Forming lubricants
3 reasons to implement CSR in choosing your cold heading lubricant
Also in the cold heading industry, there is the concern to reduce environmental impact and use products responsibly while maintaining high productivity.
When looking for the most efficient lubricating solution, CONDAT’s ambition is not only to guarantee a high level of performance, it is also to provide support towards responsible performance that takes into account social and environmental issues. To achieve this, CONDAT provides solutions that allow you to increase your productivity and reduce your oil consumption all whilst respecting personnel and the environment.
1. Increase productivity
EXTRUGLISS® Dual-Purpose oils are formulated to provide both superior lubrication characteristics to your machinery and outstanding lubrication for your cold heading process. They eliminate the cross-contamination problems generally encountered during cold heading operations.
In typical cold heading operations, approx. 80% of oil consumption occurs when oil is dragged out of the machine on the surfaces of formed parts, and EXTRUGLISS® oils are specially formulated to run at lower viscosity to limit oil drag out. Compared to standard technologies, EXTRUGLISS have proven to reduce lubricant consumption of more than 30% under identical manufacturing parameters.
They are also formulated to limit soap swelling.
Many wire drawing soaps swell in suspension in the oil, negatively affecting oil performance, and requiring more frequent oil replacements. EXTRUGLISS® by Condat is specially formulated to allow drawing soaps and other contaminants to settle out of the oil, carrying with them abrasive metallic particles. So the lubricant remains clean and provides optimum performance.
2. Reduce oil consumption
The best waste is no waste. The EXTRUGLISS and EXTRUDEX ranges can help you on this theme. Using the right quantity of lubricant while maintaining high performance is a major issue at CONDAT.
The EXTRUDEX range includes extreme pressure neat cold heading oils that are formulated to supply heavy duty lubrication. Thanks to their chlorine free complete additives package active from low to high temperature, they offer outstanding lubrication for a broad range of operations. Thus, using a minimum and accurate quantity of EXTRUDEX in your process allows you to reach similar performances compared to standard cold heading oils, at lower cost. EXTRUDEX oils are stand-alone lubricants that can be used only for the die side of the process. This product range is designed to improve tool life and usage on special deformation such as aerospace alloys and exotic alloys. They also allow homogeneous coating on the parts which contribute to an optimum surface finish and no deposit on dies and punches. With very high flash points, they are safe lubricants as they reduce risk of fire thus improving security in your workshops.
3. A better working environment and less environmental impact
CONDAT presented in June 2019 EXTRUGLISS HT 268 VP, a premium cold heading oil specially formulated for extreme operations that generate excessive heat (e.g. stainless steel, alloy steel with high elastic limit). This product is able to solve BaP emissions problems, even if no regulation was emitted yet for BaP generation in cold heading operations - Condat is ahead of times! EXTRUGLISS HT 268 VP contains fewer residual compounds that may degrade to PAH.
Less volatile, EXTRUGLISS HT 268 VP limits also oil evaporation and mist generation, thus improving the atmosphere in workshops.
CONDAT has also developed a lubricant product based on renewable raw materials. EXTRUGLISS GREEN allows to reduce by 70% the amount of fossil carbon in cold heading oils. It has extraordinary performances (such as in section reductions >70% or operations generating enormous pressure on punches and dies) and enables to manufacture very difficult parts.
EXTRUGLISS GREEN's vegetable-based cold-heading oils can be used for heavy duty forming operations (screw, bolt, nuts and extrusion parts) guaranteeing lower mist and smokes, for an operator-friendly working environment.
For more information, you can visit www.condat.fr or contact [email protected].
