In 2016, Eriez HydroFlow partnered with Milan, Italy-based Comat S.r.l. to bring SuperFiltration technology to North America, providing customers a long-awaited solution to remove particles down to 3-micron nominal from cutting fluid while maintaining a stable fluid temperature. Eriez reports this technology is generating strong activity and a positive response from the marketplace.

Eriez HydroFlow coolant SuperFiltration systems offer an alternative to edge-type filtration in oil applications. The most common applications involve parts surface finishing, where tolerances and roughness must be strictly controlled to protect product quality.

SuperFiltration systems are mainly connected with grinders, sharpening, lapping and honing machines. They are also now commonly applied to automatic lathe units to filter oil recovered from chips centrifugation, from the periodic emptying of the tanks and for the oil used at high pressure for the drilling process.

"With thousands of machine tools worldwide operating with our technology, these systems are superfiltering 530,000 US gallons of metalworking oil every minute for leading manufacturers around the globe," says Darrell Milton, manager-filtration systems. "We are observing an escalation in the demand for these systems and anticipate continued growth in this area."

Customers can use their PC, tablet or smartphone to remotely monitor, manage and adjust their SuperFiltration System to match a machine tool's daily working conditions.