Klüber Lubrication now offers new water-miscible bonded coatings free of flammable solvents for the life-time dry lubrication and pre-start lubrication of special applications. Apart from the well-known benefits of dry lubrication, the new product lines significantly improves the sliding and sealing effect of O-rings due to the reduced permeability to gases and liquids. The new product line complements the product families Klüberplus for easier assembly, Klüberflex for dynamic applications and Klübertop for use in the food sector.
“In O-ring lubrication bonded coatings have to fulfill various tasks, e.g. provide a separation effect, simplify assembly, or withstand dynamic loads like in valve lubrication”, explains Rudolf Zechel, Manager Special Projects at Klüber Lubrication. “Bonded coatings for components in the food and drinking waters sector also have to comply with FDA and drinking water requirements. Our new product line combines the advantages of our proven bonded coatings with the additional benefit of being free of flammable solvents, which is why no emissions are released during application.”
Bonded coatings used for O-rings offer numerous advantages. O-rings can be separated easily during automated assembly. They ensure a high level of safety as leakage or twisting of O-rings during assembly is prevented and joining forces are reduced. In addition, contamination of sensors due to lubrication can be ruled out. Bonded coatings can also be used for colouring to minimise the risk of confusion with different sizes or materials.
In dynamic applications, dry-lubricated O-rings significantly reduce the friction value and increase the service life of components. This applies to seals subject to several hundred revolutions per minute as well as to low-speed applications such as opening fuel filler caps or operating a bell button. Such applications are efficiently protected from freezing in winter time by using bonded coatings.
About Klüber Lubrication
Klüber Lubrication is one of the world's leading manufacturers of speciality lubricants, offering high-end tribological solutions to virtually all industries and markets worldwide. Most products are developed and made to specific customer requirements. During its more than 80 years of existence, Klüber Lubrication has provided high-quality lubricants, thorough consultation and extensive services, which has earned it an excellent reputation in the market. The company holds all common industrial certifications and operates a testing section hardly rivalled in the lubricants industry.
Klüber Lubrication, set up as a retail company for mineral oil products in Munich in 1929, is today part of Freudenberg Chemical Specialities SE & Co. KG, a Business Group of the Freudenberg Group, Weinheim. Klüber Lubrication has about 2,000 employees in more than 30 countries.
About Freudenberg Chemical Specialities
Freudenberg Chemical Specialities develops, manufactures and markets chemical specialities. In order to be as close as possible to customers, the company has a global market presence comprising five brands: Klüber Lubrication, Chem-Trend, OKS, SurTec and Capol. Freudenberg Chemical Specialities is one of the world's leading manufacturers of speciality lubricants, release agents, chemotechnical maintenance products as well as surface treatment and electroplating solutions. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Freudenberg Chemical Specialities operates in about 40 countries via its own companies. In 2015, the Business Group employed a workforce of around 3,300 and generated a turnover of approx. Euro 960 million.
