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MWF Newsletter June 2011

Gulf Metalworking around the world!

Sweden, Denmark and Croatia

Hansen Racing, Sweden, DCC Denmark, Profina, Croatia are further examples of Gulf distributors who have established growing metalworking fluid businesses from a standing start.

The core Gulf Metalworking fluids range provides a comprehensive selection of high quality products, suitable for every type of material under a wide variety of operating conditions. But this doesn’t mean that we just stick to our range...Whereas most of our competitors only offer a limited range of established products, we are constantly developing new products to meet special or unusual applications, or to match a competitor’s product if it can’t be covered by something already within our range.

Technical support is at the core of our service to distributors and we strive to respond to distributors technical or product queries swiftly. Taking Sweden as an example, the volume of enquiries coming from one of Hansen Racing’s distributor customers became so large due to their enthusiasm for Gulf metalworking fluids that we agreed to deal with the customer’s technical questions directly. This arrangement has worked out really well and has enabled us to quicken response times even further.

In addition, we have seen some great success stories from Hansen Racing and their distributors. This example from Gävle-Dala Industriprodukter relates to a customer whose processes involve grinding engine tops and blocks. Their emulsion tank is placed directly on the floor and the work shop has direct floor heating, so that the floor always is +24 ^oc. This obviously created problems and it was just a matter of weeks before the emulsion was covered with a slimy carpet. Through the use of GULFCUT ULTRA LIFE for two months, the emulsion is reported as being as good as new, with excellent grinding results. The customer is very satisfied with these positive results!

It has been fantastic to see the way that the Gulf Metalworking Fluid business has developed in Sweden, Denmark and Croatia, and we congratulate Martin, Eric and Goran on their outstanding achievements.

U.K.

Gulf Lubricants UK also continues to see impressive growth in metalworking fluids sales to distributors, re-sellers and end users. Companies within the GB Oils group are increasingly finding that Gulf can provide better products and faster service when compared to their traditional branded metalworking fluid suppliers such as Houghton, Castrol and Texaco.

Gulf Lubricants UK has substantial experience in metalworking fluid products and as a result of this we are involved in many different types of products and industries.

Please see below some examples which show how varied the metalworking fluid market can be and why these products have such huge potential for Gulf Distributors around the World:

Gardner Aerospace

Gardner Aerospace is one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of large commercial aircraft components manufactured with ultra high quality aerospace grade aluminium alloys and titanium. Gulf very recently replaced Castrol and Quaker Chemicals at one of Gardner’s largest UK factories following trials with GULFCUT HF. The trial results showed huge improvements in tool and coolant life in addition to solving machine operator health and safety complaints.

Panasonic

One of Japan’s largest companies, Panasonic use Gulf Vanishing Oil to form the steel panels used in their microwave ovens. After trying many different makes, Gulf Vanishing Oil CN1 was found to be the best combination of fast drying time and low odour.

ThyssenKrupp

ThyssenKrupp, based in South Wales, use Gulf Superdraw 15/3 to form large steel and aluminium panels for Bentley Cars and Land Rover. Gulf Superdraw 15/3 is a specially formulated product based on synthetic esters and is designed to provide superb lubrication and excellent wetting distribution across large surfaces. It also offers enhanced operator health and safety and has a low environmental impact.

Long & Marshall

Long and Marshall is a highly successful company based in the South of England who manufacture aircraft components. They are located in an area that has very hard water, and this constantly causes hard water salts to build up in their machine tool sumps in the form of creamy residue. This can also cause staining of the aerospace aluminium and steel components that they manufacture. We recommended the use of Gulfcut AL-H and since moving to the Gulf product, all hard water residues and staining have disappeared. Sump life has also increased resulting in reduced down time and coolant expenditure.

SAS International

SAS International manufactures steel ceiling panels used extensively in International Airport terminal buildings all over the world. The panels are made from large rolls of steel which are cut to size before hundreds of holes are punched into them using a large multi-punch press tool. These press tools are very expensive and tool life is therefore critical. It is also vital that the tools pierce the steel cleanly and that no residue of metal is remaining at the tip which could potentially cause damage and consequent rejects of panels. Gulf Micropress XP has been developed specially for this process and has proved to exceed the performance of all competitor products. It promotes excellent tool life and a clean, swarf free process, resulting in substantial savings for the customer in tool life and reject rates.

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