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	SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL LUBRICANTS
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In ’65 some physical-chemical engineers, awakened to continuous technical progress in the machinery for industrial production, decided a research in a field of special lubricants applied to the industrial maintenance. Leaving from the known bases on the friction, wear and deformation of the interested metal, concluded, after some years, their search, formulating a series of new products based of the improvements of the current standard. With new formulas, new additives and partially changing and transforming in applications the theoretical known basis born a new solid and liquid lubricants, based on the principles of TRIBOLOGY which deals specifically with problems related to the static-free contact of two interdependent surfaces. In effect, examined under a microscope, every working metallic surface, also if perfectly even, takes on the rugged appearance that metallurgist and other specialists call lunar landscape. When a lubricant film is ruptured (cause derived by a lot of situations like : heavy shock load, high temperature, cold starting), contacting surfaces cannot be separated and opposing asperities interlock. All this causes a destruction, the peaks fracture repeatedly under the forces of equipment operation. An irreversible sequence of destructive wear begins. Uncontrolled friction generates excessive heat and wear besides squandering energy. For the maintenance department this means premature parts failure, frequent and expensive repairs, costly unscheduled downtime and needlessly high energy bills.
On the matter, it need to remember that over the 20% of the world’s energy production is consumed in overcoming friction.
The objectives of the lubrication are:
- Reduce friction
- Reduce wear
- Carry away heat between the separation of the working surfaces with a film of oil.

SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL LUBRICANTS
In the normal terminology, lubricants can be divided into :

greases
oils

However this terminology is insufficient and generic. For the high complexity of the modern machinery are needed "special lubricants" to extend lube cycles, to extend the life of wear parts, to minimize the repairs time and the hours spent in unscheduled maintenance.