• BAC 821: Light duty cleaning – for regular cleaning and adhesive change over.
• BAC 297: Medium duty cleaning – for some light build up of gelled adhesive and slight charring.
• BAC 1917: Medium to heavy duty cleaning – for build up of gelled and charred hot melt adhesive; medium contamination.
• BAC 1976: Cleaning fluid, developed for use with reactive PUR hot melt adhesives
• BAC 2031: Purging compound, developed for use with reactive PUR hot melt adhesives - pigmented blue
• BAMSOLVE: Heavy duty cleaning – for surface cleaning and baked on char; heavy contamination.

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Why keep systems clean

Manufacturing efficiency and consistent adhesive performance – two reasons which should be of major interest to end users of hot melt adhesives. There are two aspects to hot melt cleaning:

• External contamination of machinery parts with hot melt. External contamination creates an inefficient working environment through transfer of adhesive on to other materials, either within the process or external to it. Adhesive transfer can cause bond mis-alignment and possible machine down time.
• Internal contamination of tanks, hoses and application heads with degraded hot melt.  Internal contamination has more serious consequences, including:
• Blocking and misfiring of nozzles
• Viscosity changes leading to incorrect metering of the adhesive
• Change in performance characteristics of the adhesive.

With BAMFutura hot melt adhesive you won't need to clean your systems.

By selecting Beardow Adams' unique BAMFutura adhesives, customers do not only get versatile performance, they get a higher stability and gives cleaner running adhesive than conventional hot melts. This results in a cleaner, more efficient production line.

• Excellent thermal stability, leading to lower maintenance costs
• No charring, cleaner machines. 
• Minimal downtime. 
• Reduced parts costs

• Cleaner running, leading to lower downtime costs 
• Reduced stringing. 
• No dripping from nozzles – or blocking. 
• Reduced service time

Make BAMFutura part of your cleaning process. Click here for other benefits of using BAMFutura hot melts

Cleaning protocols

The frequency of cleaning depends upon many factors, including:

• Choice of adhesive – highly stable hot melts such as BAMFutura reduce cleaning needs.
• General 'house keeping' – cleanliness during the use of an adhesive.
• Temperature control – reducing temperatures when an adhesive is not in use, so reducing ‘cooking’ in the system.

For trouble-free running of hot melt systems, thorough cleaning once a year during factory shut-down for maintenance is preferable to more frequent but less intense cleaning. In addition, spillages of solid or molten hot melt adhesives should be cleaned away as soon as possible and carried out in conjunction with appropriate safety procedures.

In some instances, removal of hot melt adhesive from machine parts can be achieved without the use of special cleaners.


Beardow Adams' cleaning range to remove hot melt adhesives

BAC 821

BAC 821 is recommended as a cleaning fluid for removing some light build-up of hot melt adhesive gel and to loosen char (carbonised adhesive) in tanks and hoses within hot melt application systems.  It is formulated to work where there is minimal contamination.

Supplied in pastilles, BAC 821 should be heated and flushed through pressurised systems or drained through ‘wheel in pot’ type applicators.

Suggested temperature for use: up to 160°C. 


BAC 297

BAC 297 is recommended for removing build-ups of hot melt adhesive gel and to loosen char (carbonised adhesive) in tanks and hoses in hot melt application systems.

As with BAC 821, BAC 297 should be flushed through pressurised systems or drained through ‘wheel in pot’ type applicators.

Suggested temperature for use: up to 160°C.


BAC 1917

BAC 1917 is an effective specifically formulated hot melt cleaning agent that, when molten, will remove charred hot melt from most application equipment – jetting units, wheel in pot applicators and daubers.

BAC 1917 should be heated and flushed through pressurised systems or drained through ‘wheel in pot’ type applicators.

Suggested temperature for use: 150 to 175°C. 


BAC 1976

BAC 1976 is a colouless cleaning fluid used for reactive hot melt adhesives (PUR) and can be used as a general purpose cleaning and flushing agent. BAC 1976 can be used to clean heated rollers by and is also used for flushing guns.

As with BAC 821 and BAC 297, BAC 1976 is designed to be flushed through pressurised systems or drained through “wheel in pot” type applicators.

Suggested temperature for use: up to 160°C. 


BAC 2031

BAC 2031 is a blue pigmented formulation designed for purging systems used for reactive hot melt adhesives (PUR).

As with BAC 821, BAC 297 and BAC 1976, it is designed to be flushed through pressurised systems.

Suggested temperature for use: up to 160°C.


BAMSOLVE

Bamsolve is a natural solvent hot melt adhesive cleaner derived from citrus extract. It may be used to remove hot melt which has splashed or spilt on to machinery, metal surfaces, ceramics, glass, wood and most other surfaces – but it can attack certain plastics. Bamsolve can also be used for cleaning parts – e.g. nozzles, filters and spray heads.

NB Bamsolve is a liquid and should never be heated.