Whether facing extreme corrosion, high loads, rapid biodegradability, low environmental impact or long maintenance intervals – industrial lubricants from Klüber meet the demanding requirements of railway and marine applications. They have been specifically developed for individual applications and are designed to increase reliability, economy and service life of components in these industries, resulting in lower operating costs.

Some of the applications in Marine where Klüber products are used: Propulsion Engines (Diesel Engine, Gas Turbine), Power Transmission/Gears (Ship reduction gearbox, Highly flexible coupling, Gear Coupling), Propeller (Fixed pitch propeller (FPP) / Controllable pitch propeller (CPP), POD  propeller, Rudder propeller & Bow thruster), Electrical System (Electrical  Propulsion motor and alternator, Switches and Connectors), Compressor (Air Compressor, Cooling Compressor, Gas Compressor), Deck Equipment (Fairleads, Winch, Capstan), Doors/Hatches/Ramps (Inner Doors/ Bulkheads/ Outer doors, Loading – Unloading Ramps/ Hatch), Crane/material Handling (Lift, Crane, Twist Lock, Rail/ rail point, Harbor cranes), Miscellaneous (Rudder, Fin stabilizer, Rope, Compensator chain for offshore platform, Fit-up Aid).

Some of the applications in Railways where Klüber products are used: Propulsion (Bonded Coating and lubricating paste for Diesel Engines, Lubrication of traction motor bearings, Lubrication of Generators), Power Transmission/ Drives (Mechanical Drives, Hydrodynamic Drive, Universal Shaft, Highly flexible coupling, Lubrication of Gear Couplings), Wheels/Brakes (On-board lubrication of wheel flanges, Lubricants for easy disassembly of brake components), Bogie (Screw and Bold connections, Bogie sliding elements, Tilting Train technology), Vehicle/ Accessories (Doors, Buffer, Screw-Type     Coupling,   Automatic    Coupling,   Air Compressor,      Current Controller), Track System (Rail Switch, Track side lubricator, Barrier, Signaling Equipment, Current Breaker), Means of Transport (Escalator, Elevator), Miscellaneous (Lubrication for electric contacts and toilets).

We offer automotive lubricants. For many of a vehicle’s components, the lubricant plays a vital role as a design element. Because wherever there is relative motion between machine components in contact, specialty lubricants reduce wear and tear, alleviate friction and enhance the functioning of the component concerned. Klüber Lubrication accordingly prioritizes close cooperation between the component and lubricant producers whenever new development work is involved. With tribological solutions individually tailored to its customers’ needs, Klüber Lubrication helps them to optimize their products, to create or enhance an innovative lead over their competitors, to upgrade their productivity levels and not least to cut their costs.

Concept Capability

You will find Klüber’s lubricants in almost every part of an automobile, doing an excellent job the whole world over, a claim corroborated by a multiplicity of approvals from almost all automakers and their component suppliers. If the existing range of several thousand Klüber products happens not to include the precise lubricant that’s currently needed, then Klüber Lubrication joins forces with the customer to develop a new solution precisely tailored to the specific requirements concerned. On more than 100 test stations, Klüber’s lubricants are tested to their limits – and beyond. The test results serve as the basic data for selecting the optimum lubricant, a choice that the customer can verify by observing individual component trials in Klüber’s own test laboratory.

Current concepts/ technologies

Being faster than others when it comes to research, development and testing – that means answering tomorrow’s questions today. Klüber Lubrication is accordingly committed to early cooperation with vehicle and component manufacturers, and is continually expanding its comprehensive range of products. Specialty lubricants from Klüber have proved their capabilities in series production for brakes, steering systems, axles, C.V. joints, motors, gear shifts, clutches, electrics, passenger compartments, locks, window lifters, sliding roofs, seats, safety belts, profile seals, etc. Klüber’s specialty lubricants for vehicle components are designed for lifetime lubrication at high and low temperatures, to be compatible with plastics and elastomers, odour-neutral and fogging-tested, resistant to media like petrol, brake fluid, blow-by gases, and much, much more. In many applications, conventional types of lubricant (greases, oils or pastes) are able to meet the requirements involved to optimum effect. In cars, however, dry lubricants such as bonded coatings are an increasingly preferred alternative to “wet” lubricants. In car passenger compartments, particularly, there is a growing trend towards replacing greases and oils by different lubricating solutions, so as to prevent any possible contact between the vehicle’s occupants and these lubricants, as well as countering odour problems. Dry lubricants do not emit any odours, and are thus neutral in respect to the interior climate. Yet another plus is that their properties change hardly at all over time.

