{"id":897,"date":"2023-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/case-study-bioact-ec-98-ultrasonic-defluxer\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:03:24","slug":"case-study-bioact-ec-98-ultrasonic-defluxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/case-study-bioact-ec-98-ultrasonic-defluxer\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: BIOACT EC-98 Ultrasonic Defluxer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CUSTOMER:<\/strong> US Military depot maintenance facility<\/p>\n<p><strong>CUSTOMER&#8217;S PRODUCT:<\/strong> Fighter aircraft<\/p>\n<p><strong>CUSTOMER CAPABILITIES:<\/strong> Provides aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), including paint removal of aircraft structures and components.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CURRENT PAINT REMOVAL PROCESS:<\/strong> Exterior paint is removed from the aircraft by plastic media blasting (PMB). Many of the paints used contain chrome-based epoxy primers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>\nCase Study: BIOACT EC-98 Ultrasonic Defluxer<\/h3>\n<p><strong>PROBLEM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blasting equipment was aging and unreliable, impacting turnaround times and the ability for the aircraft to be mission-ready. In addition, the process generated carcinogenic airborne chrome particles which is a recognized health concern.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOLUTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vantage proposed using Vantage\u2122 B&amp;B\u2122 9095 Aircraft Paint Remover to chemically remove the paint.<\/p>\n<p>B&amp;B 9095 is a thickened, hydrogen-peroxide activated paint remover designed to safely and effectively remove epoxy, polyurethane and other paint systems from aircraft and component surfaces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>B&amp;B 9095 effectively removed the paint and was proven to work more quickly, requiring 3 fewer shifts versus blasting. It is believed this process improvement will save up to 50 days in labor per year. This process also eliminated the health hazard of blasting chrome-containing paint stackups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER FEATURES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Industry leading 18+ month shelf life<br \/>\nReady to use and highly thickened to cling to vertical and inverted surfaces<br \/>\nDoes not contain MeCl, nMP, phenols, chromates or acids<br \/>\npH neutral, very low odor and low EHS impact<br \/>\nFormulated to minimize drying out<br \/>\nMeets and conforms to aerospace specifications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CUSTOMER: US Military depot maintenance facility CUSTOMER&#8217;S PRODUCT: Fighter aircraft CUSTOMER CAPABILITIES: Provides aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), including paint removal of aircraft structures and components. CURRENT PAINT REMOVAL PROCESS: Exterior paint is removed from the aircraft by plastic media blasting (PMB). Many of the paints used contain chrome-based epoxy primers. &nbsp; Case Study: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"market":[85],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-study","market-industrial-specialties"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"market","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantagegrp.wp.cooldomain.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/market?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}