Cutting oils on a bio-based basis

Zeller+Gmelin has been taking many of the factors that make up sustainable cutting oils into account for years. The trend in new developments is increasingly moving towards base oils that deliberately do without fossil resources and instead integrate renewable raw materials into the formulations. The formulation of products that enable long process runtimes with a high resistance to oxidation and ageing, among other things, are also an opportunity to realize sustainability in cooling lubricants.

Furthermore, in cooperation with the company Südöl Umwelt Service (100% subsidiary of Zeller+Gmelin), cutting oils can be subjected to a recycling process so that important raw materials can be recovered and reused. However, today it is not only performance and cost-effectiveness that play an important role, but also the CO2 footprint of the products, the so-called Product Carbon Footprint (PCF). This can also be significantly optimized through the use of modern, bio-based base oils.

This was the basis for our new product family: Multicut FSB.

FSB stands for formulated on sustainable base, i.e. for products that use a bio-based formulation to achieve an improved carbon footprint compared to a similar fossil-based formulation. When selecting all recipe ingredients, care is also taken to consider the PCF of each raw material used in the overall assessment so that this can also have a positive impact on the CO2 balance.

The products that are created on this basis score points not only in terms of PCF and sustainability, but also in terms of performance. Because performance and ecological responsibility are not a contradiction, but go hand in hand. Finally, Multicut FSB cutting oils are characterized by a very low foaming tendency, higher flash points, low evaporation losses, a low pour point and a high viscosity index.

As Versteher + Löser, we want to develop customized lubricants for our customers and further strengthen our portfolio of non-water-miscible cooling lubricants.