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News Release from: John Neale | Subject: Stainless steel tube drawing lubricants
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 August 2006
SS tube lubricant improves draw
performance
Stainless steel tube drawing lubricants give cooler dies, material pick up becomes insignificant, and fuming is less due to lower operating temperatures, while surface finish is better.
Gulf Lubricants have after successful field trials and extensive research introduces a comprehensive range of tube drawing lubricants which covers all metals Gulf has focused on obtaining the highest possible performance from their unique product chemistries
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 3 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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A range of lubricants can be applied as a coating for the most severe cold reductions in stainless steel alloy, and titanium and are suitable for the most arduous operations.
The products are therefore able to exceed the performance which tube drawing customers have sometimes had to endure in the past.
Gulf is able to supply innovative products for both tube drawing and tube bending applications.
Gulf Superdraw Stainless Steel Tube Drawing technology includes the highest performing stainless steel tube drawing products currently available.
These products make what were considered premium performance tube drawing lubricants look very second rate.
Gulfs products allow for the most severe reductions on the most difficult materials.
They give cooler dies due to massively enhanced lubrication, pick up becomes insignificant, and fuming is less due to lower operating temperatures, surface finish is better.
Tube can be drawn without the requirement for pre-coats of plastic lubricants, or the requirement to roughen the surface to give a key for lubricants.
Gulf Superdraw non-ferrous tube technology includes clean anneal copper tube lubricants, aluminium tube lubricants which offer superb performance in total loss, re-circulated, drawing applications.
Gulf Superdraw Tube Bending Lubricants are also highly advanced, time spent developing chlorine-free technology has yielded products which can easily replace chlorinated lubricants.
Gulf has also listened to the customers demand for easier removal of tube bending lubricants and has introduced a very high performance neat fully water soluble tube bending lubricant.
This lubricant Superdraw 1124 has found success on stainless steel tube bending, and also very recently tube reduction on copper and copper alloys.
Gulf's capability and range of products will be able to help more manufacturers enhance their processes.
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