Klüber’s solutions for topical lubricant issues include:

• Bonded coatings for profile seals, ensuring a soft-feel effect and contributing to improved function,
• Specialty lubricants for new generations of ball joints, helping to meet the requirements generated by increased loads and limited space,
• Specialty lubricating greases for small-size gear units, ensuring that window lifters and windscreen wiper motors function dependably even at temperatures well below zero or in highly corrosive environments,
• Specialty lubricating greases, contributing towards optimum sound absorption and mechanical d
  

Klüber offers specialty machine lubricants for various types of machines and installations in wood, paper, pulp and printing industries. Klüber also offers high-performance lubricants for related equipment such as valves, hydraulic units, pumps, fans, compressors, gears, and for maintenance and repair purposes. All these products are state-of-the-art from the economical and ecological point of view.

Some of the applications where Klüber lubricants are used are:

Wood yard: Debarking Drum, Bark Presses (Piston-type presses, Drum-type presses), Wood Grinders, Pressure Wood grinders.

Pulp Manufacturing: Thermo-mechanical pulping (TMP) and Chemi-thermo-mechanical-pulping (CTMP), Refiners (Twin Refiner, Double Disc refiner,Single Disc refiner), Chemical Pulping, Digester (Stirring unit in discharger), Bleacher, Dewatering presses (Wire presses, Screw-type presses), Wet end (Head box, Wire section, Press section, Doctor blade), Dry End (Rope sheaves, Spread rolls, Steam heads/ Rotating unions, Doctor blade)

Paper Manufacture: Sizing, Secondary drying, Glazing, Winding, Upgrading, Coating section (Spread rolls, Steam heads/ rotating unions, Rewinder), Upgrading, Grazing-winding section (Soft calendar, Super calendar, Winding machine), Finishing section (Roll and sheet cutters, Under floor conveyors), Chemical Recovery (heating and burning systems), Rotary Kiln (Girth gear drive, Tyre support), Recovery system (Soot blower, Induced –draft / flue gas fan)

Related Equipment: Valves and fittings, Electric motors, Universal shafts, Hot air fans, Hydraulic systems, Chains, Pumps, Air circulation fans, Adjusting spindles.

We offer textile machine lubricants. Modern and powerful textile machines confront both manufacturers and operators with multi-faceted lubrication tasks. The various loads and ambient conditions at the friction points – moisture, aggressive media, high temperatures or speeds, just to mention a few – are often too taxing for standard lubricants. Moreover, lower energy costs or simpler maintenance are also frequently called for. This is where the lubricant specialist Klüber Lubrication with its international activities comes into play: smart tribological solutions for demanding lubrication tasks have a long-standing tradition at Klüber, as has the close cooperation with well-known textile machine manufacturers and operators worldwide. Its expertise in both sectors enables Klüber to act as an interface to the field of lubrication and provide solutions for optimized textile machine operation. The experience of the lubrication specialist is also of high value for the OEMs' development activities. Customers from the production sector, on the other hand, benefit from the fact that the lubricants made by Klüber are tailored to the requirements of each individual machine, are used for initial lubrication by many OEMs and are therefore often officially approved and recommended by them.

The Klüber product range for the textile industry offers specialty lubricants for

• Spinning machines
• Synthetic fibre spinning machines
• Synthetic fibre processing machines
• Winding machines
• Twisting machines, equipment and accessories
• Knitting machines
• Weaving preparation and weaving machines
• Textile finishing machines

Besides a wide range of high-performance lubricants, Klüber Lubrication offers its customers internationally a comprehensive choice of services, ranging from technical application consulting to development partnerships, component or used-lubricant analysis and customer training.

