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Wastewater treatment in flexographic printing presents significant challenges for industrial companies. High dye concentrations, constantly changing compositions, and increasing environmental and process safety requirements demand powerful and reliable treatment solutions. Conventional methods often reach their limits, resulting in unstable processes, higher chemical consumption, and insufficient water quality. (...)

Acetone is widely used across many industrial applications due to its strong solvent properties. However, its use is often associated with well known challenges. High flammability, rapid evaporation, strong odor, and increased safety requirements can create additional operational and regulatory burdens.

As a result, replacing acetone with modern solvent solutions has become increasingly important for companies seeking safer, more sustainable, and process efficient alternatives. (...)

The demands on efficient and sustainable wastewater treatment continue to increase. Industrial wastewater treatment plants face stricter discharge limits, rising cost pressure and the need for reliable and stable processes. ZetaPol has been developed precisely to meet these challenges.
With the commissioning of a new state of the art production facility last year, Färber & Schmid AG has taken a major technological step forward. This new plant enables the development and manufacture of innovative powdered flocculants that have not previously been available on the market in this form. (...)

Färber & Schmid AG has commissioned a new facility for the production of powdered flocculants at its Rafz site. With this latest investment of around €1.5 million, the company is sign (...)

Färber & Schmid AG will concentrate fully on the chemicals business in the future. As part of this strategic realignment, the company has transferred its technical and service division to ProWaTech AG. All employees have been taken over by ProWaTech, ensuring that familiar contacts remain available.  (...)

A manufacturer of specialised steel components for the fuel cell industry was looking for an environmentally and employee-friendly yet powerful cleaning system or paint remover for the removal of stubborn PAI (polyamide-imide) baking finishes. (...)

On May 22, 2025, the 22nd Northern German Electroplating Day took place at Hotel Hennies in Isernhagen – a key industry event for professionals in surface and electroplating technology. Our colleague Dipl.-Ing. Steffen Genz was invited as a speaker and presented to an audience of around 70 participants on the topic of modern approaches to industrial wastewater treatment.  (...)

Sodium sulphide is one of the oldest known metal precipitants used in industrial waste water treatment in electroplating. Traditionally, sodium sulphide is often used for galvanizing, but also for copper plating in the printed circuit board sector. Whenever pure hydroxide precipitation is not sufficient, sulphides that produce metal salts with very low residual solubility are used. (...)

Three exciting days in Nuremberg lie behind us with many interesting discussions, new contacts and valuable exchanges about our solvents and cleaners. (...)

Replacing problematic solvents - tailored to your needs - with sustainable specialty cleaners

In recent years, chemical regulations in various parts of the world (REACH in Europe, TSCA in the USA) have resulted in an increasing number of solvents and cleaning products being re-evaluated and reclassified for their toxicological effects. Well-known and highly effective substances such as NMP (N-methylpyrrolidone), NEP (N-ethylpyrrolidone) and DMF (dimethylformamide) have been subjected to stricter classifications with new labelling requirements and their use has been restricted in some cases. (...)