EoW November 2008

lubricants (dry & wet)

Beaded lubricants for wire drawing Blachford has been in business since 1921 developing, manufacturing and marketing technically advanced dry and wet wire drawing lubricants and supplying them to the leading wire manufacturers throughout the world. Blachford works closely with individual customers to improve processes and products and to reduce net costs. Blachford is among leading manufacturers of beaded lubricants. These products are found to be effective for reducing or eliminating dust and die starvation (tunneling) caused by higher quantities of lubricant fines. Blachford offers an assortment of bead sizes and the ability to tailor the lubricant chemistry to optimise pickup in the die. The combined physical and chemical characteristics of beaded lubricants also result in reduced lubricant consumption. Blachford currently manufactures more than 200 technically advanced wiredrawing lubricants with a variety of chemistries, particle morphologies and colours. Blachford Corp – USA Fax : +1 815 464 2112 Email : blachford@urbancom.net Website : www.blachford.com Lubrication from Lubrimetal The use of an advanced top performance drawing lubricant is key to the production of high quality finished wires. Lubrimetal manufactures an established range, including its well- known trademarks For dry drawing, Lubrimetal’s Lubrifil® range includes: Lubrifil VA 2007 – VA 2001 – strong drawing lubricants • for mechanically descaled wire rod (production of galvanised wire for fences, barbed wire and baling wire) Lubrifil VA 3173 and VA 705 drawing lubricants for • PC wire and strand production Lubrifil VA 6001 – VA 7001 – VA 7090 borax-free • sodium-based lubricants for high carbon steel (such as spring and steel cord) and stainless steel wire drawing The Lubriol® range of wet drawing lubricants for ferrous metals, mild steel, high carbon and stainless steel includes: Lubriol V 688 for mig wire • Lubriol LMZ 10 for steel cord • Lubriol CU lubricants for copper wire drawing • (breakdown, intermediate, fine and superfine wire drawings) Lubrimetal has factories in Italy (Lubrimetal SpA) and in India (Peddington Lubrimetal). Lubrimetal – Italy Fax : +39 0341 422386 Email : info@lubrimetal.com Website : www.lubrimetal.com A range of lubricants from Lubrimetal ▲ ▲ Fosfil® and Steelfor® phosphating agents, coatings and carriers. Steelfor ITS/5 is a new borax-free salt coating for steel wire rod and wire pre-drawing preparation for batch and in-line treatments.

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EuroWire – November 2008