Klüber Lubrication offers a broad spectrum of top-quality, high-performance products for lubricating machine tools. These machine tool lubricants have been developed over long decades of collaboration with numerous OEMs, i.e. the manufacturers of machine tools, spindles and rolling bearings, who recommend them and indeed use them themselves. On numerous test rigs, Klüber puts all products through their paces. Our machine tool lubricants not only help to make your machines run smoothly. Depending on the application, they also enable

• Longer maintenance intervals and lifetime lubrication, thus lower operating costs,
• Longer service lives of components and machines and installations,
• Higher efficiency and hence lower energy consumption,
• Reduction of your number of lubricants and hence lower handling and stock keeping costs,
• Smooth start of machines even under severe ambient conditions.

Lubricants for Machine Tools and Installations: Klüber Lubrication offers a comprehensive range of speciality lubricants for the Machine tool industry for applications such as:

High-speed spindles - special spindle bearing greases allow maximum speeds, speed factors as high as 2.3 million have been achieved, and can be used both for horizontal and vertical tool spindles owing to the consistency of the grease.

Linear guides - Klüber specialty lubricants allow maximum precision in positioning and repeating accuracy, cope with high speeds and accelerations and resist impact loads, aggressive media as well as radiation.

Cutter headgears - Tried-and-tested special greases from Klüber ensure reliable lubrication at high peripheral speeds in intermittent operation. Good corrosion protection and resistance to water and the use of cooling lubricants contribute to a long service life of components.

We offer industrial machine lubricamts that are widely used in cement, mining, coal power plant and fertilizers. The detaisl are given below

Lubricants for the Cement Industry – Klüber Lubrication offers speciality lubricants for all kinds of cement plant applications like Crushers, Grinding Mills, Separators, Roller Presses, Rotary Kilns, Coolers, Ball Mills, Open gear drives, Enclosed gears, Gear couplings, Assembly pastes, Compressors and other general applications.

Lubricants for the Mining Industry – Klüber Lubrication offers speciality lubricants for all kinds of mining applications like Ball Mills, Roller Presses, Vertical Mills, Walking Cam Draglines (Cam and Slide Walking Mechanism, Open Gears, Wire Ropes, Gear Oils, General applications), Crushers, Vibratory Screens/ Sifters, Drills, Shovels, Dozers, Dumpers, Excavators (Bucket Wheel, Walking Legs) Stackers & Re-claimers, Loaders, Cranes, Chains, Hoisting Engines, Conveyor belts, Spreaders, Scrapers, Dredgers, Deep Boring implements, Track laying machines etc which are used in Aluminum/ Bauxite, Zinc, Iron, Coal, Copper and other types of mining operations.

Lubricants for Coal power plants – Klüber Lubrication offers speciality lubricants for all kinds of Coal Power plant applications like Ball Mill Coal Pulverizers, Vertical Mills, Gas and Air pre-heater, Soot blower, Induced draught and flue gas ventilators, feed water and superheated steam valves, secondary air flaps on boilers, boiler feed pumps, cleaning rake in cooling circulation systems, hot air and flue gas duct flaps, bolted connection in a turbine housing, exhaust lines and exhaust pipes and various gear boxes.

Lubricants for the Fertilizer Industry - Klüber Lubrication offers speciality lubricants for all kinds of Fertilizer industry applications like Grinding mill, Reactor, Mill, Granulator, Sieve, Mixer, Conveyor belt, Drying drums, Compactors, screw connections, Compressors, Gas cleaner, Contact Oven, Cooler, Separator, Fluidized bed, Crushing, Dozing, Excavators, material handling, elevators, tunneling machines, centrifuges, filters, engines and
hydraulic components etc.

