Camfil Farr Air Pollution Control, a leading worldwide producer of industrial dust and fume collectors, will host a free educational webinar titled: "The New EPA National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), Rule 6X: Are You Compliant?" The webinar will take place on Thursday, February 16th from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Central Standard Time (CST).

We caught this really great response by Steve Markus to an End User's question on another forum, so we had to link it for you. The End User's question was related to the safety and legality of using amines and metal nitrates in a vibratory finishing compound. The answer is excellent in the way Mr. Markus breaks down the advice End Users are receiving from some suppliers regarding the difference between mass finishing compounds and metalworking fluids.

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When metalworking fluid suppliers discuss “EP metalworking systems”, or extreme pressure additive containing systems, the type and formulation basis for these systems can be as wide and varied as the applications that they are found in.

Who's Next? Who should be the next combatants for Death Match Testing? We are hearing we should find the King of the Q's and set Quaker vs Qualichem. Maybe Master Chemical or Hangsterfer v. "any place, any time" ever-confident Blaser. Or maybe we put heated competitors Chemtool and Monroe together in the ring. Give us your suggestion so we can seperate the Suds from the Duds in Death Match II. A $200 cash prize goes to the first person to suggest the match-up we select. Keep it fair people.

The worldwide consolidation of metalworking fluid suppliers continues, as reported in Aerospace Manufacturing and Design. Wallover Oil Company, of Strongsville, Ohio, has acquired Commonwealth Oil of Harrow, Ontario, Canada. According to the company website, Wallover Oil was chartered in 1863, making it one of the oldest independent manufacturers of lubricants in the United States today .

Wow.  Look at that cool logo.  Maybe we should give an annual award to the company with the coolest logo.  More importantly, volatile organic compound (VOC) restrictions being put in place by California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) are sending the metalworking industry scrambling to get compliant by the January 1, 2012 implementation date. Houghton International Inc.

The 2012 Society of Manufacturing Engineers Annual Conference will be held in Cleveland, OH from June 3 through the 5th.  If you are a member of SME, register before January 6, 2012 and get more than half off the registration fee.

Austech is Australia’s premier advanced precision manufacturing and machine tool exhibition and is the only show specifically targeted at the metalworking, machine tool and ancillary market held in Australia annually. Plan now to attend the event, which will be held May 8 - 12, 2012 at the Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park.

Roberts Automatic Products in Chanhassen, MN is our "Subscriber of the Month" for December.