Stemming The Flood: Manuf. reduces coolant cleanup with Unist

Messes surrounding the use of flood coolant for metal cutting can be frustrating to manage. Aside from putting down a floor drying agent to absorb the coolant, changing pairs of gloves and wiping off cut material, there’s the chore of lugging around jugs to top off coolant reservoirs. Switching to a mist-based lubrication system not only eliminates those shop headaches but also prolongs blade life and saves manufacturers money. Therma-Tron-X Inc., Sturgeon Bay,Wis., switched each of its four band saws and one cold saw to the Saw Blade Lube System, a minimum quantity lubrication solution from Unist Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Improving Tool Life with Minimum Quantity Lubrication

If you knew of a way that you could significantly improve tool life, decrease the wear and tear on your machine, clean up your plant, and “go green” all at the same time, would you do it? Do you think your competition might? Doug Watts, Chief Technical Officer of MAG Americas, asked this question. Actually, in a recent piece for AMT News, he states it more bluntly: he asks if, in the long term, American manufacturers can really afford to not move to Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL) . . .

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Less lubricant results in better sawing?

A positive-displacement pump system has proven to be an effective method
for delivering fluid to the nozzles in a precise and repeatable manner.

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Effect of Nano-Enhanced Lubricant in Minimum Quantity Lubrication Balling Milling

Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) has been used as an alternative solution for flood cooling as well as dry machining. However, the benefit of MQL is only realized in mild machining conditions as the . . .

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Ecoresponsible Lubricant Application Pays Off

The use of fluids and lubricants to reduce friction and to cool and protect machines and components during cutting and forming presents significant challenges for manufacturers. Environmental concerns have added
new chapters to the situation. In the current social and political setting, a
great deal of emphasis is placed on environmental stewardship.

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The Many Ways Ford Benefits from MQL

Clean machining using minimum quantity lubrication has allowed transmission plant to become fundamentally more efficient and effective manufacturing six-speed automatic transmissions.

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MQL opens doors for environmentally responsible metal cutting

While much is being done in the metalworking industry to formulate, contain, handle and dispose of cutting fluids in an environmentally responsible manner, large scale reduction in fluid usage is also being accomplished through
minimum quantity lubrication (MQL), also known as Near Dry Machining (NDM).

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MQL: Lean and Green

The benefits of minimum quantity lubrication which is suitable for many
types of machine tools are numerous.

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