Chip & Coolant Management

What You Need to Know About Cleaning, Filtering, and Maintaining Machine Tool Coolant

Support your company’s competitive advantage with cost-effective, proven filtration solutions. Hennig’s experienced staff provide trusted technical solutions by teaming with our customers to create reliable, profitable results.

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Understanding filtration options is crucial for selecting the right solution for your specific application. Efficient filtration, suited to particular customer requirements, reduces overall cost and contributes to increased uptime.

Total cost/price

Don’t overlook the cost of poor filtration and other issues that cause downtime.

Efficiency Killers

Problems that shut down or slow machines and shrink efficiency— such as bacteria issues in coolant.

Range of Options

Know your filtration options before determining whether you need a simple mesh filter box or a more complex system.

Projected Future Requirements

Design choices early in the selection process can provide for future expansion.

Aftermarket support

Hennig provides skilled engineering, installation/system startup services, and troubleshooting on all their systems.

Replacement Parts & Service

Our service centers supply needed parts for our systems, with global capabilities for meeting your needs.


Filtration Options

Cartridge filtration

This efficient alternative to conventional high-pressure and reverse-flow filters removes ingressed contamination before it flows downward to sensitive components. These simple, modular filters block pump-generated debris before it gets to servo or proportional valves. A high-pressure filter, it provides durability and consistently high performance.

What You Need to Know About Cleaning, Filtering, and Maintaining Machine Tool Coolant

Cyclonic filtration

This waste-free coolant filtration system removes particulates through centrifugal force. It eliminates the need for disposable paper or cartridge filters. Bubbles and foam are not produced. Contaminants, concentrated in the sludge pot, cannot return to the coolant tank once they are removed 

What You Need to Know About Cleaning, Filtering, and Maintaining Machine Tool Coolant

Bag filtration

Relatively inexpensive and readily incorporated in machine tool applications, bag filters provide solutions for removing swarf, small chips, and various particulates. Unfiltered liquid enters the housing above the bag and passes down through it. Solids contained in the bag are easily removed when the unit is serviced. Fluid bypass is prevented because the outside diameter of the filter bag seals radially against the housing inside diameter. A single cover gasket seals the opening. Covers can be installed and removed without tools.

What You Need to Know About Cleaning, Filtering, and Maintaining Machine Tool Coolant

Chip Disc Filtration (CDF)

Hennig’s patented CDF filtration systems, compared to many competitors’ systems, offer the advantage that they can be used with a scraper belt or a hinged belt to remove fine, stringy, bushy and broken chips. Drum systems, by comparison, require two conveyors (a hinged belt conveyor and a scraper belt) when there are stringy chips. This dual installation increases maintenance cost and consumes added floor space.

What You Need to Know About Cleaning, Filtering, and Maintaining Machine Tool Coolant

Drum filtration

A drum rotates in a tub of liquid to be filtered. This filtration type prevents clogs in systems with slurries and liquids with a high solid content.

What You Need to Know About Cleaning, Filtering, and Maintaining Machine Tool Coolant

Magnetic filtration

This method is used to remove iron particles. A large magnet attracts and filters these particles from the system. It is suited to environments with ferrous, para-magnetic, and grinding medium issues.

(shown here in combination with a CDF filter)

Coolant skimmers: This mechanical system separates oil or particulates floating on the surface of a liquid.

What You Need to Know About Cleaning, Filtering, and Maintaining Machine Tool Coolant

Paper filtration

These systems cleanse various types of liquids (water, emulsions, aqueous solutions) of polluting solid particles. They can be used in machine tool markets as well as chemistry, food, painting, petrochemistry, glass, and industrial washing machine applications. Filtration models are possible for oil.

What You Need to Know About Cleaning, Filtering, and Maintaining Machine Tool Coolant

For additional information about filtration options, contact us.

Connect with Hennig for the full support you need when you select the appropriate filtration system for your shop. We provide answers to your questions, whether you need a complete filtration system for your entire company or a less-complex system.