Case Studies

Poor coolant stability resulted in a costly and time-consuming regime of biocide additions to the majority of the machine sumps at their manufacturing site. Without the biocide additions, the coolant would not meet regulatory health, safety and environmental requirements or internal health and safety standards. The components manufacturer set a coolant life expectation of 18 months as part of the planned maintenance clean-out process, but the biocide was necessary to reach that target.

Additionally, machine operators did not like the existing coolant; it emitted a bad odour.

To deal with this challenge, the components manufacturer actively sought out a product to test in its machines to eliminate the need for additives and improve operator acceptance. That product was TRIM™ MicroSol™ 590XT, an environmentally-friendly, semisynthetic, microemulsion metalworking fluid.

A six-month test run of TRIM MicroSol 590XT proved that no biocide additions were needed to meet the company’s coolant life expectancy standards. Additionally, using TRIM MicroSol 590XT reduced consumption. The top-up strength for its former coolant was 2% and with TRIM MicroSol 590XT, it was lowered to 1%.

Machine operators also accepted the new coolant enthusiastically. They began asking for TRIM MicroSol 590XT to be put in all of their machines.

The company is currently in a planned conversion process with the possibility of the remaining machines moving to TRIM MicroSol 590XT. They’re also looking at opportunities to supply TRIM products to the remaining companies under their company umbrella.