SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants are used in a wide variety of applications. They provide superior lubricity, cleanliness and stability over conventional oils and lubricants.

Select an application to learn more:
Gear Oils
Metalworking Fluids
Compressors
Mill & Calender Lubricants
Two-Stroke Engines
Hydraulic Fluids
Greases
Mold Release and Mandrel Lubricants


Gear Oils
Excellent friction modification properties coupled with high thermal stability and high viscosity index make SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants the right choice as base stocks for gear oils, especially for worm gears and gears sealed for life. Polyglycols provide the highest energy efficiency in gear oil applications.
Also see UCON™ Fluids.

Metalworking Fluids
Water soluble SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants are successfully used by formulators as the lubricity base for water soluble cutting and grinding fluids. Heat generated at a cutting tip or other machine tool can cause the polyglycol to come out of solution (inverse solubility) onto the metal surface providing a neat lubricant film. SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants are also used as lubricants in forming operations, such as drawing, stamping, and rolling.
Also see UCON™ Fluids. DOW Polypropylene Glycols are also used in metalworking in North America, Latin America and Europe.

Compressors
SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants are used extensively as base fluids for compressor lubricants in various applications such as ethylene, natural gas, hydrogen, vinyl chloride, ammonia, helium and nitrogen. The success of SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants in such applications is due to their adaptable solubility properties, excellent lubricity, high thermal stability and resistance to sludge and varnish formation.
Also see UCON™ Fluids.

Mill & Calender Lubricants
SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants are the preferred lubricant base stocks for high temperature, large-scale mills and calenders employed in the rubber, textile, paper, and plastic industries, due to their ashless burning characteristics coupled with high temperature stability and excellent lubrication properties.
Also see UCON™ Fluids.

Two-Stroke Engines
Water insoluble SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants are uniquely adapted for use with air cooled two-stroke engines. The clean burn-off characteristics of SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants virtually eliminate engine problems related to spark plug fouling, exhaust port plugging, and combustion chamber deposits. SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants are the preferred lubricant base stock for model engines.
Also see UCON™ Fluids.

Hydraulic Fluids
SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants feature excellent lubricity and performance characteristics for use as industrial hydraulic fluids for equipment that must operate over a wide temperature range such as year-round outdoor use or high temperature applications. Specific SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants feature improved environmental properties (biodegradation and aquatic toxicity) over standard petroleum based fluids.
Also see UCON™ Fluids. In Europe, see Dow Polypropylene Glycols and Copolymers

Greases
Superior greases can be made with SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants . These greases, highly adaptable for the extreme applications of high and low temperature — as well as for standard uses, are characterized by the excellent properties of the base fluid. The solubility range of SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants permits the formulation of water soluble or hydrocarbon-resistant greases.
Also see UCON™ Fluids.

Mold Release and Mandrel Lubricants
SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants , with their negligible solvent and swelling effects on most natural and synthetic rubber compositions, as well as their excellent lubricity, are ideally suited as anti-stick, coating, and parting agents for the rubber industry. Water soluble SYNALOX™ Fluids & Lubricants are especially used, as they can be easily rinsed off with water.

 


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