Abstract: In a cleaning installation for removing machining residues from workpieces comprising a cleaning station having associated therewith a channel for receiving at least one workpiece to be cleaned, a workpiece transportation device for introducing workpieces to be cleaned into the channel and for removing the cleaned workpieces from the channel, and at least one blow nozzle directed into the interior of the channel and thus onto the workpieces to be cleaned for acting upon the workpieces with a jet of blow air, in order to achieve a better cleaning effect, a cleaning liquid supplying device is provided for atomizing small amounts of a cleaning liquid into the jet of blow air.