The first thing that comes to mind when talking about lubricants is, without a doubt, oil. People have been using plant and animal fat-based substances for greasing purposes for centuries. Petroleum byproducts came into the picture in the middle of the 19th-hundreds, and they are widely used today. However, fossil oil comes from finite sources. We have to look for an alternative. Secondly, oil is flammable. Thirdly, oil is expensive and pretty challenging to dispose of. The environmental impact of oil-based lubricants is indubitable.
There is a dire need for safer, cleaner, eco-friendlier, and more effective lubricant that does not deteriorate under extreme conditions.
Nanotech Industrial Solutions comes to rescue. As the brand that sets the bar in high-performance additives, Nanotech Industrial Solutions keeps revolutionizing the lubricant industry with advanced tribological packages based on Tungsten Disulfide, or WS₂, which is often referred to as the most lubricious substance on earth.
NIS has recently launched a new water-based lubricant additive that does not contain any oil. There is a common perception that water-based substances could be primarily used as coolants, have no lubricating or extreme pressure properties, and may lead to metal parts rusting. According to NIS’ CEO Dr. George Diloyan, NIS’s IW-5000 Zero-oil Water-based additive beats all odds.
“Water is the best coolant, but it is the worst lubricant. Water does not burn like oil and it is very effective when it comes to reducing the working temperatures. Introducing NIS’s proprietary submicron near-spherical particles of Inorganic Tungsten Disulfide (IF-WS₂) into water-based formulations has changed the rules of industrial lubrication and overall perception on water-based lubricants,” says Dr. Diloyan.
IW-5000 exceeds the demands and needs of the lubricant industry. On the Four-Ball EP Test (ASTM 2783), IW-5000 outperforms its commercially available oil-based competitors by far.
The same great results could be seen on the Four-Ball Coefficient of Friction and Pin-on-Disk tests.
At a much lower treat rate, IW-5000 formulation significantly reduces lubricant disposal costs. NIS’s revolutionary water-based additive can be used for a plethora of industrial applications, ranging from milling and cutting to cooling and coatings. IW-5000 dispersion gives a new way of creating water-based lubricants for the most demanding applications, such as in Mining, Wetalworking, Defence, Air and Space industries, and others. Ask us for your free sample : info@nisusacorp.com
