Aerosols are redefining industrial maintenance and repair practices

Aerosols are revolutionising industrial maintenance with their precision, portability and eco-friendly formulations, offering efficient, safe, and sustainable solutions for cleaning, lubrication, testing, and preventive maintenance across industries.

- By Sanjay Malhotra, Founder and Managing Director, Aerol Group

Aerosols are becoming increasingly important in the industrial ecosystem. Once seen as a luxury, cost-inefficient alternative, it's now at the heart of maintenance, service and repair functions, including special operations such as inspection and testing. As an indispensable maintenance aid, aerosols offer outstanding performance and ease of use. They are now commonly seen and used across all types of industries and workshops, including homes, offices and institutions.

Typical advantages of aerosols

• Factory sealed package- no scope of adulteration or contamination of contents
• Ready to use- no dilution or mixing required
• Pressurised contents enable active contents to reach 'difficult to reach' areas
• Eliminates the use of spray guns, compressed air and other dispensing devices
• Eliminates the need to dismantle equipment, components for cleaning or lubrication
• Handy, compact- easy to handle, carry and use
• Portable- Carry up to the place-of-use
• Spill-proof, tamper-proof packaging
• Controlled dispensing- prevents excessive use, overflow and dripping
• Uniform application- forms a smooth film of actives on the substrate
• Recyclable packaging

importance in industrial applications

Aerosols have found significant use in cleaning, lubrication, coating, testing and inspection applications in factories, workshops and garages. Typical applications are as a:

• Cleaner Sprays for electrical switches, contacts, circuit boards and components. Also used for cleaning and degreasing soiled machine components, chains, automobile brakes, and other components.
• Lubricant sprays for chains, conveyors, dies, moulds, moving parts of machines and automobiles, including trains and airplanes, etc.