Shop Operations: ENHANCING WORKER HEALTH, SAFETY

Conventional metalworking fluids are effective at providing cooling and lubrication during machining, but they have critics. One is Fusion Coolant Systems Inc., which offers products for supercritical CO2 (scCO2) as an alternative to those fluids. Traditional metalworking fluids have had a place in this market for a long time at the expense of health and safety that goes along with the workers, said Craig Happel, vice president of sales for the Canton, Michigan-based company.