Lubricant Solutions

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Taking you where you want to go

BASF’s Fuel and Lubricant Solutions division is a leading supplier of components and formulations to the transportation and mineral oil industries worldwide.

The business is influenced mainly by the trends towards global motorisation and the further development of engines designed to cut fuel consumption. Offerings cover fuel performance packages, refinery additives, polyisobutenes as well as lubricant additives, finished lubricants, synthetic base stocks and components for metalworking fluids. The business unit has its main facilities in Germany. In Africa, our commitment is to make our customers’ products successful by being their partner in lubricant solutions.

Components Portfolio at a Glance

One portfolio – many possibilities

As a leading solution provider and your partner for lubricant solutions, we aspire to market the most innovative products our customers require to fulfil their performance needs and beyond. BASF’s Fuel and Lubricant Solutions division provides an optimum balance of economic, social and ecological aspects, and we continuously strive to provide comprehensive solutions and reliable customer support.

Your Partner for Lubricant Solutions



The use of synthetic esters in lubricants has increased over recent years. Their good lubricating properties, thermal and oxidative stability, solvency for additives coupled with their biodegradability, low volatility, as well as environmental profile have seen them being used in many different application areas, from engine and hydraulic oils to metalworking fluids.

BASF offers a wide range of synthetic esters manufactured from sustainable and petrochemical raw materials.

Brands

SYNATIVE®

Typical application areas

  • Fire-resistant and biodegradable hydraulic fluids
  • Marine lubricants
  • Compressor oils
  • Industrial gear oils
  • Engine oils (2- and 4-stroke)
  • Transmission and axle oils
  • Aviation turbine lubricants
  • Stationary turbine lubricants
  • Metalworking fluids
  • Grease and chain oils
  • Refrigeration lubricants
  • Aviation greases
  • Food-grade lubricants
  • Chain lubricants

Sustainability

Expertise to make sustainability tangible to make your sustainability story complete

At BASF, sustainability is at the core of what we do, deeply rooted in our company’s purpose and at the focus of our daily work. We want to contribute to a world that provides a viable future with enhanced quality of life for everyone. We believe that working together is the key! Therefore, we are not only developing a more sustainable product portfolio but are actively driving the transformation of our industry together with our customers and partners.

Our Promise

  1. We strive to be your preferred partner for your sustainability needs
  2. We understand sustainability as an integrated part of our business
  3. We offer broad product and service portfolio to best meet your specific needs
  4. We support your targets with strong expertise in making sustainability tangible

Performance and Sustainability

We believe that working together is the key! Therefore, we are not only developing a more sustainable product portfolio, but we are actively driving the transformation of our industry together with our customers and partners.

Our solutions contribute to sustainable development and support differentiation based on performance.

