Zeller+Gmelin has been taking many of the factors that make up sustainable cutting oils into account for years. For example, the trend in new developments is increasingly toward base oils that deliberately avoid fossil resources and instead integrate renewable raw materials into the formulations. The formulation of products that, among other things, enable long process runtimes with high oxidation and aging resistance, 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 are recovered and reused. However, today not only performance and economy 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 achieve an improved CO2 balance through a biobased formulation compared with a comparable fossil formulation. When selecting all formulation components, care is also taken to consider the PCF of each raw material used in the overall consideration, so that this can also flow positively into the CO2 balance.
However, the products that are created on the basis of this not only score in terms of PCF and sustainability, but also in terms of performance. After all, performance and ecological responsibility are not a contradiction, but go hand in hand. After all, the Multicut FSB cutting oils are characterized, among other things, 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 thus aim to develop tailor-made lubricants for our customers and further strengthen our portfolio of non-water-miscible cooling lubricants.