot tanks, parts cleaners and specialty parts washers. We support our effective solutions with superior service by providing recharges, neutralization, regular testing and optimization to help you at every stage in the process. We also help arrange for disposal by qualified and trained technicians for your complete peace of mind.
Degassing & Scavengers
When it comes to degassing and scavenging, you want solutions you can trust. Our highly concentrated scavenger products are designed to selectively scavenge H2S fast, effectively, and irreversibly. It converts poisonous and foul-smelling H2S gas to a liquid product. Many of our scavenger products can also effectively reduce mercaptans by over 90%.
Defoamers
Foam is a byproduct of many processes. Our foam control solutions include typhoon washer products with ultra-low foaming agents, designed for soft metals, without sacrificing performance.
Water Treatment
The first step in preparing metal for coating is often steam cleaning. To ensure the continued performance of your steam cleaning equipment, you need water treatment chemistry created to keep your equipment at peak efficiency today, and for years to come.
Sanitizing & Disinfecting
Protect the health of everyone in and around your buildings from the visible and invisible bacteria, fungi, and other contaminants that can linger for days in the right environment. Guardian’s wide variety of solutions include several registered with Health Canada. All our hard surface cleaners, sanitizers, and disinfectant chemicals are made to ensure the cleanliness of contaminated surfaces.
We Take Your Work Seriously
We make it our priority to understand your facility, your concerns, and your objectives. Because what works for someone else might not work for you.
Delivering industry-leading chemical solutions is a joint effort between our innovative lab researchers, and the service team that ensures you have what you need, when you need it. And above all, we don’t disappear once a solution is delivered. Whether it’s the cleaners and degreasers to service your equipment, the metal prep solutions that prepare parts of going back in the field, or the water treatment chemicals that keep your facilities heated, we are always on call to ensure the comfort and safety of everyone.
Related: metal preparation chemistry, industrial degreasers and the SafeGuard AL aluminum cleaning case study.
We don’t believe in ‘deliver-and-done’. True benefits revolve around the consistency of program execution, which is why we’re there when you need us both for regular servicing and emergency support for life.
Our experts know your industry and will seek to understand the unique challenges of your business. Let’s talk.
Your systems and processes are interconnected. We’ll arrange a site visit to understand the bigger picture.
Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Solutions for Machining and Metal Working
Cleaners and degreasers for parts and equipment, metal preparation chemistry for surfaces going to coating or assembly, defoamers for coolant and wash systems, water treatment for any heating and cooling plant, and sanitation chemistry. Coolant management is where most shops have the biggest recoverable cost.
Usually bacterial growth in a sump that is too warm, too dilute, or holding tramp oil. Tramp oil blankets the surface and creates the low-oxygen conditions anaerobic bacteria need, which produces the Monday morning smell. Skimming tramp oil and controlling concentration usually does more than adding biocide.
Fix the cause rather than mask it. Remove tramp oil, correct concentration, clean the sump properly during a changeout rather than just topping up, and check the water you are mixing with. A sump recharged with the same biofilm still in it goes off again quickly.
Soft water, over-concentration, high-pressure delivery and carried-over cleaning chemistry all promote foam. Foam reduces cooling and lubrication at the tool and interferes with wash coverage. A low-dose defoamer matched to the system handles it, but it is worth checking concentration and water quality first.
Cleaning to remove oil, coolant residue and fines, then a surface treatment appropriate to the substrate and the finish. Most coating adhesion failures in a machine shop trace to residual coolant or cutting oil that survived a cleaning stage running below temperature or concentration.
Hard water ties up active ingredients in many cleaners, so the bath needs more product to reach the same performance and leaves mineral spotting on parts after rinse. We often know the water quality for a region already, so the fix is normally a formulation choice rather than a water treatment project.
It needs monitoring at minimum. Wash baths drift in concentration, temperature and soil loading, and they get judged by how the parts look rather than by titration. Titrating on a schedule is the single change that most improves consistency in a wash line.
Worker exposure, ventilation, skin contact from parts handling, and compatibility with the metals and elastomers in your machines. A cleaner that works quickly but requires respiratory protection in a shop with no ventilation is the wrong product regardless of how well it cleans.
Usually yes. Shops accumulate products one problem at a time and end up with several that do similar jobs. Consolidating reduces inventory, simplifies training and cuts the chance of the wrong drum being used on the wrong line.
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