PFPE products for extreme requirements.

PFPE (perfluorinated polyether) is a long-chain polymer made up of carbon, oxygen and fluorine. Due to the strong carbon-fluorine bond, the PFPE chain structure is extremely well protected and hence highly inert. This inertness provides excellent high-temperature performance and makes PFPE products extremely useful in the presence of highly reactive chemicals. PFPE are non-flammable and have low toxicity. This supports you in acting responsibly towards the environment, your employees and customers.

Most of our PFPE base oils are exclusively produced for Klüber Lubrication and as raw materials are unrivalled in the field of PFPE lubricants. By using such oils and our sophisticated production technology to make PFPE greases of high purity and extraordinary homogeneity, we can offer you PFPE products with an outstanding performance. Our strength is close cooperation with customers and partners, for whom we also develop tailor-made products.

When developing and testing our speciality lubricants, we take the specific requirements of our customers as our yardstick. Our unique test house offers more than 100 testing installations, some of which we have developed ourselves for particular testing purposes.

If direct contact between the lubricant and aggressive media cannot be avoided, lubricants have to offer particularly high resistance. This kind of chemical stability is found in the PFPE-based lubricants from Klüber Lubrication because of their specific structure and purity.

A lubricant has to function reliably even in high or ultra-high vacuum conditions. Excessive evaporation losses lead to a higher risk of lubricant starvation and are detrimental to quality, due to abrasion and condensates. Vacuum-resistant PFPE lubricants made by Klüber Lubrication support sensitive manufacturing processes.

This is why our quality requirements are particularly stringent when selecting raw materials for our vacuum greases and oils as well as during manufacture of these lubricants. The narrow molecular weight distribution of the PFPE oils used keeps evaporation losses and vapour pressure very low.

For fast-rotating bearings operating at high temperature or under the influence of media, PFPE lubricants may not sound like the obvious option since these products are not known for their high-speed characteristics. We have, however, developed a special product concept and succeeded in pushing the performance limits of our products considerably. It is our ample experience and our knowledge of which base materials and processes are instrumental in developing, testing and efficiently manufacturing a speciality lubricant that have made this specific solution possible.