Common Challenge
Manual cleaning is still a dominant method of cleaning within the industry, but this method may limit your facility's ability to optimize its labor and uptime. Manual cleaning can pose safety hazards for workers; eliminating stubborn residues becomes much more labor intensive and time-consuming task. Additionally, the nature of manual cleaning means you are prone to operator variability and therefore increases your risk.

Consider a Better Option
Ecolab technical experts can help optimize your cleaning and sanitization regime. By adopting more efficient and automated cleaning practices, manufacturers can minimize risks and help ensure cleaner equipment. Streamlined protocols not only enhance product integrity but also save time and resources.

How Does This Add Value?
With Ecolab, you can optimize your current cleaning practices, ensure cleaner equipment, reduce risk, and save time and resources.

Common Challenge
Traditionally, the industry has relied on solvents, standard caustics, and raw materials for cleaning. However, with new generation formulations and increasingly difficult-to-clean ingredients, these methods are falling short. Not only do they pose risks such as equipment corrosion and safety hazards for workers, but they also fail to achieve the necessary levels of cleanliness. This leads to repeated cleanings that consume excessive amounts of water and time.

Consider a Better Option
Consider using detergents, such as those from Ecolab, specifically designed to address the unique challenges of cosmetic and personal care manufacturing. These advanced cleaning solutions provide targeted efficacy against various residues, ensuring thorough and efficient cleaning.

How Does This Add Value?
By switching to Ecolab’s Maxi alkaline detergent, one of our *customers reduced downtime by 225 hours annually.

*Click here to read the entire case study. Les résultats de cette étude de cas sont propres à ce client précis et peuvent varier pour d'autres clients, selon les facteurs et le contexte particuliers de leurs activités. 

Common Challenge
Heated water and steam have been a go-to method for cleaning and sanitization; however, this approach comes with drawbacks, including increased energy consumption, longer cleaning times, increased risk of thermal stress on sensitive equipment, and increased risks to worker safety.

Consider a Better Option
Using specialized detergents during both cleaning and sanitization steps offers a more reliable solution. Formulated for optimal performance with industry-specific soils, these detergents enable operators to effectively and efficiently remove stubborn residues, achieving cleanliness the first time and eliminating the need for re-cleanings. After cleaning, process sanitizers can effectively control microbial contamination. This comprehensive approach reduces energy costs, shortens cleaning time, minimizes the risk of equipment damage, and reduces the need for worker exposure to extreme temperatures.

How Does This Add Value?
By switching to Ecolab’s Oxonia Active sanitizer, one of our *customers saw a 92% reduction in sanitization time and a 100% reduction in thermal energy usage.

*Click here to read the entire case study. The results in this case study are specific to this customer and may vary for other customers based on factors and circumstances in their operations.

Common Challenge
In this dynamic market, production faces many competing priorities: capacity utilization, maximizing throughput, improving agility for large- and small-scale runs, and cutting costs. Amidst these priorities, thoughtful cleaning regimes and validation plans are often deprioritized, which may actually hinder your ability to meet those goals. One underutilized area is a production plan that considers designing and bracketing cleaning regimes based on worst-case ratings.

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Technical experts, like those at Ecolab, can assist in designing bespoke cleaning regimes and validation packages that maximize efficiency by grouping products based on formulation and cleanability, and ensuring you validate batches based on worst-case ratings within these product groups. Effective bracketing is essential for maximizing efficiency, as it defines the optimal times for implementing cleaning cycles. By taking a proactive approach to cleaning considerations when production planning, you can minimize disruptions, reduce cleaning frequency and keep operations running smoothly.

How Does This Add Value?
With bracketing, campaigning, and other cleaning in place (CIP) optimization practices, one of our *customers were able to reduce their CIP cycle time by 62% and the number of validation packages by 80%.

*Source: Click here to read the entire case study. The results in this case study are specific to this customer and may vary for other customers based on factors and circumstances in their operations.

Common Challenge
In cosmetic and personal care manufacturing, high-quality cleanliness and compliance standards are vital to protecting end consumers. However, traditional paper-based Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and tracking methods are often tiresome, prone to errors, and lead to inefficiencies. Miscommunication and data loss can easily compromise quality and safety. 

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Switching to a digital logbook provides visual instructions using various media and easy tracking. With real-time access, automated version control, and instant retrieval, digital solutions enhance accuracy and streamline compliance documentation. This shift not only minimizes human error but also boosts productivity across teams.

How Does This Add Value?
Switching to a digital logbook can boost accuracy, reduce errors, and enhance your site’s productivity.