“FREEZE your water-damaged documents and artifacts and give us a call,” says Oliver Threlfall, CEO of Steamatic, Australia’s cleaning and restoration specialists.

Steamatic is set to revolutionize the restoration industry with their new, expanded freeze-drying technology that can return water-damaged documents and artifacts to clients in pre-loss condition.

Steamatic will collect water-damaged goods and freeze them immediately. Once the water is frozen the damage has stopped!

“Minus 21 degrees Celsius is the ideal temperature to store the frozen documents,” said Oliver “You can store them indefinitely at minus 21 without causing further damage – which gives our clients time to decide what to do next.”

Once clients have decided what needs to be saved, Steamatic takes those items from cold storage and places them in their state-of-the-art vacuum freeze-drying chamber known as “Rosie”.

Oliver explains Rosie’s eight-day, fully automated freeze-drying process: “The chamber heats up and the ice within the paper tries to melt but can’t because of the vacuum, so instead it is sublimated into a gas, which reforms as ice on condensing coils at the bottom of the chamber, leaving the papers dry. They never get wet again during the process.”

Steamatic guarantees this revolutionary freeze-drying process will cause no further damage to water-damaged documents, unlike other methods such as sun or heat drying, which results in paper expansion, fibres melding together, mould or unstable dyes running or fading.

“Steamatic’s new freeze-drying technology means that books, medical records, photographs and other vital documents can be returned to you in pre-loss condition,” said Oliver, “We’ve even dried historic goods found in a muddy creek bed, without compromising the quality of these precious artifacts.”

For further information call 1300 STEAMATIC or check website www.steamaticfreezedrying.com.au