We offer food grade lubricants. For decades Klüber has been developing and manufacturing special lubricants tailored to suit the requirements in the food-processing and pharmaceutical Industry. Food-grade lubricants are required to be:

• Compliant with food regulations, either HACCP or GMP requirements
• Physiologically inert
• Without taste or smell, and
• Internationally approved

Lubricants for the food and beverage industries are reviewed by NSF International (NSF), an independent registration body, and registered as either H1 or H2. To have his product registered as a lubricant suitable for use in food-processing industries, the lubricant manufacturer has to prove that all ingredients used in its formulation are on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) list of allowable substances, in accordance with the Code of federal regulations CFR 21, section 178.3570. Lubricants are registered in two categories, H1 or H2, based on the specified raw material lists. Klüber is amongst the first few companies, which not only use Food Grade raw materials but has gone a step ahead in getting its manufacturing process certified under new ISO 21496 certification.

Klüber lubricants are used and recommended by leading original equipment manufacturers across the industry for applications such as:

• Filling or Washing machine in Beverage Industry,
• Decanters, separators, Homogenisers in Dairy and Fruit processing industry.
• Dough Mixers, Agitators, Ovens or packaging machines in the biscuit and chocolate Industry.
• Dies & punches in tablet compression machine, granulators, mixers, reactor gearbox or high temperature greases for blister packing machine in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Klüber has a wide range of solutions for food and pharma Industry starting with:

• Food Grade oil for gearboxes
• Food Grade Grease for Low as well as high temperature applications.
• Food Grade Cleaner
• Food Grade Corrosion protection

Klüber not only supplies food grade lubricants but also has moved a step forward in providing a comprehensive solution in the form of technical service package called KLASS.

Klüber Lubrication Asset Support Service Package (KLASS) helps to protect your assets, maximize your line efficiency, production output, reduce costs and contributes towards food safety.

KLASS is made up of a set of tools, which can be selected, as appropriate to meet the individual needs of any food and pharmaceutical production plant.

KLASS is based on a getting the right mix of lubricants, knowledge, support and by working together.

The KLASS tools required are selected after detailed discussion between the Klüber KLASS Project Manager and the designated partner, ‘KLASS Driver’, in the food or pharmaceutical plant concerned. To develop and maximize the benefits of KLASS, a close cooperation is necessary for the Klüber KLASS Manager to gain a deep understanding of the customer’s business objective even if it is not lubricant related as from experience KLASS can impact many things such as output, machine uptime

KLASS involves 5 steps therefore to enjoy the benefits of what KLASS delivers we look forward to the opportunity in working together with you through the 5 steps of KLASS.

KLASS is customized to suit the needs of a food manufacturing plant in close co-operation between the Klüber team and team from the customer’s side to deliver optimum results.

Klüber has the resources to help you meet the competitive challenges of your marketplace and has the potential to develop into your critical partner.

Klüber lubrication offers rolling mill lubricants for all applications in a steel work like:

Raw material processing – Crushing, Briquetting, Scrap preparation, Tubular Mills, Grinding Mills, Sintering Plants, Large gear drives (Rotary kilns, tube mills, driers, winches) etc.

Coking plants – Coking plants (coke oven gas cocks, chains), Exhaust systems (precipitator bearings, air classifier bearings), Direct reduction plants (Tap cocks, spherical roller bearings) etc.

Iron & Steel processing – Charging, disc wheels at the lift, swing shaft type shut off valve, gas seal bell, tipping through drives, drilling and plugging machines, wheels of hot metal cars and slag cars, compressors, horizontal measuring head, Briquetting press etc.

Steel Making – Ladles, Arc furnaces, Oxygen converters, pouring ladle valves, crance cables, compressors, motors, couplings, dust extractors etc.

Continuous Casting – Pouring ladle gate (slide ways and tension screws, drive), Rotary connections (rolling bearing raceways, toothed wheels), Strand guide rollers, Roller table gear motor, mould elevating platform, crossover conveyor, blow-torch cutting off machine etc.

