Cylinder heads, pistons and connecting rods loaded on the tray of an UltraTecno ACM ultrasonic cleaning machine
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UltraTecno · represented in Australia by Misonics

Spanish-built heavy-duty ultrasonic cleaners, supplied and serviced in Australia

UltraTecno have been building industrial ultrasonic cleaning machines in Valencia for over fifty years. We bring in the ACM range: nine sizes from 405 to 5,881 litres, all running at 28 kHz, all fitted with a pneumatic platform lift that agitates the load while it cleans.

Every machine is quoted, delivered, commissioned and serviced by Misonics.

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28 kHzFrequency
405 – 5,881 LNine tank sizes
3 – 15 kWUltrasonic power
The platform lift

We only bring in the machines with the lift

UltraTecno build the same tank in two versions. The ACM has a pneumatic platform lift. The ICM does not. We stock the ACM only, and this is why.

UltraTecno ACM-750N ultrasonic cleaning machine with the insulated lid open and a cylinder block standing on the platform lift
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Parts go on at bench height

The platform rises to the rim of the tank. Parts are set down on it, the lid closes, the platform lowers. Nobody reaches into a bath at 85 °C, and nobody lifts a cylinder head over a tank wall. On a machine that cycles all day this matters more than the datasheet suggests.

The lift carries 250 kg on the smallest machine and 1,800 kg on the largest.

UltraTecno ACM machine with side-mounted filtration housings and gauges
Agitation

The load moves while the sonics run

The platform travels up and down through the cycle. That movement stops soil settling back onto the part and pushes fresh fluid through blind holes, water jackets and cores. UltraTecno measure the improvement on complex parts at around 50 per cent.

Park the platform at the bottom and run without agitation and static capacity is roughly double the lift rating.

Where the lift earns nothing: open castings, plate, frames and single heavy items that drain freely. If that is all you clean, say so in the enquiry. There is a cheaper machine and we will tell you about it rather than sell you a lift you will never use.

The range

Nine sizes, 405 to 5,881 litres

All ACM. All 28 kHz. All with the platform lift.

Six UltraTecno ACM ultrasonic cleaning machines of increasing size, each with its platform lift column

Part of the ACM range. The column at the back of each machine is the platform lift.

ModelMain tankUltrasonicHeatingTank internal L×W×DOn the liftStatic
ACM-350N405 L3 kW12 kW1000 × 650 × 623250 kg470 kg
ACM-500N608 L4 kW12 kW1200 × 672 × 729350 kg700 kg
ACM-750N840 L5 kW12 kW1400 × 800 × 750500 kg1,000 kg
ACM-1000N1,224 L7 kW15 kW1600 × 900 × 850800 kg1,600 kg
ACM-2000N2,150 L9 kW24 kW1810 × 1100 × 10801,000 kg2,000 kg
ACM-3000NW3,298 L10 kW30 kW1700 × 1590 × 12201,000 kg2,000 kg
ACM-3000N3,334 L12 kW30 kW2104 × 1300 × 11971,000 kg2,000 kg
ACM-4500N5,315 L15 kW42 kW2400 × 1590 × 13701,800 kg3,600 kg
ACM-5500N5,881 L15 kW45 kW2700 × 1590 × 13701,800 kg5,000 kg

Manufacturer figures, September 2024 specification sheet. Volume is the main tank. Each machine also carries an auxiliary tank of 54 to 878 litres for oil separation. Ultrasonic power comes in 1 kW transducer sets, so a 5 kW machine has five plates of sixteen transducers. Supply is 400 V 50/60 Hz, three phase and neutral. Figures are confirmed at quotation. The ACM-3000NW is a wide, short version of the ACM-3000N for bulky parts that will not fit a long narrow tank.

Under 400 litres we would normally quote one of our own machines instead. The MSX and UltraKleen Pro ranges cover that size, they are built and serviced here, and the spares are on a shelf in Melbourne. Ask for both prices and we will give you both.

What goes in them

Engine parts, moulds, exchangers, filters

A cylinder block standing in an UltraTecno ultrasonic bath with steam rising off it

A cylinder block in the bath at working temperature. Photograph: UltraTecno.

Engine rebuildCylinder heads and blocks, pistons, con-rods, sumps, turbo housings. Automotive, truck, marine, rail and power generation.
Heat exchangers and filtersPlate packs, tube bundles, oil coolers, DPFs (diesel particulate filters) and cartridge filters. The soil sits inside the part where a pressure washer cannot reach it.
Moulds and toolingInjection moulds, foundry and die-cast tooling, vents and cooling channels. No abrasives and no bead blasting, so the tool keeps its dimensions.
Mining and heavy plantHydraulic components, gearbox cases, transmission and final drive parts. Usually caked in oil and dust by the time they reach the workshop.
Paint and coating removalHooks, jigs, racks, grids and fixtures. Stripped chemically with the ultrasonics doing the work, instead of a burn-off oven.
General workshopAnything the shop currently degreases by hand. On most jobs the labour is the cost, not the machine.
A steam turbine rotor on a workshop bed, the kind of component an UltraTecno machine is sized around
Size of the work

The part decides the tank

A turbine rotor, a locomotive block, a bundle off a heat exchanger. The tank is chosen around the biggest thing you need to put in it, with clearance for the tray and the lift. Give us the largest part and its weight and the model picks itself.

A cylinder head heavily coated in carbon and oil sitting in an ultrasonic cleaning tank
State of the part

How dirty is dirty

Carbon, baked oil, casting sand, paint, scale. What is on the part sets the chemistry, the temperature and the cycle time, and it is the reason we run a trial before quoting rather than after.

