CIP Science
Efficacy Testing and Research

Replace Clean-in-Place Assumptions and Guesswork
with Direct Measurement and Science

Ethox International is pleased to offer Ethox CIP Testing, a unique scientific service focused on:

• Understanding the chemistry taking place on the walls of your process piping, and how it is affected by your product mix and cleaning protocol.
• Designing improvements to your CIP that drive increased efficiency, consistency, and cost effectiveness.

Ethox CIP Testing works with manufacturing processes across multiple industries:
• Food and beverage manufacturing systems
• Water systems: ultrapure & industrial process water
• Pharmaceutical processes
• Paper and pulp manufacturing
• Biofuel manufacturing
• Energy generation

NOTE: Ethox STS does not manufacture, sell, or promote any chemicals or cleaning products. Rather, we provide a practical, science-based approach to analyze and measure the contamination inside your manufacturing and liquid-transfer processes.

Gain Valuable Insight into the
Activity Inside Your System

Prevent Costly Product and Process Problems:

• Early warning for issues of process cleanliness and health
• Predict wall-fouling propensity from a single product or a product family in your process
• Generate direct and objective CIP efficiency measurement data for data-driven decision making
• Design a cleaning procedure during product development, not after the product is launched in manufacturing
• Predictive modeling of process fouling and cleaning in the lab helps avoid costly trial-and-error in production

Decision-Driving Benefits that Deliver

• Site-to-site comparison of cleaning practices and cleaning impact. Understand which of your sites is best and why.
• Crew to crew comparison of cleaning practices. Finally, an opportunity to confirm and address your suspicions regarding inconsistent CIP from shift to shift and crew to crew.
• Selecting the cleaning chemicals that perform best, and using them in their most efficient concentration
• Implementing a cleaning methodology that is efficient and productive, rather than wasteful or over designed
• Establishing a cleaning frequency that is optimized for effectiveness, with a sensible, data-proven balance of production and maintenance

System Cleaning Problems
You already understand the implications of inefficient CIP:
• Product cross contamination
• Physical contaminants in the final product
• Chemical contamination within the final product
• Unplanned process down time for additional cleaning
• Random contamination events that are never completely solved

What is Happening Inside Your Pipes, Pumps, and Vessels?
You work closely with your supplier of cleaning chemicals, and we understand the value of that partnership. However, to recommend which cleaning chemicals to use, cleaning chemical suppliers only look at the cleaning water effluent from your process. Testing the water effluent will not help you understand what remains behind on the walls of the system, which can be a complex mixture of organisms, polymers and product chemicals that continue to build and negatively influence your product and process.

The Ethox Approach Starts With…
Understanding Your Specific Wall-Fouling Chemistry and Rate

Understanding Your Wall-Fouling CHEMISTRY Allows You to Select the Proper Cleaning Chemicals

Understanding Your Wall-Fouling RATE Allows You to Optimize Cleaning Frequency

…And Ends With
Optimized Recommendations for Your Specific Operation

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