Jun 23 2010
After winning the Chemical Management Services contract for a major automotive powertrain manufacturer, Quaker Chemical changed the customer's soluble oil coolant technology to a more advanced metalworking fluid, QUAKERAL® 381 SD, for the machining and grinding of 380 Aluminum alloy components.
The performance impacts were instantaneous. The quantified improvements reduced the customer's total chemical spend by over 50%, improved overall productivity, decreased downtime and improved long-term health and safety concerns.
Drawing upon years of coolant formulating knowledge and automotive industry best practices, QUAKERAL® 381 SD was uniquely designed to deliver numerous performance benefits to the customer, offering a harmonic balance between product and process. QUAKERAL® 381 SD is a high-performance, emulsifiable metalworking fluid designed for heavy-duty aluminum machining and grinding operations that require a high degree of lubricity, cleanliness, cooling and corrosion protection. Its superior coolant technology and attributes were able to address a number of issues with performance, downtime and cost. The conversion to QUAKERAL® 381 SD not only provided this customer approximately $22,000 in annual chemical cost savings, but more specifically, improved microbiological/ mycobacteria/fungal resistance, increased emulsion stability and corrosion protection, decreased waste treatment costs and manpower hours, and improved tool life in their aluminum machining process.
Source: http://www.quakerchem.com/