Safer chemical processing system in the flexographic printing industry. This new system reduces the amount of solvents needed for printing, eliminates hazardous solvents, reduces explosion potential and emissions during solvent recycling, and increases worker safety. This system includes washout solvents and reclamation/recycling machinery. All solvents can be recycled in the Cold Reclaim System™, which sustainably recycles solvents through filtration and centrifugation. These less toxic solvents use methyl esters and highly substituted, cyclic hydrocarbons that are biodegradable and produced from renewable resources. Traditional systems use toxic washout solvents (chlorinated and saturated hydrocarbons) that are hazardous air pollutants.
EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2006 Small Business Award
