Steel

High productivity under the harshest conditions

Specialty lubricants used in steel production must perform effectively around the clock and under harsh operating conditions. We develop specialty lubricants for the steel industry that meet your requirements while contributing to increased plant availability.

Specialty lubricants for the entire steel production process

Steel plants must recover their high investment costs through continuous production, with minimal downtime and maintenance stops. Machines need high availability and running reliability for extended periods – yet their environment’s high temperatures and extreme loads, water, steam, and aggressive media exceed the capabilities of standard lubricants.

By contrast, our range of specialty lubricants for the entire steel production process is designed to reduce wear reliably and increases component lifetime considerably even under the harshest conditions. This improves plant availability and profitability, while reducing consumption and contributing to environmental protection.

Specialty lubricants from Klüber Lubrication are used across many steel industry applications, with the deployment areas and requirements being as diverse as the different plant and equipment types:

Coke plant reversible valves
Continuous annealing furnace
Electrolytic tin plating line (ETL)
Electrostatic precipitator

Advantages when using the right lubricant:

Higher productivity
Better cost reduction
Reduction of production stoppages; actual and planned production hours nearly or entirely the same
Extended maintenance intervals
Decreased maintenance time
Extended machine life with high reliability and availability
Greases withstand high temperatures without hardening
Increased sustainability
Improved reliability at high temperatures
Compliance with safety and environmental regulations
Less waste of lubricants
Worldwide production and distribution of specialty lubricants by Klüber Lubrication

Reduced lubricant consumption contributes to sustainable production

We strive to minimise any negative environmental impact; similarly, our lubricants and services offer you considerable potential for improving your sustainability and environmental protection. These benefits relate to lower lubricant consumption:

Reduction in CO2 emissions: We are certified according to the "International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol" (IPMVP) and the "Efficiency Valuation Organization" (EVO) regulations
Less effort and cost needed for waste water treatment, easier to prevent pollution
Neater, cleaner, and safer working environment with reduced spillage
Lower consumption of cleaning agents and water
Less lubricant wastage, less lubricant washed from machinery

Increase productivity with our specialty lubricants for continuous casting machines

Continuous casters are one of the most critical operating areas in the steel plant. A possible stoppage or segment change in these casters due to lubrication failure can lead to huge production losses or deterioration of slab quality. With our 90 years of business experience, we now have solutions for over 80 different continuous casting machines, providing precisely the lubricants needed to increase productivity. Our Klüberplex HB 98-601 lubricant, for example, is a synthetic lubricant for pipelines exposed to high temperatures:

Increased component life as this new grease always reaches the bearing, and provides better protection at high temperatures
No hardening tendency even at temperatures exceeding 250 °C
Increased productivity with fewer unplanned bearing changes
Reduced consumption of lubricant through optimal product application
Cost reduction through extended relubrication intervals

Withstand harsh conditions with our specialty grease for hot rolling mills

Hot rolling mills are subject to high loads and shocks, along with contamination from water, steam, scale and rolling oil. Manual or centralised lubrication can be used. With a -10 to 160 °C service temperature, Klüberplex BE 91-502 grease is suitable for hot rolling mills, and offers many key advantages: