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Speciality products for cleaning and coating Diversity and versatility are the keys to success in today’s wire and tube industries. Heatbath Corporation formulates, manufactures and services a comprehensive line of custom products to meet the varying demands of cleaning and coating processes. Heatbath’s technical expertise combined with production experience ensures sound product recommendations for increased productivity. Heatbath Corporation supplies products for alkaline cleaning, scale conditioning, acid inhibition, conditioners and neutralisers, zinc phosphates, immersion copper, oxalate coatings for stainless steel and both reactive and non-reactive lubricants. Heatbath Corporation is ISO 9001 certified and has blending facilities in Indian Orchard, MA, Chicago, IL and Detroit, MI.

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Heatbath Corporation – USA Website : www.heatbath.com

Pickling agent TI 70 For titanium and titanium alloys, Condoroil has developed a series of pickling products, free of nitric, hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid. Pickling agent TI 70 offers the following advantages: no emission of nitrogen oxides • into the atmosphere no nitrates in the solution • no metal embrittlement since no • hydrogen is generated no corrosion of the surface and • of the weld bead no risk of material over-pickling • no exothermic reaction • reduction of titanium con- • sumption no fluorides in the waste • allows the use of common • stainless steel tanks no problem of superficial colour- • ing of the material before the piece is rinsed with water, as happens with traditional pickling spent product and rinse water • can be purified simply by adding lime milk In addition, by working at higher concentrations it is possible to achieve a smoothing of the metal roughness and therefore to get a bright, satin finished surface.

IRIS anti-rust products Yangzhou Zhonghua South Technology Co Ltd specialises in the development, production and sale of IRIS grease for steel wire ropes and anti-rust oil for metal products and petroleum pipes. The company is also equipped to undertake trials, the production of additives, treatment of base oil, preparation of oil products, storage and inspection. IRIS grease products are effective in prolonging the usage of wire rope, with strong adhesion, excellent lubricity, anti-rust qualities and a high dropping point to suit wide temperature ranges experienced, for example, in the mining industry. IRIS grease products are easy to use. After 24 hours solidification a sticky soft lubricating film forms on the steel wire rope surface. IRIS diversified products are already in use to protect port machinery, engineering machinery, elevator equipment, petroleum machinery and mine steel wire ropes. Non-reactive wire drawing precoats Since its foundation in 1854, Condat has specialised in developing chemical products for the wire drawing industry, now adding several new precoats to its Vicafil TS product line. The new products can replace borax and zinc phosphate in many batch and inline applications. For stainless steel: Vicafil TS 1545 creates a rough, adherent crystal structure which significantly improves lubricant pick-up and drawability for both single and multi-pass operations found in spring wire and cold heading applications. Vicafil TS 1545 also exhibits low moisture pick-up, even at high relative humidity levels. For carbon steel: Vicafil TS 1550 is a non-toxic, sludge free, environmentally friendly salt coating, containing no boron salts. It has low moisture pick up with better corrosion resistance for both before and after drawing. Vicafil TS 1550 can be used after pickling or with mechanical descale processes to improve drawing performance. Condat AS – France Fax : +33 47807 3885 Email : info@condat.fr Website : www.condat.fr

Condoroil Impianti Srl – Italy Fax : +39 0332 945303 Email : info@condoroil.it Website : www.condoroil.com

Yangzhou Zhonghua South Technology Co Ltd – China Fax : +86 514 8776 1057 Email : sale@irischem.net

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