Partnering with a leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, Quaker was challenged to reduce a customer' coolant waste in their machining and grinding operations by 90% within a ten year period. [MFM]

Increased demands on the part of the metalworking industry require innovative cooling lubricant solutions, since cost-effective production of premium work pieces can only be achieved using premium cooling lubricants. It is no longer an insiders' tip in industry circles that the quality of the productivity factor of cooling lubricant is a key factor. [MFM]

This eBook is read using Acrobat Reader. It has 9,484 entries and 10,449 pages. Links connect each chemical to its derivatives and to raw materials used in its manufacture. Ashford's Dictionary of Industrial Chemicals, Third Edition, ISBN 978-0-9522674-3-0.

Non-tuberculous mycobactia have previously been implicated in the alveolitis caused by exposure to contaminated metalworking fluids. This brief paper discusses whether mycobacteria can be considered the cause.

ASTM E2169 - Standard Practice for Selecting Antimicrobial Pesticides for Use in Water-Miscible Metalworking Fluids is due for its 5-year review. Revisions to be considered include updates to Table 1 and whether recent decisions made by the US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs will be captured in the Practice.

"Manufacturing Engineering", a publication of the Society of Mechanical Engineers (SME), is now available online. The March issue, available now, is dedicated to all things aerospace.

Dimac Tooling, Mulgrave, VIC, has released the Zebra Coolant Maintenance Manual which offers machine shop operators useful information and advice on all aspects of coolant management and maintenance.

Firetrace systems are designed to quickly and reliably detect and extinguish machine fires sparked by oil-based metalworking fluids, coolants and lubricants.

Fusion Coolant Systems Inc. would seem to have nothing in common with Accuri Cytometers Inc., other than being spun off from the University of Michigan. But both companies were founded by the same associate professor at UM: Steven Skerlos, the chairman of  graduate education in mechanical engineering.

The January issue is TLT's first ever issue to focus on hydraulics.

Reprinted with permission from TLT, the official monthly magazine of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, a not-for-profit professional society headquartered in Park Ridge, Illinois.