Industrial Lubricants

Castrol offer a comprehensive range of world-class chain lubricants and product support services designed to help you achieve proven performance in your manufacturing environment through:

• Longer chain life
• Optimum chain performance
• Extended maintenance intervals
• Increased productivity
• Decreased maintenance costs
• Lower overall lubricant consumption and waste

From multi-service to specialist chain lines, Castrol has the right chain oil for all applications, suitable for different environmental conditions such as:
High temperatures – Designed to perform and keep performing at high temperatures.

• Castrol Viscogen
• Castrol Tribol

Dusty environments – Designed to extend chain life by better penetration into the working parts of the chain.

• Castrol Molub Alloy

Wet and corrosive applications – Designed to be insoluble in water and resistant to different types of chemicals such as detergents.

• Castrol Viscogen

E-coat processes or cathodic electrode position applications – Helps minimise contamination and lubricant related “fish eyes” and craters.

• Castrol Tribol

Castrol offers you a comprehensive range of world-class gear oils and product support services that will help you to:

• Prolong gear life
• Obtain optimum gear performance
• Extend maintenance intervals
• Boost productivity
• Lower maintenance costs
• Reduce overall consumption and waste

Castrol gear oils have been formulated using the latest thinking in raw materials and then rigorously tested in both laboratory and manufacturing conditions, in close collaboration with leading gear and machinery manufacturers.

From conventional sulphur-phosphorus to high performance products, Castrol’s complete range of gear oil solutions include:

• Castrol Alpha SP – Formulated to provide all-round performance and good anti-scuff protection in enclosed gear drives.
• Castrol Molub-Alloy – Recommended for spur, helical, herringbone and straight or spiral bevel gears.
• Castrol Alphasyn T – Offers good thermal stability and resistance to oxidation.
• Castrol Alphasyn EP – Offers good protection against micro-pitting, good thermal and oxidative stability, good load carrying abilities and high corrosion resistance.
• Castrol Alphasyn PG – Extreme pressure gear oil that provides high load carrying capacity and good wear protection.
• Castrol Optigear BM – Reduces issues such as abrasion, surface fatigue (pitting) and micropitting or problems in the running-in phase.
• Castrol Tribol 1100 – Incorporates the Tribol Gear Oil Additive (TGOA) system, which represents a significant advancement in gear oil technology. The results of TGOA lead to surface roughness gradually being levelled and smoothed.
• Castrol Tribol 800 – Developed for application in highly loaded gears and bearings, even when subjected to difficult operating conditions.
• Castrol Optigear Synthetic X – Offers optimum wear protection under extreme loads and operating conditions such as vibrations, oscillating motions and shock loads.

Castrol offer a comprehensive range of Industrial Greases to provide advanced protection for your capital intensive equipment. We can ensure that your equipment runs reliably by helping you to achieve:

• Longer bearing life
• Optimum bearing performance
• Extended maintenance intervals
• Increased productivity
• Decreased maintenance costs
• Lower overall grease consumption and waste

Our greases range from conventional to high performance and are suitable for almost any application, so you can choose the best products to suit your needs from the following: Multi-purpose (MP) – Provides a good all-round performance in a wide variety of applications.

• Castrol Spheerol

Multi-purpose High Performance (MP-HP) – Suitable for the most severe applications, offering you increased security and peace-of-mind.

• Castrol Molub-Alloy
• Castrol Longtime
• Castrol Optipit
• Castrol Tribol

High Temperature (HT) – Designed to withstand the most severe conditions. Fully synthetic and thermally stable for increased maintenance and maximum performance.

• Castrol Firetemp
• Castrol Inertox Heavy
• Castrol Molub-Alloy

Open Gear (OG) – Divided into two categories: semi-dry working film (metallic soap) and semi-fluid gel (non soap).

