Simple treatment reduces spent machine coolant
Most stamping and machining operations generate a tremendous amount of emulsified oil wastewater, usually in the form of spent machine coolant. Many operations don’t know exactly what to do with this costly outgrowth of their business.
Recently, A Brite Company stepped in to help one of its long-time surface finishing clients in North Texas. The Ennis, Texas-based customer manufactures high-quality ferrules and eyelets as well as other deep draw stampings.
“They were hauling off large quantities of spent machine coolant from their stamping operation,” said Pat Vonasek, A Brite’s technical business director who has known the client for over 20 years. “We were able to implement a simple precipitation waste treatment process to reduce the amount of waste being generated.”
The customized solution is based on A Brite’s WBC product line. The treatment precipitates and encapsulates the oils from the spent coolant then captures it as a non-hazardous sludge.
“We were able to reduce the quantity and cost of our haul-off by half,” the customer company’s operations manager said. “A Brite helped us design the system and then provided us the chemicals to use with it. We’ve been running this system for three months and the savings are significant.”
