CONTENTS
Selecting the Right Base Oil Viscosity for a Grease
Pages 6 to 7
Innovation in Determining Viscosity Index Anton Paar’s Dr Jelena Fischer explores the meaning and importance of getting the correct viscosity index in base oil when formulating products such as greases, and explains how the SVM™series of viscometers can provide great benefits in terms of formulating substances with accuracy to achieve the final product’s desired properties.
Lubricating Grease Making: An Art/Science! Pages 8 and 10
Insider insight into navigating the base stocks business
Dr Anoop Kumar of Royal Manufacturing Co. details the history of the craft of manufacturing lubricating grease, explaining the challenges that arise in the making of these products and the breakthroughs and advancements that have been made in grease manufacture over the last few decades.
ExxonMobil “How To” Grease Educational Videos Page 36
Helping to find the right grease and apply it in the best way
Get up to speed on lubricating greases with ExxonMobil’s new series of educational industry videos. This short piece they have provided for LUBE gives a brief overview on the different types of grease and their applications, and directs readers to where their in-depth grease videos can be found.
Lube-Tech Pages 37 to 40
Biocides for Metal Working Fluids In this comprehensive technical article, Dr Amit Bhattacharya of Dow Microbial Control gives an overview of the various microbial and biological challenges facing Metalworking Fluid manufacturers, with particular reference to those operating in India. Exploring the different types of contamination that can affect Metalworking Fluids, Dr Bhattacharya explores the effectiveness of various biocides used in the industry, and how best to circumnavigate such issues to begin with.
Grease compatibility and why it’s important for your machinery Pages 50 and 52
Evaluating compatibility to ensure an incident-free changeover between grease products Rob Belcher, Lubrication Engineer at Intertek, explains how appropriate testing can help the transition from one grease to another, exploring the issues of grease compatibility, how incompatible greases can lead to reduction in lubrication properties, and the ways in which Intertek can help grease manufacturers overcome these issues.
Argus Media - Base Oils Outlook for the European Market Pages 54 to 56 Projections from Industry Expert Alvin Chew provides insightful projections on prices, production and export volumes in the base oil lubricants market in the coming years based on current industrial and economic trends and directions, and explores the possible effects these projections will have on the industry as a whole.
Regulars: UKLA President’s Report UEIL President’s Report UEIL News
ICIS Base Oil Report Forthcoming Events Publisher’s details
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Cover: Courtesy of Anton Paar GmbH. Anton Paar was established in 1922 and today develops, produces and distributes highly accurate laboratory instruments and process measuring systems, and provides custom-tailored automation and robotic solutions. SVM™ viscometers of Anton Paar have revolutionized viscosity measurements. With an SVM™, a single measuring cycle on a small sample volume yields kinematic viscosity, density, dynamic viscosity, Viscosity Index and more. See their article starting on page 6.
4 LUBE MAGAZINE NO.138 APRIL 2017
Achieving our objectives
The Main Feature of this April 2017 edition is Grease Manufacturing Technologies, and you will be spoilt for choice when it comes to deciding what to read first. In addition to our editorials and reports, Lube Magazine interviewed Ted Walko, ExxonMobil’s Global Basestocks and Specialties Marketing Manager, please turn to page 42!
Through careful planning, we are constantly achieving our objectives. We here in the Lube Office have again broken our last record. This April 2017 edition has 76 pages! This could not have been achieved without our loyal and new advertisers, as well as the providers of our editorials. Thank you! In addition to the mailing list which reaches 119 worldwide countries, this April issue is being sent out to eight global conferences.
We have valued media partnerships with a range of conference organisers within the lubricants industry which we work hard to maintain, and are also constantly on the lookout to acquire new media partners with which to create mutually beneficial relationships. All of this means that LUBE is an excellent medium through which a company can reach a greater number of potential customers and clients within their respective target markets.
Please note that we have improved LUBE’s reader experience by providing online access to the Lube-Techs, Local Reports, Lube Archive (all back issues now available) as well as Lube Library (search tool for all content). In addition, back copies are available to order via the Back Issue Order Form.
The editorial and advertising schedule has now been updated to include article topics up to the year 2020, as you can see here, laying the ground work for future editions of LUBE for several years to come. Please take a look
www.lube-media.com/schedule
I look forward to meeting our readers at the 2017 UNITI Mineral Oil Technology Congress in Stuttgart in April as well as the 29th ELGI AGM in Helsinki in May.
If you would like to contact me please do
suzy@ukla.org.uk
Suzy Jarman Editor Accreditation Amendment
Please note that the February 2017 Lube-Tech supplied by Jet-Lube was originally presented at the ELGI AGM 2016. We are sorry for the oversight in crediting this conference accordingly in Issue 137.
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