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COMPRESSOR LUBRICANTS OVERVIEW

Compressor Lubricants are a family of high performance lubricants that consist of white mineral oil, viscosity improvers and lubricity packages. The oils are designed to lubricate under extreme conditions of pressure, temperature and in the presence of supercritical ethylene gas.

APPLICATIONS

Compressor Lubricants are applied in primary, booster, and hyper compressors in LDPE plants world wide. Since their original development, Sonneborn has successfully introduced four new generations of compressor lubricants. Each successive generation combining proven technology with the benefits of the latest developments.

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

  • Proven performance: Used for decades in virtually every possible compressor configuration, our compressor lubricant’s high performance enables extremely long life times of packing sets.

  • Suitable for any product grade: Sonneborn Compressor Lubricants are designed not to affect any properties of the plastic end-product. Therefore they can be used in production of all co-polymers, food and pharmaceutical grades, wire and cable, coatings and printable plastic.

  • Food grade: In order to comply with the highest standards, Sonneborn’s Compressor Lubricants meet the requirements of the European Directive for plastic materials intended to come into contact with foodstuffs.