CUTTING OILS & COOLANTS
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Fluid evolution
Q8Oils is one of the leading The laboratory at Q8Oils in experienced team of chemists,
companies in the lubricant Leeds is the Industrial Centre of Q8Oils claims it is leading the
technology sector with a Excellence for soluble way in metalworking fluid
comprehensive development metalworking fluids throughout technology. Tribology equipment
laboratory and testing the Kuwait Petroleum such as Reichert, Falex,
facilities to ensure high International Lubricants Coefficient of Friction and on-site
quality products and organisation. drilling and milling machines
services to its extensive With world class scientific ensure that the products are
customer base. equipment and a highly rigorously tested in the
laboratory and in field trials
before being branded and
introduced to the market.
The Customer Service
department within the
development laboratory has
analytical equipment such as
Fourier transform infrafed
spectroscopy, ultra violet
absorption and X-ray
fluorescence that are essential
key tools to evaluate and
increase performance for all
products. Q8Oils also owns a
major research facility in Europe
which develops and expands the
company’s range of lubricants
on an ongoing basis.
As Kevin Duncan, Q8Oils’ demands of the industry,” he tested in the market and in the correct use of lubricants,
technical and operations says. “Q8Oils works to guarantees high performance as well as providing advice on
manager affirms, the Q8 Baroni continuously develop and levels, offering the user a host key environmental, health,
X-Range of cutting and grinding enhance all our formulations to of benefits such as cleanliness, safety and quality
fluids has been specifically provide optimum performance to low foaming characteristics as considerations. Q-Care also
engineered to meet the the user and enhance well as extended coolant and offers a dedicated business to
demands of modern productivity. The consistency of tool life. business website featuring
component manufacturers and our products worldwide enables In addition, Q8Oils is able to concise information on
the vast range of materials all our customers to have provide strong technical and lubricants management.
machined. complete confidence.” onsite support in the form of Q-
“Our metalworking fluids The Q8 Baroni X Range has Care. This service enables
> Q8OILS
evolve with the operational been formulated, trialled and managers to have staff trained www.q8.com
Keep it central
With virtually all machine
shops scrutinising costs in
the present economic
climate, it has never been
more important to focus on
productivity, cost efficiency
and the environment.
The very nature of cutting
metal on machine tools leads to
the ingress of contaminants into
the cutting fluid. Metal fines,
tramp oil, grease and dirt all
contribute towards the growth of
unwanted micro organisms such
as bacteria, moulds and yeasts
and this turn contributes to poor
coolant life, workpiece corrosion
and potential effects on operator
health. required and therefore only a mode where the system works
Coolant maintenance has to single refractometer check. 99% at a reduced rate on a closed
be carried out on a weekly basis of tramp oil and metal fines loop system to preserve the
and in large companies with down to 35µm are automatically coolant and avoid stagnation.
third party maintenance this can removed. The system does not An additional significant
be a costly exercise with require replaceable cartridges or benefit of a centralised system is
perhaps three contractors on- operator intervention and the that coolant maintenance is
site on a full time basis. topping up process is virtually eliminated. The
According to Helensburgh, automatic. Finer degrees of Accustrip system is constructed
Scotland-based MacInnes filtration are also available. almost entirely of stainless steel
Tooling, Accustrip coolant MacInnes claims that coolant and in operation occupies a
filtration systems can eliminate consumption can be reduced by small footprint.
these problems and reduce up to 30% and as coolant in an As well as centralised
operating costs to a minimum. Accustrip system never stands systems, Accustrip also
MacInnes cites a typical still, this makes it very difficult for manufactures smaller
example: a machine shop with unwanted micro organisms to Automatic Filtration Units
25 machine tools will survive. In turn, this means that (AFUs) for one or more
encompass individual checks on lab tests do not need to be machining centres, paper band
each machine including sump carried out as frequently – filters, high pressure pump units
maintenance, refractometer perhaps once a month or longer and tramp oil separation
checks, bacteria checks and and coolant life is significantly systems.
tramp oil removal. It also means extended with some customers
that all 25 machines will require reporting up to five years before
topping up at regular intervals. changing is necessary.
Compared to an Accustrip Even during a shutdown
> MACINNES
centralised system: a single, period the system never stops – TOOLING
central sump is all that is it is simply put into a ‘monitoring’ www.macinnes.co.uk
22 March 2010 • Production Engineering Solutions
www.pesmag.co.uk
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