Healthscreen’s New Clinic – The Pines Hospital, Manchester
This pristine, almost palatial hospital is easily found just outside the city centre in the luscious green of South Manchester and sits conveniently close to the airport and with excellent access to the nearby motorway and rail links. The Pines boasts incredible facilities within, and benefits from two state-of-the-art theatres; one fitted with lamina flow […]
Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) Monitoring – The Need to Knows
What is MEK? Methyl Ethyl Ketone, otherwise known as MIBK or butanone is a colourless liquid with an acetone-like odour. It is mostly used in the application of protective coatings and adhesives, reflecting its fine characteristics as a solvent. Other uses include pesticide application, or in factories that produce paint, rubber and machinery. Whilst MEK […]
Perchloroethylene Monitoring
What is Perchloroethylene? Also known as tetrachloroethylene, tetrachloroethene, perc/PERC and PCE, perchloroethylene is a chlorocarbon that takes the form of a colourless, sweet-smelling liquid. Celebrated self-taught English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday first managed to synthesize it in 1821 by the thermal decomposition of hexachloroethane. What is it used for? Since that initial breakthrough, PCE […]