Clean and Sanitized: How Electropolishing Helps You Maintain the Safest Possible Equipment Now more than ever, the cleanliness of your company’s equipment is vital to the safety and well-being of your customers. Regardless of your industry, it’s important to ensure the surfaces of your metal equipment and tools are free from harmful bacteria, especially in […]

Clean and Sanitized: How Electropolishing Helps You Maintain the Safest Possible Equipment

Now more than ever, the cleanliness of your company’s equipment is vital to the safety and well-being of your customers.

Regardless of your industry, it’s important to ensure the surfaces of your metal equipment and tools are free from harmful bacteria, especially in industries dealing directly with customers first-hand or with public health.

At Control Electropolishing, we pride ourselves in providing a quality electropolishing finishing service that will provide your metal part with a lustrous finish that is easily maintained and cleaned.

Cleanliness on the Chemical Level

Through the electropolishing finishing option, stainless steel metal parts, as well as other metal alloys, undergo an electrochemical process by which the surface layers of the material are removed, allowing for a polished, passivated, and deburred piece of metal that is easily sanitized and much stronger and more durable.

During electropolishing finishing treatment, the metal part is submerged in a chemical bath, typically in a high-viscosity mixture of phosphoric and sulfuric acids. This process removes the outermost surface layer of the metal, which creates the ultrasmooth and shiny surface that is the prominent characteristic of the electropolishing finishing method.

Once the treatment is complete, the finished part is less susceptible to the impregnation of harmful bacteria that may pose significant health risks to your customers and employees. This increased sterilization of the metal ensures a far safer working and manufacturing environment for your company.

Caring for and Maintaining Your Electropolished Metal Parts

After treatment of your metal part, it’s important to take the necessary measures to maintain cleanliness to ensure the longevity of your finished equipment tools. The first and most important step is sanitizing your metal parts frequently to rid the surface from bacteria and to limit further impregnation.

For more information on electropolishing and our other finishing service options, including passivation and pickling, please contact us today at (718) 858-6634.