Description

A surface active pickling activator having an inhibiting effect in hydrochloric acid and other pickling acids such as sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid at the same time. Nearly completely inhibits the acid attacks on the steel, avoids excessive picklings and reduces the acid consumption the result of which is an improvement of the quality and savings of costs.

Benefits

• Can be used in cold and hot pickling baths.
• Is quickly and homogeneously distributed in pickling solutions.
• The liquid form allows an easy and exact dosing.
• Reduces the surface tension whereby the incubation time until the beginning of the pickling process is shortened.
• At the same time the diffusion process between acid and scale resp. metal surface is favoured which accelerates the pickling process and on the whole the pickling time will be reduced.
• Oil and grease films occasionally occurring on the parts to be pickled will be spontaneously wetted and detached from the surface.
• Produces clear and clean surfaces and after good rinsing it does not impair the subsequent treatments (such as e.g. hot metallization and phosphatation).
• Develops a thin foam cover on the bath surface preventing the escape of acid vapour. Consequently the pickling atmosphere is improved.
• At baths heated up this thin foam cover has a heat insulating effect combined with a lower consumption of steam.