Forming oil
Castrol offers a comprehensive range of forming fluids
Metal Forming traditionally plays a major role in many metalworking industries and has also become increasingly important as an alternative to certain metal removal technologies, especially when higher efficiency can be achieved by reducing manufacturing steps or lowering scrap rates.
CASTROL ILOFORM series offers you a comprehensive range of high performance forming fluids that can help you to achieve:
- Enhanced component quality with high quality surface finish
- Improved health, safety and environmental (HSE) performance
- Increased productivity
- Lower your overall operational expenditure, such as tooling costs
To give you complete confidence that Castrol can provide the right product for your specific application we have grouped our portfolio according to their main area of application:
- Sheet metal stamping
- Drawing and deep drawing
- Fineblanking
- Seamless tube pilgering
- Welded tube rolling
- Tubular Hydroforming
- Cold rolling
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Forming oil
Abbreviations:
V at 40°C: Viscosity at 40 °C (mm²/s) S: Sulphur K: Phosphorous Cl: Chlorine US: Unalloyed Steel GS: Galvanised steel Al: Aluminium NFM: Non-Ferrous Metals SS: Stainless Steel GCI: Grey Cast Iron LAS: Low Alloyed Steel HAS: High Alloyed Steel Mg: Magnesium NFM: Non-Ferrous Metals
| Product | Properties | Materials | Application | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V at 40°C | S | Ester | K | CL | Other | US | GS | Al | NFM | ||
| Iloform 168 IN | 75 | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Used in cold heading operations on steel and alloy steels, in high speed, progressive cold heading machines. |
| Iloform BWN 205 | 600 | - | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | For use in heavy duty deep drawing, bar and rod drawing. |
| Iloform FN 450 | 105 | ✓ | ✓ | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | For use in severe operations in high speed, progressive cold heading machines. |
| Iloform PN 403 | Based on solvents | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | Blank - wash for aluminium cooling fins with flat, moderate collar height. |
| Iloform PS 514 | Emulsion forming |
- | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | Used as forming oil for drawing , bending and shearing on ferrous components. Suitable for polishing on rubbers & plastics. Corrosion protection on ferrous metals. |
| Iloform TDN 51 LC | 87 | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | For use in heavy duty deep drawing applications. Suitable for medium to heavy gauge steels, stainless steel nickel alloy steels. |
| Iloform TDN 81 N | 280 | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | |
Tube-drawing & pilgering-water-insoluble
| Product | Properties | Materials | Application | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V at 40°C | S | Ester | K | CL | Other | SS | GS | Steel | Al | NFM | ||
| Iloform TDN 81 | 140 | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | Chlorinated oil for pipe pilgering operations (outer diameter lubrication). |
| lloform TDN 86 | Viscous paste | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | ✓ | - | - | Chlorinated, pigmented oil for heavy pipe pilgering operations (internal diameter lubrication). |
Water soluble forming oil
| Product | M.O( % ) | pH 5 % | Material suitability | Application | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GCI | LAS | HAS | Al Alloys | Mg Alloys | NFM | ||||
| lloform RS 4060 | 52 | 9.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | Soluble Metalworking oil designed for cold rolling applications of ferrous & non - ferrous metals under moderate duty operating conditions . |