Lubricants for Rolling Mills - Klüber Lubrication offers speciality lubricants for all applications in a Rolling Mill like Conveyor Roller bearings, conveyor chains, carriage, work and back-up rolls, hot wide strip mills, wire drawing machine, feed system, cold pilger machines etc.

The loads placed on wind power plants and their components are high. Consequently, choosing the right lubricant is vital – for the initial lubrication of a component as well as for relubricating during operation. After all, it’s the lubricant that has to ensure reliable function of each machine element. In wind turbines we find both fluid (oils) and consistent lubricants (greases). Major lube points are in the:

• Main gears
• Nacelle yawing gears
• Main and generator bearings
• Blade pitch gears, and
• Yaw system

The lubricants used are required to offer full performance over a long service life, good load resistance and good thermal stability. For the operators, these characteristics mean long relubricating intervals for greases and long lubricant life for oils. With speciality lubricants made by Klüber, you will always be ready to face any lubrication challenges.

Some of the applications where Klüber Lubricants are used in wind power stations:

Main gearbox/Azimuth Gears/Pitch Gear: Klüber lubricants offer high scuffing resistance at normal and elevated loads, high micro-pitting resistance, good wear protection, dynamic seal compatibility, low residue formation and higher efficiencies leading to optimized yield.

Yaw Gear systems: Lubricants from Klüber have very good adhesion properties, no dripping off from vertical toothing, high load-carrying capacity, suitable for a wide temperature range, suitable for centralized lubricating systems, high scuffing load capacity, Good pressure absorption, Good corrosion protection and Inhibit stick-slip.

Pitch Bearing: Klüber lubricants offer excellent wear protection, excellent low temperature behaviour, good seal compatibility and good corrosion protection Azimuth roller/ Plain bearing/

Generator bearing/ Yaw bearing: Usage of Klüber lubricants will enable lesser downtimes, more production time, reduction of repair and spare parts costs, simpler logistics due to leaner range
of products and less storage.

Slip rings: Lubricants from Klüber enable long slip ring life due to good corrosion and wear protection. Moreover, Expensive maintenance works are avoided. There is high functional reliability thanks to protection against atmospheric influences.

Slew ring drives (Yaw and pitch control): Klüber products offer good adhesion and do not drop from tooth flanks, even in the vertical orientation unlike other lubricants. This reduces lubricant consumption, disposal and nacelle cleaning costs. Light color prevents staining of the nacelle and tower.

Good pumpability and metering is enabled in centralized lubricant systems, hence trouble-free turbine operation and availability.

As an expert for speciality lubricants, Klüber cooperates closely with the original equipment manufacturers of major wind turbine components to push the limits of what can be technically achieved even further: longer service intervals, longer component life and more reliable operation.

Ever more demanding requirements are made on modern household equipments: higher quality, longer life, lower costs and reduced energy consumption. As a design element, the lubricant helps to meet tough standards in bearings, seals and gears. Whether small or big, hot or cold, quick or slow– Klüber has the suitable lubricant for your specific application. Klüber lubricants find applications in washing machines, driers, dishwashers, exhauster hoods, cookers, refrigerators, freezers, microwaves, mixers, exhaust fans, weighing scales, sewing machines, vacuum cleaner, air humidifier/ dehumidifier, wine cooling machines, coffee machines, toaster, bread baking machines, air-conditioners, hair dryers, electric cutting knives, floor polishing machines, bread slicers, ice cube machines, razors, shoe polishing machines, electric irons, PC desktops, PC notebooks, electrical contacts, other household appliances and installations such a lifts, escalators and elevators. The right lubricant from Klüber offers the following benefits:

• Longer service life of gears, bearings, sliding points
• Reduction of friction and wear
• Reduction of failure rate in household appliances
• Prevention of corrosion
• Prevention of stick-slip
• Noise reduction
• Better compatibility between the lubricant and the plastic/elastomers
• Prevention of lubricant contamination or leakage
• Reduction of contamination, sticking or leakage by using
• Dry lubrication
• Safe food products by using NSF H1-registered lubricants for food machinery
• Better energy balance
• Reduction of component costs and process-related costs