Published December 5, 2011
Yes, Even in the Winter
It is vitally important to use VCI products all year long. Some of our customers use VCI only in the warm, humid months because that is when rust and corrosion is at its worst. It is true that for most companies, rust is at its peak during the summer, but rust can still be a major problem during the colder months of autumn and winter.
Many of our customers typically use VCI paper and VCI bags only in the warm, humid months of spring and summer. While it is important to protect your metal parts from rust and corrosion during those warm months, it is equally important to provide VCI protection for your parts during the cold winter months.
There are several reasons for using VCI products during the winter months. Here are some of them:
- Your parts are packed indoors at room temperature. When you ship those parts by truck, they are subject to much colder weather, and then when your parts are delivered to your customers, they go back indoors to room temperature. These fluctuations in temperature will cause condensation to form on your parts, causing them to be susceptible to corrosion and rust. Proper packaging with VCI products will prevent rust and corrosion even in the midst of condensation.
- While your parts may be shipped to your customer in January or February, they may end up on your customer’s shelf until June or July, and will at that time be subject to higher temperatures and high humidity. These conditions will cause condensation and rust to form. Again, the proper use of VCI packaging will prevent rust from forming.
- If you use VCI products only for part of the year, your employees can get out of the habit of using VCI products, and could ship parts during summer months without VCI protection. By using VCI products to protect your parts all year long, every shipment, your employees get in the good habit of protecting every shipment all year long, and eliminating rust and corrosion all year long.
Contact a VCI packaging expert to provide you with the expertise that is necessary to use and apply VCI products correctly. You can learn more about VCI by visiting this informative web site. VCI products protect metal parts from rust and corrosion without the need for messy grease and oils.
Published January 27, 2011Many of our customers typically use VCI paper and VCI bags only in the warm, humid months of spring and summer. While it is important to protect your metal parts from rust and corrosion during those warm months, it is equally important to provide VCI protection for your parts during the cold winter months.
There are several reasons for using VCI products during the winter months. Here are some of them:
- Your parts are packed indoors at room temperature. When you ship those parts by truck, they are subject to much colder weather, and then when your parts are delivered to your customers, they go back indoors to room temperature. These fluctuations in temperature will cause condensation to form on your parts, causing them to be susceptible to corrosion and rust. Proper packaging with VCI products will prevent rust and corrosion even in the midst of condensation
- While your parts may be shipped to your customer in January or February, they may end up on your customer’s shelf until June or July, and will at that time be subject to higher temperatures and high humidity. These conditions will cause condensation and rust to form. Again, the proper use of VCI packaging will prevent rust from forming.
- If you use VCI products only for part of the year, your employees can get out of the habit of using VCI products, and could ship parts during summer months without VCI protection. By using VCI products to protect your parts all year long, every shipment, your employees get in the good habit of protecting every shipment all year long, and eliminating rust and corrosion all year long.
Contact a VCI packaging expert to provide you with the expertise that is necessary to use and apply VCI products correctly. You can learn more about VCI by visiting this informative web site. VCI products protect metal parts from rust and corrosion without the need for messy grease and oils.
Published September 2, 2010It’s hard to believe that Summer is almost over, and the end of August is right around the corner. With this summer’s high heat and humidity across much of the nation, we at Green Packaging, Inc. have been really busy helping solve rust and corrosion issues from coast to coast! So busy that for the first time, I didn’t have time to send out a July newsletter, and almost missed August too!
Green Packaging, Inc. is having a record-breaking year! We have provided corrosion and rust solutions to hundreds of companies, and we continue to grow! Our commitment to solving rust problems for our customers has been rewarded.
Just because Summer is nearly over, doesn’t necessarily mean that all of your rust and corrosion issues will also go away. We recommend using VCI paper and VCI bags year-round, to ensure that your parts remain rust-free. Even if you are producing parts in low temperature, low humidity months, they may sit on your shelf or your customer’s shelf for months, which means they have been susceptible to great fluctuations in temperature, causing condensation and forming rust and corrosion. The simple solution is to continue to use rust inhibiting VCI paper and VCI bags year-round throughout your operations. This includes in-process parts that are waiting in queue for secondary operations, or waiting to be packaged. Always cover in-process parts with VCI to keep them rust-free
We know your pain, and we have the solution, so contact us today for more information.
Toll-Free 1-877-822-0552
or e-mail Wayne@Green-VCI.com.
Published August 13, 2010VCI paper is coated with rust inhibiting chemicals. These chemicals vaporize into the air around the metal parts protecting them from rust and corrosion. VCI paper used in shipping metal parts eradicates the need for airtight packages.
Look for environmentally safe VCI paper approved by the US military.
With all those chemicals vaporizing, is VCI paper healthy for the environment? Not all VCI papers are alike in this respect.When purchasing rust inhibiting VCI paper, make sure to enquire whether the papers are environmentally safe, fully recyclable and repulpable, biodegradable and non-toxic. Some VCI Paper contain nitrites or heavy metals, and can harm the environment. In addition, not all VCI papers are approved on the prestigious Qualified Product List (QPL) for Military specification MIL-PRF-3420, an approval that dates back to 1983. When choosing VCI paper, it is important to check to ensure that the paper is approved on this list.
Choose the Right Paper for your Metal.
