The same characteristics that make Vertrel® solvents an excellent cleaner—heavy, nonflammable and highly soluble with many types of contamination—also permit Vertrel® solvents to carry coatings and lubricants and deposit those coatings precisely where they are required.

The coating or lubricant must either be soluble in Vertrel® solvents or have a specific gravity similar to Vertrel® solvents. The most common coatings are silicones lubricants and PTFE powdered coatings.

Vertrel® solvents carry the coating and deposit it on the surface being lubricated during a dipping process. The primary benefit of using Vertrel® solvents in this application is the speed or throughput of this solvent-based process. Most users also feel the process delivers a superior coating, which improves product quality. The surfaces do not have to be flat for this coating process to work; irregular shapes and blind vias can be coated as easily as a disk drive platter.

Yes, Vertrel® solvents can easily dissolve silicone lubricants and residues. Vertrel® is an excellent choice when silicone lubricants are required, such as in many medical applications. Vertrel® can carry up to 8% silicone by weight, which makes it far more cost effective than the other choices. Many customers are switching from HCFC-141b carrying agents and finding that Vertrel® solvents work very well in this application.

Yes. Many PTFE "dry lubricants" and coatings use Vertrel® solvents as the carrying agent. These are normally applied in a dipping process. These processes work particularly well with Vertrel® because Vertrel® has some capability to dissolve PTFE and the densities of the material are similar to each other. Coatings produced with Vertrel® will have superior lubricity to coatings produced with HCFC-141b carrying agents because of the intrinsically closer match chemically between the Vertrel® and the PTFE lubricant. The end result is a PTFE coating that is exceptionally smooth, free of runs and drips, and highly cost-effective.

The handling of the dipping process is simplified, as well, with Vertrel® because the material stays in suspension better than with the lighter carrying agents. This improves quality and reduces rework while simplifying the need to constantly agitate the dipping solution.

• Cleans lead-free and no-clean fluxes
• Excellent solvency power (high KB value); superior cleaning performance
• Low surface tension; penetrates tight spaces
• Fast, residue-free drying; increases productivity
• Compatible with a broad range of substrates and contaminants
• Cost effective; lower your per-parts cleaning costs
• Superior technical support available to aid process design/troubleshooting

• Excellent solvency power (high KB value); superior cleaning performance
• Fast, residue-free drying; increases productivity
• Compatible with a broad range of substrates and contaminants
• Cost effective; lower your per-parts cleaning costs
• Specific grades available for high-volume, spot-free drying process
• Superior technical support available to aid process design/troubleshooting

• Fast, residue-free drying
• Compatible with a broad range of substrates and contaminants
• Excellent carrier for silicone deposition or other thin films
• Good solvency strength
• Special grades available to be used for silicone tube swelling
• Cost effective; lower your per-parts cleaning costs
• Superior technical support available to aid process design/troubleshooting