• Steel Plant Specialities LLP

Forging Lubricant

Steel Plant Specialities offers a Forging Lubricant, Espon-GLF3, to increase hot forging die life by up to 100% or more. Hot forging involves plastic forming of heated metals and alloys into desired shapes. In a forge shop, die cost amounts to 10% to 15% of the forging cost. Any increase in the die life automatically increases the profitability of the forge shop. Lubricants play three important roles: reduction in forging load; uniformity in metal flow; and prevention of sticking of forged material to the die. All these factors lead to increased die life. The company manufactures a range of innovative die lubricants as per the needs of the forging industry. Espon-GLF3 is a graphiteless, water soluble lubricant. Benefits of using this lubricant are: improved die life (more than 100% as confirmed by customers); zero pollution without any additional capital equipment; environment protection; and reduced forging cost. Facilities exist to develop customised lubricants for forging steel, aluminium, copper and brass. The same firm has developed special anti-scale compound that prevents component rejections during heat treatment. All these products are found useful by a large number of forge shops in India.