Delivering Aluminium Machining Safely!
ALUMINIUM
MACHINING WITHOUT COMPROMISE
Castrol Alusol XBB cutting fluids deliver precision performance in aluminium machining without compromising your productivity – or your operators’ safety. They’re ideal for multipurpose machining of aluminium alloys and low-medium alloyed steel, and suitable for both large central systems and single sump machines.
Current Challenges
Until now, aluminium cutting fluids have needed particular care and attention to keep them in good working condition – avoiding poor sump life, increased additive usage, bacterial or fungal infections, bad odours and unpleasant working environments and, ultimately, high rejection rates of machined aluminium components.
To achieve this, traditional cutting fluids contain boron and formaldehyde-releasing agents. But using these dangerous chemicals is increasingly at odds with health and safety regulations.
It’s an ongoing balancing act – one Castrol’s technical experts have overcome with XBB: a unique formulation method that prolongs the life of cutting fluids without the use of additives.
Our Solution
Castrol’s technical experts have developed a unique technology to help overcome these conflicting challenges.
Castrol Alusol SL 51 XBB has been proven to maintain pH at a constant level and assure constant productivity for longer than other standard aluminium cutting fluids*, and has been shown to neutralise up to 33% more acidic material**. So it provides an extended fluid life, meaning fewer interventions and reduced downtime.
Castrol Alusol SL 51 XBB has been shown to neutralise up to 33% more acidic material**
RESULT: based on titrating 9 fluids until a pH of 8.5 is reached
Castrol Alusol SL 51 XBB has been proven to maintain pH at a constant level and assure constant productivity for longer than other standard aluminium cutting fluids*, and has been shown to neutralise up to 33% more acidic material**. So it provides an extended fluid life, meaning fewer interventions and reduced downtime.
Castrol’s XBB technology delivers long-lasting performance, and stable operating conditions – improving your productivity – without boron or formaldehyde-releasing agents.
*proven in lab tests and seen in real production conditions
**based on titrating 9 fluids until a pH of 8.5 is reached.
In laboratory tests, Alusol SL 61 XBB was proven to maintain a stable pH up to 44% longer than other cutting fluids*, without the use of boron, formaldehyde releasing agents.
Castrol Alusol SL 61 XBB neutralises up to 44% more acidic material than conventional alternatives**. It is ideal for multipurpose machining of aluminium alloys to low-medium alloyed steel. and is suitable for both large central systems and single sump machines.
It is also designed to reduce foaming in soft water conditions.
