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High productivity under the harshest conditions

Specialty lubricants used in steel production must perform effectively around the clock and under harsh operating conditions. We develop specialty lubricants for the steel industry that meet your requirements while contributing to increased plant availability.

  • ✔ High system availability and long maintenance intervals

    ✔ High system availability and long maintenance intervals

    Our lubricants are matched to your specific application area. They help prevent corrosion and wear. This enables a long service life for your systems.

  • ✔ Very high productivity and long service life

    ✔ Very high productivity and long service life

    Lubricants from Klüber Lubrication feature excellent lubricity, temperature resistance and ageing resistance. This allows downtime for repairs and maintenance to be significantly reduced.

  • ✔ Cost Savings

    High-performance lubricants help you maximise productivity and availability with minimal downtime. Machines become more reliable, with longer service life.

  • ✔ Expert consulting

    Our experts offer you measurable added value through our comprehensive services and expertise from over 90 years of experience.

  • ✔ Quantified results

    Energy savings can be quantified according to ISO 50015 and IPMVP to support energy management systems (e.g. ISO 50001).

  • ✔ Sustainable optimisation

    Our consulting helps you achieve your sustainability goals. Improve efficiency, reduce emissions and costs, meet environmental standards.

Specialty lubricants for the entire steel production process

Steel plants must recover their high investment costs through continuous production, with minimal downtime and maintenance stops. Machines need high availability and running reliability for extended periods – yet their environment’s high temperatures and extreme loads, water, steam, and aggressive media exceed the capabilities of standard lubricants.

By contrast, our range of specialty lubricants for the entire steel production process is designed to reduce wear reliably and increases component lifetime considerably even under the harshest conditions. This improves plant availability and profitability, while reducing consumption and contributing to environmental protection.

Specialty lubricants from Klüber Lubrication are used across many steel industry applications, with the deployment areas and requirements being as diverse as the different plant and equipment types:

  • Coke plant reversible valves
  • Continuous annealing furnace
  • Electrolytic tin plating line (ETL)
  • Electrostatic precipitator

Overview: Products and lubrication points for applications in steel production

  • Higher productivity
  • Better cost reduction
  • Reduction of production stoppages; actual and planned production hours nearly or entirely the same
  • Extended maintenance intervals
  • Decreased maintenance time
  • Extended machine life with high reliability and availability 

 

  • Greases withstand high temperatures without hardening
  • Increased sustainability
  • Improved reliability at high temperatures
  • Compliance with safety and environmental regulations
  • Less waste of lubricants
  • Worldwide production and distribution of specialty lubricants by Klüber Lubrication

Reduced lubricant consumption contributes to sustainable production

We strive to minimise any negative environmental impact; similarly, our lubricants and services offer you considerable potential for improving your sustainability and environmental protection. These benefits relate to lower lubricant consumption:

  • Reduction in CO2 emissions: We are certified according to the "International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol" (IPMVP) and the "Efficiency Valuation Organization" (EVO) regulations
  • Less effort and cost needed for waste water treatment, easier to prevent pollution
  • Neater, cleaner, and safer working environment with reduced spillage
  • Lower consumption of cleaning agents and water
  • Less lubricant wastage, less lubricant washed from machinery

Increase productivity with our specialty lubricants for continuous casting machines

Continuous casters are one of the most critical operating areas in the steel plant. A possible stoppage or segment change in these casters due to lubrication failure can lead to huge production losses or deterioration of slab quality. With our 90 years of business experience, we now have solutions for over 80 different continuous casting machines, providing precisely the lubricants needed to increase productivity. Our Klüberplex HB 98-601 lubricant, for example, is a synthetic lubricant for pipelines exposed to high temperatures:

  • Increased component life as this new grease always reaches the bearing, and provides better protection at high temperatures
  • No hardening tendency even at temperatures exceeding 250 °C
  • Increased productivity with fewer unplanned bearing changes 
  • Reduced consumption of lubricant through optimal product application
  • Cost reduction through extended relubrication intervals

Download our folder: Specialty lubricants for continuous casting machines

Withstand harsh conditions with our specialty grease for hot rolling mills

Hot rolling mills are subject to high loads and shocks, along with contamination from water, steam, scale and rolling oil. Manual or centralised lubrication can be used. With a -10 to 160 °C service temperature, Klüberplex BE 91-502 grease is suitable for hot rolling mills, and offers many key advantages:

  • Extraordinary adhesion on metallic surfaces
  • Excellent sealing characteristics
  • High mechanical stability
  • Keeps its characteristics even with high water content
  • Water and steam resistant
  • Extended lubrication intervals possible
  • Less intervention needed in the bearing
  • Greater protection against wear increasing campaign and bearing life
  • Safe for personnel as the product contains no hazardous material or heavy metal

Wherever you are

Our experts understand the entire steel production process, from ore processing to rolling mills finishing line going through coke plants, blast furnaces, sinter plants and lime plants. They provide personal advice on selecting the right lubricant, wherever you are. We continuously enhance our comprehensive range with new solutions that encompass technical innovation right from the start.

Our worldwide presence means that we always have R&D capability close at hand, while logistics time, complexity and costs are minimised.

  • Years of experience in the steel industry

    35 Years of experience in the steel industry

  • Countries

    181 Countries

  • Test stands for applied lubrication tests

    110 Test stands for applied lubrication tests

  • OEM approvals

    1655 OEM approvals

  • Tons CO<sub>2</sub> saved for our customers in 2019

    28000 Tons CO2 saved for our customers in 2019

  • MWh electricity saved for our customers in 2019

    193000 MWh electricity saved for our customers in 2019

Your benefits at a glance:

  • Higher productivity
  • Better cost reduction
  • Reduction of production stoppages
  • Extended maintenance intervals
  • Extended machine life with high reliability and availability
  • Increased sustainability
  • Compliance with safety and environmental regulations
  • Less waste of lubricants
  • Worldwide production and distribution of specialty lubricants by Klüber Lubrication
  • Solutions for the Steel Industry

    Overview: products and lubrication points for applications in steel production

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Here you find a product selection of all sub segments for the steel industry

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Are you looking for the right specialty lubricant for your application area? Do you have questions, or do you need advice on a special solution? We are here to help you – talk with our experts about your project!

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