New Extreme Simple Green Cleaner

HUNTINGTON HARBOUR, Calif.--Sept. 16, 2004--Simple Green today introduced its new Extreme Simple Green(R) Aircraft and Precision Cleaner. The new formula offers customers unparalleled cleaning performance, anti-corrosion agents and low toxicity. Extreme Simple Green cuts through tough, built-up grease, oil, dirt, pollution, insect residue and impact soils while maintaining surface integrity and meeting various aircraft industry standards.

"We've found no other aircraft-approved product on the market that matches Extreme Simple Green's cleaning performance," stated Bruce FaBrizio, the founder and president of Sunshine Makers Inc., the makers of Extreme Simple Green. "For years Simple Green has been used for aircraft cleaning, however, the lack of meeting an aircraft cleaning spec was limiting its cleaning applications. With Extreme Simple Green, we've given our customers a solution to this problem while retaining the highly effective cleaning capabilities of the entire Simple Green line of products."

Extreme Simple Green gets its superior cleaning from a unique "triple play" cleaning formula. Two high-performance surfactants and a new generation grease lifter/cutter combine to get the soil away from the aircraft surface quickly and then keep it away so that it can be cleanly rinsed away. Extreme Simple Green's speed of grease cutting and its high capacity to hold grease, oil and soils in solution during cleaning and rinsing time are the keys to performance. This equals fast cleaning and no re-deposition. Oil does, however, break from solution, allowing treatment prior to disposal via standard oil/water separators.

Extreme Simple Green's safety upon aircraft materials and precision cleaning surfaces comes from a combination of proven anti-corrosion agents. A time-tested coupling agent allows these to work together to battle corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement. These same qualities make Extreme Simple Green safe to put through pressure washing equipment, rack wash systems, dip tanks and parts washers, without any equipment damage.

The components of Extreme Simple Green are "solvent"-free, low-toxicity compounds. This leads to an excellent worker's safety environment. In addition, all of the components are biodegradable, so Extreme Simple Green won't accumulate in the environment while rinse-waste can be handled by standard waste water treatment methods. Extreme Simple Green meets or exceeds current and reasonably anticipated VOC requirements. It also contains no Clean Air Act Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs), nor is it a RCRA hazardous waste in and of itself when disposed. Lastly, Extreme Simple Green meets Boeing D6-17487 Revision P (April, 2003): Exterior & General Cleaners.

Company Background

Sunshine Makers Inc., founded in 1975, manufactures and markets the Simple Green line of non-toxic, biodegradable cleaning products domestically and internationally. Simple Green All-Purpose Cleaner was originally developed as a safer alternative to the toxic cleaners designed to remove tannic acid, a by-product of coffee roasting, from roasting machinery. Simple Green's safety and environmental claims are backed by over $3 million worth of independent laboratory testing. Since its inception, Sunshine Makers Inc. has pledged to develop products for consumers that are safer, effective and economical.