Chemical Resistance and Alconox

Q. Have you evaluated effects of Alconox on metals, elastomers, thermoplastics, and rubbers? Do you have a chemical resistance table/chart for Alconox? Thanks.

A. Alconox is compatible with a wide range of metals and plastics. You can contact cleaning@alconox.com to receive a copy of the current chemical compatibility spreadsheet. In general Alconox can be used to clean stainless steel, polyethylene, polypropylene, synthetic rubber, and PEEK.

You need to be careful with acrylic and polycarbonate if they are stressed, because with sufficient contact time and temperature you can get stress cracking on stressed acrylic and polycarbonate with any low surface tension solution such as a Alconox detergent. Unstressed polycarbonate and acrylic can be cleaned with Alconox.

There can be darkening of copper and brass when you clean with Alconox – this is a surface formation of a dark copper oxide, which depending on the purpose of the cleaning may be acceptable.

For information on Alconox Cleaner, see this Alconox Technical Bulletin.  Or click here to access each of our detergent’s Material Data Safety Sheets. You can also request a free sample by completing the questionnaire at Get Sample.