With over two decades of experience in manufacturing high quality cutting tools, the company supplied to an impressive list of customers across industry segments. The list included top brands in automotive, aerospace, medical instrument manufacturers as well as die casting and machine tool industries. Equipped with advanced machining centers and well-trained personnel, the company always maintained highest levels of satisfaction with its customers.

The company’s portfolio included standard long end mills, uneven helix mills, taper end mills, drills, routers, reamers, turning and special tools.

Additionally, excessive mist generated from the coolant during the grinding process spoiled the work environment for operators. Based on a reference, the BECHEM team contacted the coordinates at the Company’s Production Dept. The BECHEM team after understanding the machining process and the pain points of wheel loading and mist formation during the grinding process recommended a trial with Berugrind 7 HC.

Production set-up: To meet Customer requirements and ensure a steady supply, the company had installed state of the art machines that included a sizeable number of ‘multi axis CNC tool and cutter grinding’ machines. As a regular machining practice, resin bond diamond wheel was used for grinding process.

An issue that Machine operators faced repetitively was of wheel loading affecting job finish. Grinding Tungsten-Carbide generated a lot of dust that continued to stick to the grinding wheel leading to the occurrence of wheel loading. The operators ensured extra caution during the process by limiting cutting speed.

Impressed with the consistent performance of Berugrind 7 HC in grinding, the Production team did a complete changeover for complete machining process of carbide tools.

A global supplier of electromechanical systems for hydro-power plants found itself in a spot of bother when performance of the coolant and MQL system did not meet its expectation in its newly installed machining centre for large jobs.

With a revised MQL system in place, BECHEM’s Beruform STO 110 was tried out against the earlier recommended coolant. Beruform STO 110 outperformed the recommended coolant in every performance parameter measured with increase in tool life and savings in coolant consumption.

The Global company, a market leader in manufacturing electromechanical systems for hydro-power plants had expanded its existing production line with new ‘5 axis CNC machining centre’ in its plant in India. The new line with special machining centre from Europe’s leading machine tool manufacturer was installed with the objective of machining typical hydro plant components such as turbine runners, valves, penstock and gates.

The specially designed machining centre provided a boost to the Customer’s production capability  and versatility in machining large jobs. The production team however experienced inconsistencies in performance of the MQL system and coolant which led to decrease in tool life. The maintenance and service teams were unable to identify the root cause of the performance inconsistencies and decided to replace the MQL system as well as the coolant.

With a new MQL system installed, BECHEM was asked to provide its coolant recommendation for the special machining centre against the approved coolant.

The BECHEM team studied the machining process, MQL system in place and recommended Beruform STO 110. Free of chlorine, sulphur and heavy metal containing additives, the team was confident that the unique formulation of STO 110 would provide the necessary lubrication and cooling of work piece and cutting tool area thereby increasing tool life.

A trial was taken with 5 Kg sample of Beruform STO 110 and Product X (approved product) with the new MQL system in place.