Sustainability
for Fuel and Lubricant Solutions
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Fuel and Lubricant Solutions
Sustainability
Curious about our joint journey towards developing a sustainable future?
Learn more by visiting our FOCUS ON event series.
Our solutions contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)
Our products offer a wide range of benefits that contribute to one or even more of the UN SDGs.
This way, we enable impactful contributions to Sustainability along our industries' value chains.
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KEROPUR®
Additives for better fuel and cleaner air
Your benefits
- Makes your fuel efficiently remove/prevent deposits, leading to cleaner engines and higher efficiency
- Improves fuel economy and enables you to contribute to lower emissions
- Reduces cost for vehicle owners by enabling longer engine lifes at improved performance levels
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KEROPUR® Fuel Additives
EMGARD® Transportation Lubricants
Axle and transmission lubricants to boost efficiency of freight operations
Your benefits
- Improved fuel economy, usingless fuel to deliver freight.
- Reduced CO2 greenhouse gas to reduce environmental impact.
- Reduced waste oil generation due to extended drain intervals.
- Increased freight efficiency through reduced maintenance downtime.
- Improved performance in all climate conditions.
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EMGARD® Transportation Lubricants
HYDRAULAN® 406 ESI
Brake fluids for the safety of tomorrow
Your benefits
- Ensure realiability of your modern brake system through maximized lubricity
- Achieve long lasting brake safety through minimized elastomer wear
- Enjoy freedom to operate through full regulatory compliance, e.g., REACH
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HYDRAULAN® 406 ESI
IRGALUBE® FE1
Additive for the preservation of resources
Your benefits
- Boosts engine oils to enable lower friction and better engine performance
- Improves fuel economy and enables you to contribute to lower emissions
- Reduces costs and environmental impact for vehicles owners through reduced fuel consumption
- Helps conserve fossil resources through its renewable raw materials formula
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IRGALUBE® FE1
GLYSANTIN® G64® and G65®
Coolants to protect modern engines and enable longlife performance
Your benefits
- Ensure longlife performance of your engine cooling system through improved thermal stability, minimized build-up of deposits and excellent corrosion inhibition
- Enjoy freedom to operate through full regulatory compliance, e.g., REACH
- Also suitable for electric vehicles
- Available as GLYSANTIN® ECO BMB products, delivering customized CO2 emissions savings
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GLYSANTIN® G64® and G65®
GLYSANTIN® FC G20® ELECTRIFIED®
Coolant for powerful and energy-efficient fuel cells
Your benefits
- Minimized loss of energy thanks to low ion concentration and low electrical conductivity
- Specially designed for modern fuel cell engines to support low-emission technologies
- Keeps engine safe through triple protection against corrosion, overheating and frost
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GLYSANTIN® FC G20® ELECTRIFIED®
GLYSANTIN® FC G20® ELECTRIFIED®
E-coolants for safe and high-performing batteries
Your benefits
- Low conductivity and ready-to-use protection for electric vehicles
- Specifically designed for next generation electric vehicles to support low-emission technologies
- Protects cooling system of battery, engine and electronic parts against corrosion, overheating and frost
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GLYSANTIN® FC G20® ELECTRIFIED®
SYNATIVE® Synthetic Ester Basestocks
Synthetic esters for formulation of e-fluids for safe and high-performing electric vehicles
Your benefits
- Excellent thermal and oxidative stability combined with superior heat conductivity ensure high performance in e-vehicles
- Optimized dielectric properties for safe mobility
- Low viscosities and volatility for improved efficiency
- No labelling, high biodegradability and up to 100% renewable feed- stocks for reduced environmental impact
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SYNATIVE® Synthetic Ester Basestocks
New Perspectives
Engage with us - to shape the bigger picture
At BASF Fuel and Lubricant Solutions we understand the challenges ahead and are committed to tackling them together with our industry partners. Leveraging our strong technological, policy and advocacy expertise we offer inspiring dialogue and consultancy on a broad range of pressing issues, including:
The EU Taxonomy, The European Green Deal, Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS), Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), EU Hydrogen Strategy and Energy Integration Strategy, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU), Electro mobility and electric vehicles (EV), Renewable energy, Alternative feedstocks (renewable, circular and bio-based feedstock), The Korean Green Deal
Sustainability Services for Fuel and Lubricant Solutions
Unique tools, practical solutions and best practices to manage your daily challenges
Eco-Efficiency Analysis according to BASF methodology
Demonstrate the sustainability advantages of your product
- Assesses sustainability performance of products and processes on a comprehensive and comparative basis
- Combines cradle-to-grave environmental and economic impacts
- Compares different options in these two dimensions Helps decision-making by reducing complex information to simple graphs and a single recommendation
- Identifies sustainability levers for improvement
We committedly drive the change of our industry via our engagement in major industry associations, amongst others, including:
VSI - Verband Schmierstoff-Industrie e.V.
ATIEL - The Technical Association of the European Lubricants Industry
ATC - The Additive Technical Committee of Petroleum Additive Manufacturers in Europe.
UEIL - Union Européen des Indépendants en Lubrifiants
On a joint journey Shell and BASF are driving Sustainability within the industry, with each company following the ambitious goal to become carbon neutral by 2050*. For this we are closely collaborating on a broad range of projects kicked off in various workshops. In order to further minimize environmental impact of our joint activities, we work on concepts reducing our carbon footprints of products and logistics and use resources efficiently.
* Shell's target is to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 in step with society. BASF has set itself the goal of climate neutrality in 2050.
The joint eco-efficiency analysis for hydraulic fluids with BASF was teamwork in the best possible way. While our BASF colleagues demonstrated their outstanding method competence, we at FUCHS could utilize our solid, practical data and field experience. This will certainly not be our last joint study.
Our joint eco-efficiency analysis for hydraulic fluids proves how important our holistic view on the entire value chain is. With the results of such a well-founded study, we also want to provide impulses for the entire lubricant industry
One of the opportunities to operationalize the concept of sustainability is to participate in the product EU Ecolabelling scheme. BASF Fuel and Lubricants Solutions strongly supports the initiative, by having a substantial number of products (base fluids and lubricant oil additives) assessed for the EU Ecolabel for the lubricant product group, and included in the Lubricant Substance Classification (LuSC list). The assessment of eco-friendly lubricants involves detailed analysis of the product chemical composition, (potential) hazard and exposure scenario’s, its technical performance and use of verified sustainable raw materials. In this capacity it is an advantage that the company has extensive technical, regulatory and toxicology expertise, benefits from own research and testing capacity following the principles of Good Laboratory Practice and several production locations that are RSPO-certified.
Under the advocacy umbrella, Dr. Ivana Krkljuš supported the Revision of the existing EU Ecolabel criteria (Commission Decision 2011/381/EU) for lubricant product group. The new EU Ecolabel criteria are established in several tripartite meetings between the EU Ecolabelling board and their supporting institutes (e.g. JRC-Sevilla, ECHA), NGOs, and lubricant industry stakeholders. The success may be attributed to the investment of significant resources by BASF into the initiative in terms of time and providing advice around the review of four technical reports, and final representation in front of the European Commission’s Directorate General for the Environment (Brussels, 2018).