Different types of VCI papers are specifically manufactured to provide the best rust protection for each particular metal. There are VCI papers designed specifically for different types of metals, and for length of time to be protected.There are huge differences in metal composition and one VCI paper does not meet all metal protection needs for every metal. You can use a rust inhibitor paper or an anti rust paper.A knowledgeable sales person can tell you exactly how much VCI is contained in each paper type, and which will keep your products corrosion free for years.
For instance, VCI Paper for ferrous metals is designed to protect steel parts and wires, die casting, springs, bearings, and stampings.VCI Paper for non-ferrous metals is designed to protect non-ferrous metals. VCI multi-metal papers prevent corrosion on non-ferrous metals and multi-metal products like zinc, aluminum alloys, copper alloys and dissimilar metal components such as circuit boards.
Choose a VCI Paper Coated on Both Sides.
Make sure the VCI papers you purchase are impregnated with VCI on both sides. This avoids confusion about which side to place against the part when packing, as well as the ability to interleave the paper within a pallet of parts so that less paper is required in the packaging.
Sue McCrossin is a freelance writer working with Green-VCI to shed light on the subject of VCI Paper and options that can be used when packaging and shipping metal parts to avoid rust and corrosion. For more information on metal rust removal visit www.green-vci.com.
Published June 9, 2010In many cases, rust can happen to metal tools and parts that are exposed to moisture and oxygen over time. Metal corrodes, or “breaks down” due to chemical reactions caused by atmosphere and surroundings. Oxidation of iron atoms weakens metals. When metal reacts with water and oxygen over a period of time, it loses electrons, and this loss results in the iron becoming weak, corroded, and rust covered. Fork Truck exhaust, heat treatments, and other by-products from the metal manufacturing process especially sulfurous gases, acid vapors, and ammonia gases can also contribute to rust. Those processes and environmental changes such as humidity, long periods of time spent in storage, and transportation accelerate the rust.
Preventing Rust Before it Starts: Why is it important to use rust preventative VCI paper and rust preventative VCI packaging?
Rust and corrosion contribute to waste—of both metal parts and money for businesses and consumers. Rust and corrosion is both unsightly and can greatly damage and weaken the structural integrity of metal parts, causing them to become unusable.
Some metal parts manufacturing and metal forming companies use rust preventative oils instead of rust preventative paper to prevent metal pieces and parts from corrosion and rust. The R.P. oils act as a barrier or coating between the metal and the elements, shielding parts and pieces from salt, moisture, air, gases, and contaminants. These R.P. oils are effective in preventing rust and corrosion, but have negative side effects.
Let’s compare R.P. oils to a rust preventative paper alternative.
R.P. Oils: Both time consuming and labor intensive to apply rust preventative oils, usually by spraying, dipping, or brushing on metal parts.
Rust Preventative VCI Paper: Green VCI paper and poly bags are easy to use and require very little labor, as parts are simply wrapped in VCI paper or placed in a Green VCI poly bag and remain corrosion-free for years.
R.P. Oils: Rust Preventative oils pollute groundwater, lakes, and streams.
Rust Preventative VCI Paper: VCI paper and VCI bags are clean, dry, and safe for the environment.
R.P. Oils: To effectively dispose of storage containers and R.P. oil soaked items can be very costly.
Rust Preventative VCI Paper: Rust Preventative VCI paper is completely 100% recyclable, and VCI poly bags can be reused and/or recycled.
R.I. Oils: These oils can take a toll on employee health (they’re known to contain carcinogens), VOC’s, and cause slip and fall accidents. Also, Rust Preventative Oils are flammable and dangerous to store in your plant.
Rust Preventative Paper: VCI Bags and VCI paper have no harmful VOCs. The packaging is effective in that rust preventive paper bags are pre-coated with rust inhibiting chemicals, which migrate off the paper onto the metal surface. These molecules cover the entire metal surface and prevent moisture and air from corroding and rusting parts. No mess, no danger to employees.
Rust preventative paper and VCI paper prevent corrosion that can lead to waste, and part failure. Corrosion is responsible for damage to automobile electronic parts, computer parts, mobile phones and more. During production, storage, or shipping, corrosion protection is equally important. Learn more about the many advantages of VCI bags, VCI paper, and rust preventative paper and packaging.
Published February 17, 2010Today’s tip will be a very short, but very important one. In nearly 20 years of solving corrosion and rust issues for metal parts manufacturers all over the country, one of the most basic, yet least observed rules of handling metal parts is to ALWAYS wear gloves when handling metal parts. I can recount to you dozens and dozens of times when I have been called in to discover the cause of corrosion and rust, only to find this most basic rule ignored. I have literally seen rust in the shape of fingerprints on metal parts! Acids, moisture and oils in human hands can cause and accelerate corrosion on metal parts. ALWAYS wear a pair of cotton gloves when touching, inspecting, handling, and packaging metal parts. Metal parts should be packaged in VCI paper or placed in a VCI bag as quickly as possible. This includes while the parts are in-process and while they are waiting in the que for secondary operations. Of particular importance is to have the metal parts packaged in VCI paper or in VCI bags during storage, and in shipment to your customers. Some manufacturers use VCI packaging only during the summer months, but this is a big mistake, as you can never tell when those parts will be shipped or used by your customer. In other words, even if you are packaging parts in January with low humidity, the parts may sit on your shelf or your customer’s shelf until they are used in July! Protect your parts year-round with VCI packaging form Green Packaging, Inc. http://www.Green-VCI.com
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