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Lubrizol’s metalworking lubricity additives impart enhanced lubrication properties, to metalworking fluids and other specialty lubricant formulations. Physical boundaries provided by these additives persist between metal surfaces during operations, reducing friction and wear. The function of these materials does not involve chemical reactions with metal surfaces. This product range includes complex polymeric esters, water-soluble or emulsifiable esters, and polyalkylene glycol derivatives.
The SYN-ESTER™ range of polymeric ester chemistry provides exceptional film strength to lubricant formulations. The performance features of these additives can be attributed to their high viscosity index and thermal stability, allowing for the persistence of useful lubricant films to much higher temperatures than traditional esters and fatty materials. Additionally, these products are hydrolytically stable, ashless, non-staining, low odor, and provide wetting properties that effectively deliver the lubricant to the critical metal interfaces during operations. Low iodine value varieties offer excellent oxidative stability.
Polymeric SYN-ESTER™ additives are an excellent tool for formulators seeking to avoid the common drawbacks of traditional esters and fatty materials. These products are inherently oil-soluble; however, many will easily incorporate into emulsion systems and contribute co-emulsification and corrosion inhibition properties. SYN-ESTER™ additives demonstrate synergistic effects when applied in combination with sulfur and phosphorus EP additives, and can contribute to a successful chlorine-free formulation approach without sacrificing performance.
These materials are based on unique ester and vegetable oil technologies, and deliver multi-functional performance to aqueous metalworking fluid formulations. In addition to providing strong lubricity enhancement to emulsion systems, these products also contribute co-emulsification and supplemental corrosion inhibition properties.
VEG-ESTER™ products are a range of functionalized vegetable oils that have been engineered for emulsification into aqueous systems. Application of these materials gives fluid suppliers the ability to deliver high performance renewable resource-based products in response to growing market demand.
Polyalkylene glycol derivatives are inherently water soluble, and provide lubricity enhancement to metal removal and metal forming fluids. Application of these lubricity additives allows for the production of full synthetic oil-rejecting metalworking fluids with exceptional cooling properties, low foaming tendency, and clean operation in use.