Although forging fluid products have remained quite similar for the last 20 to 40 years, the requirements for industrial businesses have significantly evolved. Today, more specific and technically-advanced lubricants are needed as different kinds of parts are often forged within the same industrial plants.
Lubrication performance is a combination of chemistry and lubricant application. Even though there has been progress in forging processes, dies, forging presses and alloys quality, lubrication remains a very important technical factor for forgings quality, dies life and overall productivity. They all may rely heavily on individual lubricant product performance. Quaker Houghton has designed specific forging performance laboratory tests to understand the customers’ problems and help solve them.
Individually designed testing process
The supplier of industrial process fluids offers a testing process for 80 to 85 percent of the water-based lubricants used in industry. The process is completed on-site at its forging customer solutions center. After a variety of different in-house tests, we can adapt and evolve the testing procedures as necessary. For example, cooling testing might involve anything from a single test up to ten tests before gaining the right results.
The different laboratory tests are crucial because it enables us to know that when we recommend a product, the different performance attributes of that product will precisely match the customers’ expectations. Then we can tweak formulations and make changes accordingly.
The laboratory tests allow the customers to define the performance of each product based on the concentration and application that reduces the cost of use:
- Optimise die life by regulating temperature and applying sufficient protection in cold and hot areas.
- Increase productivity through better cooling performance.
- Reduce product consumption by applying the necessary dilution rate.
- Improve work environment.
