We offer automotive lubricants. For many of a vehicles components, the lubricant plays a vital role as a design element. Because wherever there is relative motion between machine components in contact, specialty lubricants reduce wear and tear, alleviate friction and enhance the functioning of the component concerned. Klüber Lubrication accordingly prioritizes close cooperation between the component and lubricant producers whenever new development work is involved. With tribological solutions individually tailored to its customers needs, Klüber Lubrication helps them to optimize their products, to create or enhance an innovative lead over their competitors, to upgrade their productivity levels and not least to cut their costs.

Concept Capability

You will find Klübers lubricants in almost every part of an automobile, doing an excellent job the whole world over, a claim corroborated by a multiplicity of approvals from almost all automakers and their component suppliers. If the existing range of several thousand Klüber products happens not to include the precise lubricant thats currently needed, then Klüber Lubrication joins forces with the customer to develop a new solution precisely tailored to the specific requirements concerned. On more than 100 test stations, Klübers lubricants are tested to their limits and beyond. The test results serve as the basic data for selecting the optimum lubricant, a choice that the customer can verify by observing individual component trials in Klübers own test laboratory.

Current concepts/ technologies

Being faster than others when it comes to research, development and testing that means answering tomorrows questions today. Klüber Lubrication is accordingly committed to early cooperation with vehicle and component manufacturers, and is continually expanding its comprehensive range of products. Specialty lubricants from Klüber have proved their capabilities in series production for brakes, steering systems, axles, C.V. joints, motors, gear shifts, clutches, electrics, passenger compartments, locks, window lifters, sliding roofs, seats, safety belts, profile seals, etc. Klübers specialty lubricants for vehicle components are designed for lifetime lubrication at high and low temperatures, to be compatible with plastics and elastomers, odour-neutral and fogging-tested, resistant to media like petrol, brake fluid, blow-by gases, and much, much more. In many applications, conventional types of lubricant (greases, oils or pastes) are able to meet the requirements involved to optimum effect. In cars, however, dry lubricants such as bonded coatings are an increasingly preferred alternative to wet lubricants. In car passenger compartments, particularly, there is a growing trend towards replacing greases and oils by different lubricating solutions, so as to prevent any possible contact between the vehicles occupants and these lubricants, as well as countering odour problems. Dry lubricants do not emit any odours, and are thus neutral in respect to the interior climate. Yet another plus is that their properties change hardly at all over time.

Klübers solutions for topical lubricant issues include:

• Bonded coatings for profile seals, ensuring a soft-feel effect and contributing to improved function,
• Specialty lubricants for new generations of ball joints, helping to meet the requirements generated by increased loads and limited space,
• Specialty lubricating greases for small-size gear units, ensuring that window lifters and windscreen wiper motors function dependably even at temperatures well below zero or in highly corrosive environments,
• Specialty lubricating greases, contributing towards optimum sound absorption and mechanical d