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What are the advantages of cleaning and disinfection with foam?

Written by Jasper Verhoeven | Latest update: 07-02-2020

When using liquid cleaning or disinfection methods, the efficacy of the product always depends on the interaction
between the application time and concentration. Even though a grower can influence the concentration, this is not always
the case with the application time. This depends on application techniques and climate conditions. With cleaning foam as
a cleaning or disinfection method you can also influence the application time. In this article our specialist explains the
advantages of a foam cleaner and disinfectant.

Advantages of a foam cleaner

Growers are more and more using foam based cleaning and disinfection products. Using a foam cleaner has more
advantages compared to liquid disinfection products:

Cleaning foam lengthens the application time and with that the efficacy of the treatments, as foam has more
adhesiveness. This adhesiveness prevents fast washing away, which makes foam more suitable for disinfecting or
vertical surfaces such as greenhouse walls. 
The creeping capacity of foam also allows difficult to reach surfaces or cornes to be treated. 
Cleaning foam is a safer choice, because less aerosol is formed by using foam.

Different products for different applications

Each form of contamination requires a different product for cleaning and/or disinfection:

To spray the cleaning foam use the Menno foam gun.

To clean plant sap and organic soiling use Menno Hortisept Clean Plus. 
To combat algae and bacteria use Menno ter Forte. 
For broad spectrum disinfection of all plant pathogenic bacteria, fungi, viruses and viroids use Menno Florades.

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Supplies for cleaning and disinfection foam applications

To apply a foam cleaner or disinfectant, you can use several products: a Menno disinfection sprayer, a foam gun or a V1K
mobile cleaning unit. The best choice of product depends on (the size of) the surface to be treated. 

Cleaning and disinfection foam techniques

For the best quality cleaning and disinfection foam it is necessary that a number of requirements are met. The first step is
to check and if necessary clean the tank. There should be no residual liquid from other products in the tank, as these can
have an effect on the pH value. The water quality also influences the cleaning foam. Use rainwater or osmosis water. If
this is not available, and other water (for example tap water) is used, check the pH value beforehand. This value should
be ±pH 6, this can be achieved by acidifying (e.g. tap water) to a slightly more neutral pH. This saves on your product
consumption. The lower the EC (salt content) the better the foam cleaner. For the foam gun, a pump pressure of 30-45 bar
is recommended. No foaming agent needs to be added, the products Menno Ter Forte, Hortiseptclean PLUS, Menno
Florades is by itself foaming at a sufficiently high concentration. For Mennno Florades, the activity is guaranteed at a pH
of 3.5 - 4. If the pH is increased by contamination, you can easily add extra Menno Florades until a new pH value of 3.5-4
is reached.

Foam cleaner supplies

Menno Menno Menno Menno

Hortisept florades 10 Foam disinfection
clean PLUS ltr application foam gun
10 ltr 18121 sprayer 18122
18121 0500 18121 0000
0341 0398

More information regarding cleaning and disinfecting with foam

You can use various devices to use a foam cleaner as a cleaning and disinfecting product. Do you have questions, need
for advice? Contact our disinfection specialist Jasper Verhoeven, or fill in the form below. We'll respond within 24 hours
on working days.

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About Jasper Verhoeven

Jasper Verhoeven, product specialist disinfection, is the first point of contact for
growers
when it comes to hygiene. "Customised advice has become increasingly
more important, due
to the risen demand for hygiene measures in horticulture and
the associated challenges.
Every time, I see it as a challenge to help a grower
to create the ultimate situation at his
enterprise."

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