NEW BASE STOCK FOR DIFFERENTIATED HIGH-PERFORMANCE SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS
The lubricants market faces growing performance challenges due to
increasing regulatory requirements across a variety of markets. This
paper reviews the latest developments in the design and development
of high-performance, bio-based lubricant building blocks and
components, key market trends, and the global impact these factors are
having on base stock choices and performance requirements. The
paper will also examine new technologies and processes to create
unique building block molecules from natural oil feedstocks. Using a
wide range of renewable oils, these unique building block molecules
enable a level of performance unavailable until now.
Renewable building blocks produced by Elevance Renewable
Sciences provide significant versatility in the design and development
of high-performance synthetic base stocks for transportation, industrial,
metalworking and grease lubricant applications. The recently
developed high-performance, bio-based synthetic base stocks show
promising results in standardized testing versus high performing base
stocks available today.