The SRS Story

SRS started from the simple idea that there had to be something better to do with used coolant than to flush it down the drain.

In 1996, a young environmental engineer was working at a compressor plant in southeast Michigan. Week after week, he authorized the disposal of thousands of gallons of used metalworking fluid.

He quickly realized that if the contaminants were removed, much of the fluid could be reused. To his frustration, there were no companies offering the industrial fluid purification service that he envisioned.

The young engineer researched the disposal situation at the local library. He found that the compressor plant he worked at was not the only plant disposing of used coolant in this way. With the help of a mentor in the centrifuge industry, he purchased a centrifuge and started modifying it for optimal coolant purification.

That young engineer was Tom Czartoski. He eventually quit his job at the compressor plant to follow his idea of "a better way" of handling used coolant. And thus it was that SRS was born.

From a small, two-man shop outside of Ann Arbor to the international, multi-location fluid purification and management experts that make up SRS today, one ideal has held constant. SRS remains committed to a better method of managing fluid purification.