2.6. Is it also possible to process wood with MQL?

Traditional, pure wood processing: Wood is mostly processed in dry state, since the lifetimes are also good without lubrication and the moisture would make the chips heavy and sticky, which in turn would make the suction difficult. In addition, the moisture would penetrate into the wooden work piece and soak it. All these are arguments against a wet processing. The layer applied by MQL would be very small so that it does mean any impairment but it also does not bring any great advantage.

Modern wood working: Wood workers (carpenters, furniture industry) are not “pure” wood workers any more for quite some time today. Machine requirements for coatings of chipboards, aluminium and plastic as deco or reinforcing materials and other composite materials are different than for pure wood.  Therefore modern wood working machines must be also appropriate for this purpose. – dry is not possible anymore. Cooling by refrigeration is excluded completely; only MQL remains as solution.