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Biodegradable Hydraulic Fluids Prove Beneficial - Fire Resistance a Plus
In 2000, Houghton International formulated a fire-resistant vegetable oil hydraulic fluid – Cosmolubric B-230. This technology made it affordable for manufacturers to switch to a biodegradable,...
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Improving Chain Lubrication
The majority of chains used in industry suffer unnecessarily short lives. This leads many companies to forego chains all together and replace them with belts. In most cases, however, the problem is not...
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Optimizing Food Plant Efficiency and Safety - Opportunities for Synthetic...
To improve safety initiatives and optimize plant efficiency, food processors need to focus on two main areas: processing equipment and lubricants. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are helping...
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Switching to Food-grade Lubricants - Provides Safety Solution
The use of high-performance mineral oil and synthetic-based food-grade lubricants to maintain the equipment used in food and beverage manufacturing facilities, a common practice overseas, is gaining...
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Making Good Environmental Choices for Lubricants
The environmental impact of hydroelectric power stations is becoming increasingly important. In the past, the main focus has been on the physical structures of the dam, how it fits into the...
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Food Lubricant Safety Audits - Is Your Facility Long Overdue?
Food processors are constantly trying to maintain hygienic operating facilities while optimizing productivity. To help processors meet their business goals, lubricant manufacturers are establishing...
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What You Need to Know About Food-grade Lubricants
What's required for food-grade lubricants, and what isn't? Winding your way through the labyrinth of regulations and registrations that impact nonfood compounds, such as lubricants, can be tedious....
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Soybean Oil Offers High Performance, Low Environmental Impact
Using plant-derived oils like soybean oil as a form of lubrication is nothing new to companies that operate and maintain machinery. The idea of using soy as a replacement for petroleum has been around...
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How to Make Your Food or Beverage Facility Successful
Food-grade, food-plant, NSF certified, FDA listed, USDA registered - the list of lubricant terms is endless. Sifting through the terminology, standards and best practices for properly lubricating...
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Food-grade Greases
Food-grade greases are used in various food-processing equipment and other industrial equipment applications. These include plain and rolling element bearings, joints, linkages and slides, centralized...
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Soy Lubricants Answer the Call For Safer Products
Soy-based lubricants offer an alternative to traditional petroleum-based oils and greases in the marketplace. With funding support from the United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff, a U.S....
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Improving Oven Chain Lubrication
Chains operating at high temperatures can be lubricated in two different ways: with a liquid lubricant, or with a solid lubricant suspended in a carrier fluid. Whether solid or liquid, the lubricating...
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The Basics of Food-grade Lubricants
The food processing industry presents unique challenges to lubricant formulation engineers, lubricant marketers, plant lubrication engineers and equipment designers. While it is never desirable for...
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Water-removal Solution Brings Sweet Savings to Cane Processor
Central Azucarera de La Carlota Inc. (CACI) is a 93-year-old sugar cane processing company based in Negros Occidental in the Philippines. Recently, the company has been under pressure to improve...
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Food Grade Lubricant Selection
Gaining Peace of Mind While Increasing Safety and Efficiency In Your Food PlantThere are many things to think about when running a food-manufacturing business, and concern over lubricants should not be...
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What You Need to Know About ISO 21469 and Food Safety
For food and beverage producers, pharmaceuticals manufacturers, and producers of containers used to package food-related products, there’s no more important lubrication issue than the use of what are...
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CRC Introduces its Food Processing Safe Products
CRC introduces its line of Food Processing Safe lubricants, cleaners and degreasers. Access this 2-minute, 22-second video by clicking on the link below.
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Food-grade Lubricants and Their Place in the HACCP Program
For a food, beverage, cosmetic or pharmaceutical company, or any other firm that manufactures products that will be directly consumed or used by people, processes must be highly scrutinized for...
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Ultrachem Offers Omnilube Line of Food-grade Synthetic Oils and Greases
The Omnilube family of lubricants from Ultrachem Inc. is a complete line of premium-quality food-grade synthetic oils and greases for incidental food contact that are specially designed for reduced...
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Case Study: Pizza Plant Goes All In
"There’s opportunity in poker. ... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn’t be ‘Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.’ Instead, he’d point to that deck of cards on the table...
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Fuchs Acquires Food-grade Lubricants Business from Shell
Fuchs Petrolub AG, based in Mannheim, Germany, which develops, blends and markets lubricants, has, with effect from October 1, 2010, acquired the worldwide food-grade specialty lubricants business of...
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Ultrachem Updates Online Resource on Synthetic Lubricants
Ultrachem Inc. has updated its online synthetic lubricant resource guide at www.ultracheminc.com to include new information on food-grade, high-pressure and gas compression lubricants. An extensive...
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New Conveyor Lubricant Released by Ecolab
Ecolab Inc. recently introduced DryExx® GF, a new conveyor lubricant specifically designed for use with glass bottles on steel conveyor belts. According to Ecolab, DryExx GF saves up to 80 percent of...
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Switching to H1 Food-grade Lubricants
"I work in a food environment, and our health and safety officer has suggested we switch to H1 food-grade lubricants? Is this a sound decision?" If this is taken to its logical conclusion, all...
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Ultrachem Food-Grade Lubricants Certified to Halal Standards
Ultrachem Inc. has received certification that the company's food-grade synthetic lubricants, oils and greases meet the requirements of halal certification as established by the Islamic Food and...
