If you're still using carbon steel maintenance tools in sterile processing or other critical environment facilities, you're overlooking three critical factors: Compliance, Cost, and Cleanliness.

Your primary focus is maintaining peak sterility in your production facility. When routine maintenance is required on sterile or critical processing equipment, you run a very serious risk of  ferrous contamination to sterile environments with the use of general industrial carbon steel hand tools. Carbon steel tools are not designed for sterilization. Their chrome plating commonly flakes, threatening production safety by introducing foreign particulate and raw ferrous surfaces.

Instead of frequently repurchasing deteriorating, sub-standard tools every few years, it is more cost-efficient for your company to monitor their purchase location, price, and long-term durability with stainless steel tools that would not need replacement or introduce risk. Specialized sterile and critical processing industries require maintenance tools designed to meet the exact compliance standards that must be upheld for every other step in the production process. Surprisingly often, this effective solution is overlooked.

Replacing carbon steel maintenance tools with stainless steel hand tools offers significant cost savings and reduces the risk of process contamination.

Compare the benefits of stainless steel hand tools over carbon steel tools:

Steritool is the world leader in stainless steel hand tool technology. We can provide the tools you need to maintain critical standards and save you money in the long term.