Socomore is the European distributor for Sontara® AC, the wipers especially engineered by DuPont for the aircraft industry.

Now there’s a versatile new wipe specifically engineered to meet the toughest demands of aviation manufacturing and maintenance: Sontara® AC™ aircraft wipes from DuPont. Unlike rags and rental towels, Sontara® AC™ wipes are "The Clean Choice™"— manufactured in a patented process that delivers exceptional absorbency and low linting.

Sontara® AC™ aircraft wipes contain no metal particles and offer excellent wipe-dry that virtually eliminates streaking. And they hold tough solvents like MEK (Methylethyl Ketone) and MPK (Methylpropyl Ketone) without falling apart. Plus they’re manufactured without binders or glue that can break down and cause contamination. With new Sontara® AC™ aircraft wipes from DuPont, you’re cleared for take-off.

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• Technology Sontara® / Sontara® Fabrics
• The Aviation Industry Needs Sontara® AC™
• benefits
• features
• comparative costs
• Warner-Robins AFB (Robins, Georgia)
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• polishing bright work (chrome, high-polish aluminium, etc)
  
  
• leaves virtually no lint when wiping windshields and other flight-critical surfaces
  
  
• repairing landing gear and engines
  
  
• numerous aircraft manufacturing applications
  

• Overriding concern for improving worker productivity.
• Need for improved safety, production, and housekeeping.
• Reduction in damage to parts produced and cleaned.
• Continuing pressure to reduce cost.

• Cessna Aircraft
  DuPont has replaced serveralwipers including Rimplecloth.
• Lear Jet
  Replaced 4 wipers with DuPont - Oil dry, Kamen sponge gauze, Kaydry wipes and scrim.
• Warner-Robins AFB
  Replaced mill ends

tough and durable

low-linting
less likely to snag on metal parts and corners

solvent resistent
tackles isopropyl alcohol, MEK, and other tough solvents without falling apart

saves money

• Sold by weight (pay for box and rags)
• Many unusable pieces (denim and nylon) - discard rate high White rags cost more
• Solvents dissolve nylon
• Shirt collars, cuffs, seams, buttons, zippers found - Odd size pieces with variable weight
• Average usable wipe is high not low

Sontara® Cost :
Average cost Sontara® : 20 DM per Kg.
1 sheet 37cm x 50 cm = 14,43 g
Waste: ZERO
Cost per piece: 0.289 DM

Disposal Cost: 1Kg = 1.5 DM
1 Kg = 69 pieces
per piece = 0,22 DM
Total Cost: = 0.310 DM

Prices expressed in different units:
- in Kg
- per piece
- per m2…..
can mislead the customer!!!!!

• Laundered towels are potential health hazards: highly contaminated - aircraft fuels, solvents, adhesives, detergents, metal shavings -
• Variety of prices - what user will pay
• Laundry counts towels and charges high fee for those “lost”
• Rental laundries cited by EPA study as environmental offender - contaminate water supplies, air….

Research on laundered wipes

Analysis on:
- heavy metals
- Extrable Organic Halogen content (EOX)
- pH
- conductivity
( compared to nonwovens)

• Manufactured in an ultra-clean spunlacing process

• Rigorous production controls ensure product quality and uniformity

• Engineered to resist snagging

• Spunlacing process eliminates need for binders and glues