Cleaners & Degreasers for Transportation & Rail

Heavy-duty cleaners and degreasers for locomotives, rolling stock, shop floors and fleet vehicles, metal preparation chemistry for maintenance and repaint work, and sanitation chemistry for passenger equipment and facilities. Cold weather performance matters more here than in most sectors because much of the washing happens outdoors.

An alkaline heavy-duty degreaser matched to the mix, because road film is part hydrocarbon and part mineral and neither responds to a single chemistry. The practical constraints are contact time on a vertical surface and whether the runoff can be contained, both of which shape the product more than cleaning power does.

With chemistry formulated to work at low ambient and low water temperature, and with realistic expectations about dwell time. Products lose performance as temperature falls, and a longer dwell at the right concentration works better than turning up pressure or heat, which mostly moves soil around.

Plan it before the wash. Runoff from rolling stock cleaning carries hydrocarbon, metals and solids and is regulated in most jurisdictions. We provide the expected characteristics for the product and dose so your environmental group can confirm the containment and treatment capacity ahead of time.

Full removal of oil, road film and old coating residue, then a surface treatment suited to the substrate and the coating system. Most repaint adhesion failures trace to residual contamination that survived a cleaning stage running below its intended temperature or concentration.

With products cleared for occupied transport interiors and contact times that fit a real turnaround. The binding constraint is almost always the time available between arrival and departure, so the procedure has to be designed around that window rather than around the label’s ideal case.

Yes, if it is not matched. Aluminium, painted surfaces, polycarbonate windows and elastomer seals all have their own compatibility limits, and an aggressive alkaline cleaner left too long on aluminium will etch it. We confirm compatibility for the specific surfaces involved before recommending a product.

With standardised products and dilution settings so procedures are portable between shops, regional representation for support, and planned stocking so a location is not waiting on freight. Consistency across sites is what makes training and quality control workable on a network.

At our plant in Sturgeon County, Alberta, with US production at Kissimmee, Florida. For operators running on both sides of the border, that means the same products with domestic manufacturing in each country rather than cross-border freight on every order.