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Customers of Quaker Houghton
have been asking for fluids that can
do both gross metal removal and
fine machine operations. "Those two
things tend to be rather antagonistic
toward each other," Kosalko said.
"Nevertheless, we see a desire for it. It's
something that can remove a bunch of
metal, but also, in the same product,
do a honing operation. That's very
challenging and quite demanding for a
fluid. We have several ongoing studies
right now looking at that."
Nonfood Base Oils
Among the current initiatives of
Zschimmer & Schwarz has been an
exploration of creating base oils from
nonfood plants. The company recently
built a new North American plant
and has become heavily invested in
synthetic esters, said Tyler Housel,
head of the Lexolube division.
"That's our main manufacturing
business," he said. "In terms of
technology, we've got some interest in
higher-performance types of products
- higher performance in terms of
oxidation stability, high-temperature
performance, long-life lubricants,
things like that."
Making the best ester requires
both basic knowledge of how to put
it together and the right feedstocks,
Housel said. "We're always looking for
feedstocks that help us get even better
performance from the portfolio we
have," he said. "We're in the process of
getting a patent from combining aromatic esters and polyol esters to make
extremely good high-temperature
lubricants. That's one of the exciting
things we've got going on."
Bio-based materials have always
come from different sources, although
historically the bulk of them have
come from animal-based fats and oils,
but plant-based materials have been
gaining momentum, Housel said. "The
plant-based raw material portion of
that could be from ... soybeans or palm
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"Still emerging is nonfood, bio-based, plantbased materials that we wouldn't necessarily
use as the lubricant base itself, but use the fatty
acids from those to make synthetic esters."
Tyler Housel, Lexolube division head, Zschimmer & Schwarz
or a little bit of olive oil, feedstocks
that could be food sources," he said.
"Still emerging is nonfood, bio-based,
plant-based materials that we wouldn't
necessarily use as the lubricant base
itself, but use the fatty acids from those
to make synthetic esters." Castor oil
could be one example.
The use of nonfood sources is helping companies comply with tighter
European Union regulations around
"things they consider bio-favorable,"
Housel said. "It's always a challenge
because when you think about the
industry that supplies the fatty acids
and where we get our fatty acids from,
it has always been a side stream from
the food industry."
Lubricants are a smaller consumer
of those food-based materials, using
probably 1% of the crop, but thanks to
other industries' much heavier usage, the
materials have always been readily available, widely commercially produced and
relatively inexpensive. "When you start
to get into the nonfood fatty acids -
why are they being produced?" he asked.
"You go to a meeting, and you hear
people talk about some of these nonfood
things going into lubricants, and the
question is, 'Where is the infrastructure
coming from?'"
If the lubricants industry needs
1,000 tons of a certain fatty acid and
the industry is the main consumer of
it, lubricant companies would need
to set up the infrastructure, Housel
said. "The difficulty in some of these
nonfood production streams is that
nobody is growing these crops right
now," he said. "There really isn't any
reason to grow these crops unless you
want to get these raw materials. You
might be making a two-, three-, fiveyear investment. ... To get someone to
put up $50 million for a product that
will be produced in 2025 - that's
a challenge."
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ILMA Compoundings – December 2019
LETTER FROM THE CEO
INSIDE ILMA
WHAT’S COMING UP
NEW MEMBERS
INDUSTRY RUNDOWN
In the Know
International Insight
Market Report
PEERING INTO THE FUTURE
BREEDING PERFORMANCE
IT’S IN THE DETAILS
BUSINESS HUB
COUNSEL COMPOUND
WASHINGTON LANDSCAPE
IN NETWORK
Member Connections
Cross Connections
PORTRAIT
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - Cover1
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - Cover2
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 1
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 2
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - LETTER FROM THE CEO
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - INSIDE ILMA
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 5
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - WHAT’S COMING UP
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - NEW MEMBERS
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - INDUSTRY RUNDOWN
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - In the Know
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - International Insight
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 11
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - Market Report
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 13
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - PEERING INTO THE FUTURE
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 15
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 16
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 17
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - BREEDING PERFORMANCE
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 19
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 20
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 21
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - IT’S IN THE DETAILS
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ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - BUSINESS HUB
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 27
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - COUNSEL COMPOUND
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 29
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - WASHINGTON LANDSCAPE
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 31
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - Member Connections
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 33
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - Cross Connections
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - 35
ILMA Compoundings – December 2019 - PORTRAIT
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