With an increasing global population and its demand for energy and need for transportation, emissions and global warming pose a true challenge to the environment and its inhabitants.
Emissions for Climate Change
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By 2050, nine billion people will be living on our planet, but there will still only be one earth. We, at BASF, understand that our current rate of resource consumption is not sustainable, and the management of available resources needs to be handled more efficiently on all levels. BASF’s Fuel and Lubricant Solutions division can help by utilising selected resources in the most efficient way (for example, through longer-lasting brake fluids) and in doing so, contribute to the preservation of resources currently available for future generations.
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An important part of ecology is the aspect of biodegradability. This trait is essential when operating in environmentally sensitive surroundings to avoid the negative consequences resulting from releases into the environment. Our Fuel and Lubricant Solutions division offers a broad range of products (for example, biodegradable base stocks), which can be used to deliver the technical and sustainability performance needed in environmentally sensitive areas.
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With a growing population, world energy consumption continues to be on the rise. This includes energy for heat and power consumed by individuals as well as by a broad range of industrial processes. Solutions provided by our business unit can contribute to the reduction of energy needed in various applications through optimised operations, which lead to less energy consumption. Our fuel-efficient axle lubricants for commercial trucks can be named as one example.
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Waste results from community and household activities, but of course also from industrial manufacturing processes. Often, the amount of waste is an indication whether materials are used efficiently. Facing a growing world population and also limited resources, our society needs answers on how we can minimise waste to preserve our earth. Our Fuel and Lubricant Solutions division provides components that directly or indirectly support the reduction of waste.
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Durability represents the ability of a machine, equipment, material or item to last and operate for long periods under operating conditions. The longer it can last, the better – as this also has a positive impact on other sustainability aspects (for example, the efficiency with which resources are being used). Our business unit delivers solutions that address this aspect effectively through, for example, operating fluids that maximise the life of gears and engines while enabling operations at full load.
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Sustainable development for us, at BASF, means combining economic success, social responsibility and environmental protection. For us, this not only summarises our aspiration to be economically successful in our business but also includes – wherever feasible – delivering solutions that enable our customers to realise cost savings through the use of our solutions. For example, our lubricant solutions extend maintenance intervals, which ultimately leads to cost savings through less use of material.
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At BASF, we never compromise on safety. This is a commitment enshrined in our company statement. For us, it means ensuring and further developing safe working conditions. Our globally valid safety concepts serve to protect BASF employees, contractors and our neighbours. At Fuel and Lubricant Solutions, we look at potential health and safety aspects within the industries we serve and try to address them through our component solutions (for example, through our jet fuel additives that minimise risks for maintenance crews of airplanes).
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Renewable raw materials contribute to sustainable development by reducing CO2 emissions through their climate-neutral balance and by replacing mineral oil-based raw materials in a variety of industries and application fields. Within its portfolio, the Fuel and Lubricant Solutions division offers a range of components based on renewable raw materials, such as bio-hydraulic fluids based on fatty acid derivatives, which allow climate-neutral use and may promote additional properties, such as biodegradability.
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With our sustainability services we, together with our customers and partners, identify opportunities and risks to enable fact-based decision-making and ensure long-term business robustness. With BASF’s sustainability services, we find answers to burning questions, such as
  • What does sustainability mean for my market and my customers?
  • Are we addressing those topics with our products?
  • Do we have hard facts to proof the advantages like CO2 saving products?
  • Do we have differentiation potential from competition?

Our sustainability services combine expertise with tools to measure sustainability and more than 20 years of experience.

We offer unique tools, practical solutions, and best practices to manage the worldwide challenges of today and tomorrow together.

Customer benefits

  • Identifying sustainability trends and hot topics in the fuel and lubricant industry.
  • Embedding sustainability as a core part of the business strategy and innovation process.
  • Identifying possibilities for quick wins as well as long-term strategic options for a robust business.
  • Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of components to fine-tune the unique selling propositions.
  • Supporting marketing messages with a factual approach to sustainability.

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Key Properties and Features

  • Systematically assessing an organisation’s sustainability performance for customers, suppliers and competitors
  • Identifying gaps and the development of measures
  • Discovering key areas for differentiation
  • Bridging the gaps and advancing to a higher sustainability level

  • Having an overview of a component’s portfolio contribution to the specific value chain sustainability needs of customers, suppliers and competitors
  • Assessing the sustainability aspects of each individual solution in the portfolio, based on a method that is third-party verified
  • Integrating sustainability in customers’ strategies by steering their portfolio and innovation pipeline
  • Matching component offerings to specific customer needs with a strategic view

  • Analysing environmental impacts of products and processes over the entire life cycle or only cradle to gate
  • Assessing a range of environmental footprints, such as carbon and water footprints
  • Determining the strengths and weaknesses of a component compared to other components
  • Calculating scenarios to understand the environmental implications of current and future changes

  • Combining all relevant environmental factors with economic aspects over the entire life cycle
  • Comparing different alternatives, including detailed environmental information and an aggregated total eco-efficiency ranking
  • Supporting decision-making with a scientific basis
  • Generating robust arguments to support market communication

  • Greenhouse gas emissions savings
  • Responsible biomass production
  • Protection of areas with high biodiversity and large carbon stocks

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