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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Lube-System Overhaul

A dramatic shift in stock-lubrication strategy for deep drawing and stamping at an MTD facility yielded improvements in press uptime and operator efficiency, and slashed lube consumption as well.

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Vegetable Oils - Good Lubricants

Today there is equipment readily available or that can be easily designed for use on almost every machine, allowing machining with vegetable lubricants to be easily integrated into existing processes.

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Appliance OEM Lovin' Lubrication

Using roller-application systems to apply a new synthetic lube eliminates die-maintenance headaches in an Electrolux pressroom, contributing to the firm’s efforts to increase overall equipment efficiency (OEE).

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Mist Coolant Slashes Coolant Costs 97%

Cutting coolant purchasing expense by 97% is just the start of cost savings experienced by a Florida-based fabricator that drills about 3,200 holes per day and punches an additional 20,000 holes per day.

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2,020 Gallons Less Stamping Fluid to Handle...What Would You Do?

It is no secret that a myriad of expenses and effort are associated with the necessary application of stamping fluids. One company in California has learned the joy of reduction in those factors . . .

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Near-Dry Machining..."no real limits"

In the latter half of October 2002 a first-of-its-kind seminar was held at a plant in Grand Rapids, MI.

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Programmable Lubrication Beats The Heat

A pair of metalformers tell how an upgrade in lubrication strategies and equipment pay off big with improved speed and part quality, and reduced lubricant consumption and the costs associated with lube delivery, application, and cleanup.

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