Lubricity Improvers

Block Co-polymers

BASF is one of the leading suppliers of high-performance components for lubricants and metalworking fluids, offering a comprehensive range of specialties. As a key supplier to lubricant formulators, we understand our customers’ problems and needs. Our range of Synative^® lubricity improvers consist mainly of block co-polymers for use in fully synthetic water-based metalworking fluids. These products offer excellent lubricity and low foaming properties, are easy to formulate and very often provide additional benefits such as emulsion stability, improved wetting and detergency characteristics.

At a Glance

BASF offering comprises two technologies of block co-polymers for use as lubricity improvers in fully synthetic water-based metalworking fluids

Product portfolio offers superior performance including excellent lubrication, low foaming properties, improved wetting & detergency characteristics, good stability and superior EHS profile

Lubricity improvers are applied for a variety of applications, for ferrous & non-ferrous metal manufacturing, as well as for non-metal raw material manufacturing, such as wafer and glass

Typical Applications

Metal removal fluids

Metal cutting fluids, Metal grinding fluids, Drilling fluids, Diamond wafer cutting fluids

Metal forming fluids

Steel rolling fluids, Aluminum processing fluids, Drawing fluids

Key Features & Benefits

What properties can block co-polymers offer for high performance MWF formulations?

Excellent lubrication properties
Ease of emulsification and formulation stability
Low foaming properties
Co-emulsification
Improved wetting & detergency characteristics
Good hydrolytic stability
Neutral pH values
Hard water stability
Strong environment-health-safety profile
Extension of fluid lifetime help to optimize waste management
Lubricity improvers based on 100% renewable feedstocks possible (Biomass Balance)

Portfolio

Discover our block co-polymer portfolio which is tailored to meet current and future challenges of the metalworking fluids applications.

As a world leading supplier for lubricant components, we offer a broad range of products for use in metalworking fluids formulations.

Discover our other components for metalworking fluids formulations:

Coupling Agents / Solubilizers