Steel Industry & Metalworking: controlling cutting and machining fluids quality, a key for performance and safety

In machining and metalworking environments, cutting fluids play an essential role: they provide lubrication, cooling, and tool protection, while ensuring safe working conditions for operators.

But field constraints, high temperatures, intensive cycles, and progressive contamination, can quickly degrade the quality of the fluid.

Why regularly monitor the condition of your cutting fluids?

• To ensure consistent machining quality
• To maintain an optimal proportion of additives, neither too much nor too little
• To verify that the fluid is not overly contaminated (water, bacteria...), so it can be replaced at the right time
• To protect operators health by avoiding the use of degraded or unbalanced fluids
• To reduce premature tool wear and minimize unplanned downtime

Thanks to the GESERCO’s MFTest™ line of portable kits jointly developed with CETIM, the French technical center for mechanical industries, it becomes easy to check all key parameters of cutting fluids: concentration, alkaline reserve, pH, contamination, corrosion, and the presence of bacteria or foreign oils.

Regular monitoring ensures a stable process, longer fluid life, and a safer working environment.

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