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Klüber Lubrication Introduces Hydraulic Oil for Injection Molding Reservoirs
Klüber Lubrication has introduced Klüberfood 4 NH1-46, the only NSF H1-registered fully synthetic hydraulic oil that is approved for use on Husky injection molding equipment. Compared with mineral...
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Inolex Synthetic Esters Approved by Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Eight Inolex Lexolube synthetic esters were recently approved for use in food-processing applications by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The approved products appear in the official CFIA...
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ELM to Offer Contract Blending of Greases and Lubricants
Environmental Lubricants Manufacturing Inc. (ELM) recently announced its decision to offer contract blending and packaging services to the industry in addition to handling the manufacturing for its...
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Advantages of Food-grade Lubricants
"My question concerns the use of food-grade lubricants in enclosed helical and helical-bevel gearing that is primarily splash lubricated. Normally, we specify ISO VG 220 EP lubricants for this type of...
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Emerald Additives Get NSF HX-1 Listing
Emerald Polymer Additives recently announced that two of its antioxidants have received the NSF HX-1 listing, allowing for their use as ingredients in lubricants with incidental food contact....
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Metcar Grade M-58 Approved for Food Contact Applications
Metallized Carbon Corporation's Metcar Grade M-58 recently received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), allowing it to be used in food contact applications such as dry-running food...
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Fuchs Facility Earns ISO Certification
Fuchs Lubricants Co. recently announced that its Kansas City, Kan., facility has received ISO 21469 certification by NSF International. ISO 21469 is the most comprehensive safety standard for...
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Bel-Ray Food-Grade Lubricant Approved for Clean Industry Applications
Bel-Ray's No-Tox Food Grade Dry PTFE Spray recently received NSF-H1 approval for use in "clean industry" applications. The new multi-purpose, dry-film lubricant meets FDA requirements for incidental...
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Quaker Obtains Food-Grade Certification
Quaker Chemical Corporation recently received H1 certification for Quakerol PCL-FG, a high-performance, food-grade synthetic lubricant formulated for use on pin chains in the can manufacturing...
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Sprayon Introduces New Food-Grade Low-Temperature Lubricant
Sprayon Products recently introduced the LU 214 food-grade low-temperature lubricant as part of its expanded line of NSF H1-rated food-grade lubricants. A multi-service lubricant designed for extended...
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Sprayon Introduces New Food-Grade Chain Lubricant
Sprayon Products recently introduced the LU 205 Food-Grade Chain Lubricant as part of its expanded line of NSF H1-rated food-grade lubricants. The new lubricant features a blend of high-quality...
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Sprayon Unveils New Food-Grade Synthetic Grease
Sprayon Products recently introduced the new LU 207 Food-Grade Synthetic Grease as part of its expanded line of NSF H1-rated food-grade lubricants. The new grease is a pure synthetic multi-service,...
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Spectronics Oil-Glo Series Dyes Receive Food-Grade Certification
Spectronics Corporation recently announced that its Oil-Glo Series fluorescent dyes have been NSF certified and registered to meet food-grade processing requirements for category codes HTX-2 and HX-2,...
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Calumet Unveils Food-grade Lubricants
Calumet Packaging recently introduced a new line of high-performance food-grade lubricants. In addition to being compliant with all food, health and safety regulations, Calumet's Ultra F line of...
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What You Should Know About Food-grade Lubricants
There are few certainties in life, but one of them is that lubricants leak. Regardless of how much effort is made to guard against leakage, it still occurs. In many industries, this isn’t necessarily...
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Metallized Carbon Corp.'s Metcar Grade M-133 Receives NSF Approval
Metallized Carbon Corp.'s Metcar Grade M-133 recently received approval by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), allowing it to be used for materials employed in the construction of commercial...
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SKF Launches New Food-grade Lubricants
SKF recently launched a range of food-grade lubricants to increase reliability and safety of applications in the food and beverage industry. The specially developed products are NSF/H1, kosher and...
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Cortec Introduces Food-grade Grease
Cortec recently introduced a new environmentally friendly lubricating and rust-preventative grease specifically formulated to meet the demands of food and meat processing plants. The EcoLine Food...
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SKF Introduces Food-grade Lubricants
SKF recently expanded its portfolio of food-grade lubricants with a range of specially formulated solutions developed for safe use in the food and beverage industry. The newly introduced lubricants are...
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Elevance Synthetic Base Stock Earns Food-Grade Certification
Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. recently announced that its high-performance synthetic base stock, Elevance Aria WTP 40, has been certified as HX-1 food grade. This certification expands upon the...
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LE Unveils New Food-grade Grease
Lubrication Engineers (LE) recently introduced its newest food-grade lubricant for use in food-manufacturing plants, especially for those applications where severe conditions such as high temperatures,...
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Hydrotex Unveils New Food-grade Lubricant
Hydrotex recently announced that it is enhancing its food-grade product line with Ultra-Kleen HyTemp1 Food Grade Blower Oil. For maintenance and reliability professionals in the food-processing...
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Nyco Introduces New Food-grade Synthetic Ester
Nyco recently introduced a new HX-1-certified multipurpose synthetic ester. Nycobase 30409 FG features high resistance to oxidation, low volatility, high viscosity index, low pour point and inherent...
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Klüber Introduces Food-grade Lubricant
Klüber Lubrication recently introduced a new food-grade lubricant to provide advanced protection for oven chains at extreme temperatures while supporting food safety. Klüberfood NH1 CH 6-120 Supreme is...
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Understanding the Changing Requirements for Food-grade Lubricants
In January 2011, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) became law in the United States. With roughly 15 percent of the U.S. food supply imported, this law was intended to strengthen the food safety...
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