How to choose Web Cleaning Systems & Non-contact wide web Cleaners from ElectroStatics, Inc The experts in static control products and web cleaners.

ElectroStatics, Inc web cleaning systems combine high-power ionization and precision vacuum to remove contaminants from paper, film and flexible substrates without contact. Designed for high-speed printing, laminating and converting lines, our non-contact web cleaners reduce rejects, minimize downtime and improve downstream adhesion and print quality.

Why web cleaning matters:

Web Cleaners and web cleaning systems are a critical piece of equipment in the modern printing laminating and converting environments. Controlling dust and contamination on the web improves productivity, product quality and profitability. Non contact webcleaners and non-contact web cleaning systems from the experts at ElectroStatics, Inc are the most advanced and cost effective non contact web cleaners on the market. Units range is in size from 3" (75mm) to 200" (5 meters).

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Contamination on the web and where is it coming from?

There are a number of sources of contamination in any process. In web applications some sources are:

• The roll of material - in many cases this can be the largest source of contamination especially with paper and fiber based material.
• Environment factors- Shop floor verses a white room or rated clean room. Proximity to outside doors
• Near by processes - are there dusty processes near by such as breaking down corrugated boxes, sanding, slitting or other processes that generate dust.
• Aggressive operations in the machine - stationary turning bars, embossing, slitting that will generate dust and or break fibers
• Keeping the area clean around the process or machine is always a good first step.

How is the contamination causing a problem in the process?

• Health and safety and House keeping - process generates so much dust it is a house keeping and heath and safety issue to the plant.
• The Contamination causes quality issues with printing, lamination, causing rejects in house or at customer
• Customer complaints - the contamination does not cause problems with your process but it does with your customers process
• Equipment reliability issues - dust in control enclosures, on sensors, and other sensitive parts can cause reliability issues with the equipment.

How clean does the process have to be to have a reliable, repeatable process that meets the standards for the product?

Setting a goal to remove all contamination may make any cleaning project very expensive and have a low or negative Return on Investment (ROI). It is better to understand your process as best you can. Removing 80-90+% of partials over a certain size is a more realistic goal and will generate a better Return on investment (ROI) on the web cleaner project.

Many web cleaning manufactures mention cleaning to very small partial size. They usually do not mention what percentage of the particals that size they are cleaning. What they also do not mention are the controlled conditions of the test that allowed them to make that statement. Visual contamation is in the 30-50 microm range. Non Contact web cleaners from Electrostatics INC retunily clean 90% of the contanmiantion at the 30-50 micron level and larger. The test result have shown that certian installitions we are cleaning higher than 90% and to single micron and submicron levels.

If the goal is to clean contamination below that range the process would need to be in a controlled ernviroment of a white room and possiblt entry level clean room. The smaller the target partical is the more control is needed in the enviroment around the process and the more expesive the orver all project will be.

Non Contact web cleaners vs Contact webcleaner pros and cons

Contact web cleaners rely on a tacky roll of material to clean a surface much like the lint roller. Contact cleaner can clean very small particales with the tacky surface is new and fresh. Like a lint roller the effectivness of the cleaning goes down as the material build up on the tacky roll. There are sometimes transfere rollers to clean the debris off the tacky roller, or a layer is removed from the roll to expose clean material, or the roll is replaced for disposal or off line cleaning. The down time and cost of maintaning and or replacing the tacky roll material has to be factored in to the operating cost with contact web cleaners. Also many processes do not want anything touching the surcase of the material which will excluse contact web cleaners.

Non Contact Web Cleaners realying on removing static electricity, introdusing small amounts of compressed air and vacuum to clean. The non-contact cleaning technology can clean at a distance and does not rely on contact to clean a web.

What experence does the supplier have at making non contact web cleaners?

ElectroStatics INC ( and it predissor Static INC) has been making web cleaners for over 50 years. The webcleaners from 8 to 500 cm and process speed from 1 cm/ minute to 800 meters / minute. Non Contact web cleaners from Electrostatics ICC retunily clean 90% of the contanmiantion at the 30-50 micron level and larger. The test result have show that certian installitions we are cleaning higher than 90% and to single micron and submicron levels

 

The advanced technology non contacting web cleaning systems offered by ElectroStatics, Inc are designed to eliminate the need for prolonged, repetitive cleaning, removing virtually 100% of all contaminants, outperforming all other existing methods. ElectroStatics design engineers can customize the webcleaning equipment to meet your special size and space requirements.  It also have 2 different innovative designs to accommodate narrow webs (<30" 0.75meters) and wide webs (>30" 0.75 meters)

Web cleaners are the most cost effective way to insure your valued added step is adding value and not generating waste. Ask about the ElectroStatics performance guarantee.

Wide web style web cleaners are available to any width web. For systems less than 30" see our narrow web design of web cleaners. See this page for web cleaners for digital printing presses.

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Web Cleaner for Digital  Printing Presses	Wide Web Cleaner (>30" .75meters) shown with stand and lift kit