Why 28 kHz. A lower frequency makes larger cavitation bubbles. They hit harder and clear heavy carbon and grease off cast surfaces faster. They are also less suited to fine polished work than 40 kHz. For engine, mould and exchanger work 28 kHz is the right choice. If your parts are delicate, ask us about a 40 kHz machine instead.

Who runs them

Fifty years, and about 3,000 installations

UltraTecno have been building ultrasonic cleaning equipment since 1964 and put the number of industrial installations at more than 3,000. Among the operations they list as running their machines are Renfe and SNCF, Caterpillar, Deutz and MAN Diesel & Turbo, Ford, Valeo, TRW and Nemak, Eaton, Alcoa and Metso, BP and Statoil, and Goltens and TruMarine on the marine side.

Made in ValenciaMachines are designed and built in Spain, not assembled from imported parts. UltraTecno make the generators and the transducer plates themselves, do their own stainless welding, and build and program their own electrical panels.
ISO 9001:2015Quality system certified annually by Bureau Veritas. Every machine ships with a start-up and installation manual, an operating manual with electrical schematics and a maintenance schedule, a parts list, and a CE Certificate of Conformity.
Two-year warrantyWorldwide, on every machine. UltraTecno put expected service life at over twenty years. Spare parts are available for the whole range, and the transducer plates are flanged so they can be changed without cutting into the tank.
Supported hereMisonics quotes, imports, delivers, commissions and services the machine in Australia. You are not buying direct from Spain and you are not waiting on a European service desk when something needs attention.

Installation count, service life and customer list are UltraTecno's own published figures.

How they are built

Four things worth knowing

An UltraTecno technician TIG welding a stainless steel tank seam

Tank welding at the Massalfassar plant. Photograph: UltraTecno.

Synchronised generatorsIGBT digital generators. One control card synchronises every 1 kW power card, so the plates do not cancel each other out inside the tank. Sweep frequency runs at ±2 per cent to break up standing waves. Fifteen power levels, eight sweep modes, and a stop-go mode for degassing a fresh bath.
Oil separation, LFSBath liquid flows to an auxiliary tank where the oil separates out and a floating skimmer draws it off. Taking oil out continuously is what makes a bath last months instead of weeks. On a machine this size the chemistry is the running cost.
Noise, ARFA 28 kHz machine is loud. UltraTecno's acoustic filter, 50 mm of insulation and a sealed 30 mm lid hold it under 78 dB(A). Low enough to run in an occupied workshop without hearing protection becoming a policy question.
MaterialsSS304 tank in 3 mm plate. SS316 transducer plates, mirror polished so cavitation does not erode the face. Ceramic heaters inside stainless housings. Transducers oven-bonded at 180 °C with aeronautical adhesive and rated to 110 °C. Plates are flanged, so they can be replaced.
UltraTecno ultrasonic transducers, ceramic stacks in phosphor-bronze and silver
Transducers

Sixteen to a plate

Each 1 kW plate carries sixteen ceramic transducers in phosphor-bronze and silver, oven-cured so nothing is lost in the bond line. The plates are mounted on the side walls rather than the floor, so cleaning power does not drop off as sludge builds up in the bottom of the tank.

UltraTecno seven-inch colour touch screen control panel on the front of the machine
Controls

Seven-inch touch screen

Manual mode and three preset cycles. Programmable heating and ultrasound timers. A night eco mode that drops the bath temperature out of hours. Detergent calculator, hour counter, start counter and a live electricity consumption readout. The maintenance scheduler prompts filter and valve service at whatever interval you set.

Options

Six worth costing in at the start

Bag filtrationA 20 inch stainless housing with a recirculation pump, 10 to 100 µm. Keeps particulate out of the bath and off clean parts. Usually the first option we recommend.
Automatic water top-upSmall, frequent refills as the bath evaporates. Level and chemistry stay stable without an operator watching the tank.
Hybrid heatingPre-heats from your existing hot water circuit to 60–75 °C. Electric elements only take it the last stretch. Around 70 per cent of the heat load comes off cheaper energy.
Automatic lid and loading pedalFor a machine cycling all shift. One press raises the load, stops the ultrasonics and opens the lid.
Steam extractionPerimeter extraction paired with the automatic lid, so an 85 °C bath does not put a cloud into the workshop every time it opens.
Ethernet and SCADAOPC-UA (Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture) connection into plant monitoring, with remote diagnostics back to the factory.

Not every option is available on every model. We confirm what fits the machine when we quote.

Enquiry

Tell us what you are cleaning

Not which model you want. We will work that out. The part, the soil and the throughput decide the machine, and sometimes the answer is one we build ourselves.

UltraTecno ACM enquiry

This goes to Misonics. We quote, deliver, commission and service the machine in Australia.

An enquiry, not a commitment. Nothing here excludes rights under the Australian Consumer Law.
An UltraTecno ACM machine installed on a workshop floor with steam extraction ducting

Send a photo of the dirtiest part you have. One photograph tells us more than a page of description, and it is usually what decides between a 750N and a 3000N.

Prefer to talk? 1300 MISONICS · sales@misonics.com.au

UltraTecno is a trade mark of Ultrasonidos Lover SA, Massalfassar, Valencia, Spain, manufacturing to ISO 9001:2015 certified by Bureau Veritas. Machines are CE marked to the European Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. Misonics Pty Ltd represents the range in Australia. Product photography and specifications are the manufacturer's.