Using biocides more efficiently

Vink Chemicals strongly recommends biozide users to pursue more efficient biozide use in order to achieve the required product preservation even with lower biozide dosages. For this purpose, Vink Chemicals offers its customers hygiene audits, consulting, test kits, and customized operational hygiene concepts.

The biocide market is constantly changing due to current legislation. The use of many biocides in products such as paints and coatings is increasingly regulated for end users. Vink Chemicals therefore recommends biocide users to pursue more efficient biocide application in order to achieve the necessary product preservation even with lower biocide dosages.

For an efficient use of biocides, especially operational hygiene should be monitored and evaluated through continuous hygiene monitoring. Biocides can then be used more targeted and economically.

Vink Chemicals offers hygiene audits, consulting, and customized operational hygiene concepts for its customers. The goals of these measures are a better hygiene level in the facilities, faster and improved incoming goods inspections, optimized biocide use, less waste, and lower costs. For hygiene monitoring, Vink Chemicals recommends real-time analysis kits that, based on an ATP (adenosine triphosphate) reaction, allow an assessment of the hygienic condition of production equipment with minimal effort. If paints and coatings are produced and filled under hygienically better conditions, the required pot preservation can be dosed more precisely. This reduces costs and is environmentally friendly.

Test kits provide valuable data

The ATP tests are simple to use and allow reliable determination of the most common product-damaging microorganisms at any location and in almost any sample material within a few minutes. The test works by detecting the ATP produced by existing microorganisms in a simple biochemical reaction with the enzyme luciferase, which produces light and can be detected by the second-generation ATP analyzer. Differentiation between dead and living cells is also possible. Six efficient test kits enable quick assessment of the hygiene status of water, cooling water, wastewater, industrial process and metalworking fluids, product samples, as well as oils and fuels.

Further quantitative identification of specific bacteria, yeasts, and molds can be performed using ready-made agar-coated dip slides. These allow simple surface swabs or immersion in the sample material, with colonies being counted after incubation of up to three days.

Based on the test results, it can be determined which measures need to be taken: rejection of goods, biocide application, or cleaning of production equipment with Vinkocide system cleaners. Unlike conventional cleaning agents, which often only disinfect the surfaces of biofilms, these cleaners can detach and remove biofilms. Thus, Vink Chemicals' system cleaners ensure a true, sustainable cleaning of the equipment with long-term effects.