Metal Cleaning at Robotchemie

High-Performance Metal Cleaning: Efficiency, Precision & Sustainability
In today’s industrial landscape, the cleaning of components has evolved from a mere auxiliary activity into a decisive, mission-critical process step. Whether in classic mechanical engineering, the highly automated automotive industry, or sensitive medical technology—the chemical-technical purity of component surfaces forms the indispensable foundation for all downstream finishing processes such as coating, hardening, bonding, or welding. Only a residue-free surface guarantees the necessary adhesion and long-term stability of the final products.

ROBOTCHEMIE views modern metal cleaning as a complex, synergetic interplay of innovative chemistry, coordinated mechanics, precise temperature control, and defined time.

Our mission is to provide highly specialized cleaning systems that not only guarantee technically excellent and reproducible results but also make a significant contribution to resource conservation and the substantial reduction of process costs. In doing so, we consistently rely on sound technical advice and products that withstand the ever-increasing requirements for environmental compatibility, emission protection, and occupational safety at all times.

Process Reliability Meets Cost Efficiency

In industrial manufacturing, the defined cleanliness of components is a fundamental prerequisite for quality assurance. Our ROBOTAN series is designed to harmonize the necessary technical purity standards with the economic requirements of modern production processes. In this context, we consider cost-effectiveness over the entire life cycle of a cleaning bath.

Optimization of Bath Service Life

Due to high soil-carrying capacity and excellent buffering capacity, our formulations maintain their cleaning effect over a significantly longer period. This leads to a measurable reduction in change intervals, whereby both the disposal costs for spent media and process-related plant downtimes can be minimized. This protects the budget and increases the available capacity of your production.

Dependable Supply Security

With production at our site in Germany, we guarantee consistent, certified product quality and support the long-term stability of your processes. This reliability ensures the continuity of your production lines.

Material Compatibility and Value Retention

The formulations are specifically calibrated to the metallurgical properties of aluminum (AL), ferrous metals (FE), non-ferrous metals (CU), and stainless steel. This targeted chemical adaptation prevents undesirable reactions such as corrosion, pitting, or optical discoloration, permanently securing the specified surface finish of your workpieces. Preserving material integrity is our primary goal in order to sustainably reduce scrap rates.

Environmentally Compatible Cleaning Concepts

VOC-Free and Phosphate-Free Formulations

Adhering to increasingly stringent environmental and occupational safety regulations represents a central challenge in modern industrial cleaning. Our cleaning systems are designed to proactively meet these regulatory requirements without compromising the necessary cleaning performance in the process. We support you in making your production ecologically sustainable while simultaneously ensuring operational compliance.

VOC-Free

Our specialized series ROBOTAN 907, ROBOTAN 910, ROBOTAN 915 sowie ROBOTAN 500 contain no volatile organic compounds. This makes a significant contribution to the occupational safety of your employees and to the exhaust air compliance of your facility.

Phosphate-Free

Solutions such as ROBOTAN 680 and ROBOTAN 910 significantly reduce your company’s wastewater impact. By eliminating phosphates, the requirements for wastewater treatment are reduced, and compliance with municipal discharge limits is facilitated. This leads to an improved environmental balance and indirectly lowers the process-related costs of water management.

Recyclable

The specifically adjusted demulsifying properties of our cleaners support modern oil separation systems and enable effective recirculation of the cleaning medium. Tramp oils are efficiently separated from the cleaner, extending the bath’s service life and massively reducing resource consumption per cleaned component.

Custom Formulations through Individual Laboratory Development

Should the standard solutions listed in our online portfolio not precisely meet your specific requirements, our in-house laboratory provides the necessary capacities for dedicated custom development. We understand that complex material combinations, new generations of cooling lubricants, or particularly demanding component geometries require chemistry that goes beyond conventional standards.

In close coordination with your technical department, we analyze the present residues and modify our surfactant systems and additive packages with pinpoint accuracy.

This process guarantees residue-free cleaning and maximum material preservation, tailored exactly to your existing plant technology and process parameters—for results without compromise.

Collaborating on the Optimal Solution

Your Direct Path to Expertise

Selecting the perfect chemistry is the foundation for long-term process reliability and economic efficiency. If you do not find the appropriate specification for your application within our current assortment, we will develop it for you. Our goal is to provide you not just with a product, but with a process-ready system solution that makes your manufacturing future-proof. Whether you need to clarify material compatibility for sensitive alloys or require detailed technical data sheets for your process planning, our application engineers are available for well-founded expert consultation. Leverage our expertise to eliminate vulnerabilities in your cleaning chain and trim your production for maximum performance.

Do you have specific questions regarding material compatibility or do you require a technical data sheet for your planning?

Frequently asked Questions (FAQ)

The choice of cleaner type is primarily determined by the chemical nature of the contamination and material compatibility. While alkaline formulations effectively dissolve organic residues such as grease, acidic cleaners serve to remove inorganic oxide layers. Neutral cleaning systems, on the other hand, ensure material-friendly surface treatment for moderate contamination in highly sensitive industrial manufacturing processes.

VOC-free cleaning agents eliminate hazardous emissions of volatile organic compounds, thus sustainably improving occupational safety in production halls. By dispensing with these substances, complex permit procedures for exhaust systems are eliminated, and compliance with strict emission control regulations is simplified. This reduces the administrative documentation workload and secures the long-term regulatory compliance of your industrial cleaning plants.

Dedicated laboratory development enables the precise fine-tuning of surfactant systems to specific material combinations and stubborn residues that are often insufficiently dissolved by standard products. This individualization guarantees residue-free surfaces for subsequent processes, minimizes chemical resource consumption, and sustainably optimizes the overall process time. As a result, you achieve higher process reliability with simultaneously reduced operating costs.

Precise control of physical parameters ensures that the use of energy and chemistry corresponds exactly to the actual requirement. Optimized wash temperatures and concentration levels shorten cycle times and significantly reduce the mechanical wear of the cleaning system. Our expert on-site analysis identifies these efficiency potentials to permanently increase the cost-effectiveness of your cleaning processes and demonstrably conserve resources.