• Castrol Molub-Alloy

Castrol offers you a comprehensive range of world-class spindle oils and product support services designed to help you achieve:

• Longer spindle bearing life
• Optimum performance
• Extended maintenance intervals
• Increased productivity
• Decreased maintenance costs
• Lower overall waste

Effective lubrication is vital to help protect spindle bearings from tribological processes and wear that cause machines to fail. So Castrol has produced a range of high-performance oils that include:

• Hyspin Spindle Oil – Based on highly refined mineral oil, enhanced with rust and oxidation inhibitors and formulated specially for the lubrication of high speed and precision machine tool spindle bearings.
• Hyspin Spindle Oil ZZ – The Castrol Hyspin Spindle Oil ZZ range of oils is based on a carefully selected ashless (zinc free) additive system designed to meet and exceed the most exacting performance standards.
• Castrol Hyspin Spindle Oil ZZ is suitable for all types of high speed spindle bearings (including textiles) and can be used in certain hydraulic systems.

Castrol offers you a comprehensive range of world-class hydraulic oils and product support services that will help you to:

• Prolong the life of hydraulic systems
• Attain optimum hydraulic system performance
• Extend maintenance intervals
• Boost productivity
• Lower maintenance costs
• Reduce overall consumption and waste

Our hydraulic oils range from conventional mineral oil to synthetic and fire resistant, so you can choose the right product for the job, across all your operations:

Castrol Hyspin VG – Designed for use in hydraulic systems that do not require anti-wear performance but where rust and oxidation resistance is desirable.

Castrol Hyspin AWS – Designed for use in most industrial hydraulic systems which require anti-wear protection and has excellent hydrolytic and oxidative stability.

Castrol Hyspin AWH-M – Contains a shear stable additive system which helps maintain the viscosity characteristics over a wide temperature range, even during prolonged use.

Castrol Hyspin ZZ – Particularly suitable for hydraulic systems using vane and piston pumps where elevated operating temperatures are encountered.

Castrol Hyspin HVI – Designed to meet and exceed the toughest performance standards, this range is intended for severely stressed hydraulic systems requiring a high level of anti-wear performance.

Castrol Carelube HES – Used as a hydraulic oil for applications in environmentally sensitive areas.

Castrol Tribol 943 AW – Specifically developed for service in advanced numerically controlled (NC) hydraulic systems, including robotics.

Castrol offers you a comprehensive range of world-class Fire Resistant Hydraulic Fluids (FRHF) and product support services that will help you to:

• Minimise the risk and consequences of a fire resulting from fluid escaping a hydraulic system
• Prolong the life of hydraulic systems
• Obtain optimum hydraulic system performance
• Extend maintenance intervals
• Boost productivity
• Lower maintenance costs
• Reduce overall consumption and waste

The Castrol FRHF range has been formulated using the latest thinking in raw materials and then rigorously tested in both laboratory and manufacturing conditions, in close collaboration with leading hydraulic and machinery manufacturers. From moderate to low fire risks, we have a product to meet your needs:

Castrol Anvol WG 46 – This water glycol fire resistant hydraulic fluid (ISO 6743-4 HFC type) is designed for systems with pressures up to 5,000 psi, with good anti-wear performance demonstrated by low pump wear rates compared with other similar products. It meets the fire resistance performance requirements of 7th Luxembourg Report and FM Global 6930.

Castrol Anvol SWX FM – This range of polyol ester fire resistant hydraulic fluids (ISO 6743-4 HFDU type) are ideal for applications requiring a high degree of lubricity and fire resistance.

Castrol Anvol SWX FM are FM Global 6930 approved (FM Standard 6930 Jan 2002 Group 1) products and are outstanding in their category in providing a safe working environment and improved system reliability. Formulated to work in high pressure hydraulic systems up to 7,500 psi, Castrol Anvol SWX FM provides all types of hydraulic pumps with protection against wear equivalent to that of mineral oils.

Castrol offers you a comprehensive range of world-class slideway lubricants and product support services that will help you to:

• Prolong way life
• Extend maintenance intervals
• Boost productivity
• Lower maintenance costs
• Reduce overall consumption and waste

We can provide slideways for almost all applications including conventional, emulsifiable, low friction and high shock loaded. Castrol Magna GC, Castrol Magna BD, Castrol Magna CF - Formulated to provide all-round performance with good stick-slip and load carrying capabilities.

