Use: Cleaning - Precision
TURI offers grants to help Massachusetts businesses adopt safer alternatives to toxic chemicals.
TURI offers grants to help Massachusetts businesses adopt safer alternatives to toxic chemicals.
N-propyl bromide has both acute and chronic adverse health effects.
Perchloroethylene (PCE) has both acute and chronic adverse health effects.
Higher Hazard Substance Designation Recommendation:
Trichloroethylene – TCE (CAS 79-01-6)
Halogenated solvents have historically been used
for a wide variety of industrial surface cleaning
needs in numerous industry sectors.
A manufacturer of electronic capacitors, saved $46,000 per year working with TURI to find a safer alternative to n-propyl bromide (nPB) in cleaning processes.
CD Aero, located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, shares lessons learned as they eliminated the use of n-propyl bromide (nPB), a TURA Higher Hazard Substance that is “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” by the National Toxicology Program.