• Good lubricity – prevents stick-slip of slideways
• High load carrying capacity – prevents wear of highly loaded slideways
• Good demulsification and cutting fluid compatibility – can be used in the presence of water or water based metalworking fluids

Castrol Magnaglide D - Formulated to provide enhanced performance with excellent stick-slip qualities and compatibility with water based metalworking fluids.

• Excellent lubricity – prevents stick-slip of slideways
• Good load carrying capacity – prevents wear of highly loaded slideways
• Excellent demulsification and cutting fluid compatibility – can be used in the presence of water or water based metalworking fluids

Castrol Tribol MWO LS - Designed for lubrication of machine tool slides and ways, but can also be used for many other applications such as chains, wire ropes, plain and anti-friction bearings, and translating screws.

• Excellent lubricity – prevents stick-slip of slideways
• Superb load carrying capacity – prevents wear of highly loaded slideways
• Non-drip nature – can reduce staining and therefore help avoid production and housekeeping problems

Castrol Tribol 1066 - Designed to produce a lubricant allowing superb stick-slip properties and rapid water separation.

• Outstanding demulsification properties – prolongs coolant life
• Excellent lubricity – prevents stick-slip, resulting in higher quality output, fewer rejects and reduced operating costs
• Advanced corrosion protection – reduces metal deterioration

Castrol offers you a comprehensive range of world-class compressor oils and product support services. We offer you superior products for rotary screw and reciprocating compressors, ranging from small single units to very large capacity, multi-stage configurations.

Depending on the application, these are based on mineral or synthetic fluids.

Castrol Aircol PD – Highly refined mineral oils and an ashless additive system for the lubrication of rotors, bearings and gears in rotary compressors, especially the oil flooded screw type with lubricant drain cycles of up to 2000 hours.

Castrol Aircol SR – Based on polyalphaolefin (PAO) fluids, suitable for use in oil flooded rotary screw compressors operating under extreme climatic conditions, harsh environments and severe operating conditions.

Castrol Tribol 890 – Fully synthetic ester based lubricants designed to meet the lubrication needs of the most demanding air compressor applications.

Description
A superior friction reducing straight weight engine oil for extended drain service for industrial/commercial and rolling stock applications.

Features

• Contains DIMONYL
• High VI solvent extracted paraffinic base stocks
• Exceeds most major engine manufacturers recommendations
• Contains detergent/dispersants
• Oxidation inhibitors
• Rust and corrosion inhibitors
• Anti-foam inhibitor
• Pour depressant
• Anti-wear inhibitors

Customer benefits

• Long drain service up to 100,000 miles or 600 hours with LOA Program
• Superior friction reduction, cooler operating temperatures, reduced friction and drag, improved fuel economy, and lower octane fuel needed
• Exceeds most engine manufacturers specifications and recommendations, so it's one oil for most applications

Primary market

• Trucking Industry
• Construction
• Agriculture
• Municipal fleets

Applications

• Detroit Diesel engines (trucking and marine)
• Over the road trucking
• Heavy equipment
• Stationary engines (irrigation, oil field service, etc.)

Description
Multi-purpose gear lubricant for most manual gear boxes, stationary industrial or rolling stock.

Features

• API GL-5 and MT-1 rated lubricant
• Exceeds military specifications MIL-PRF-2105E
• Oxidation, rust and corrosion inhibitors
• Anti-catalyst and anti-foam inhibitor
• Anti-wear inhibitors and extreme pressure (EP) additive
• Adhesive/cohesive characteristics for climbing action
• Pour point depressant
• Limited slip characteristics

Customer benefits

• Reduces gear oil consumption as much as 50-75%
• Improves equipment performance life, drops operating temperatures 8-18% (29-72øF or 0-22øC)
• Eliminates dry starts
• Decreases unscheduled downtime
• High temperature stability for outstanding wear control and cleanliness
• Energy savings (electrical/fuel)

Primary markets

• Construction
• Dairies (milk processing)
• Crane and crane rental operations
• Post offices
• Local trucking

Applications

• Industrial gear boxes
• Standard shift transmissions
• Differentials