Dry Lubrication

Brush application of a dry lube to plastic slat conveyor

Dry lubrication is becoming more popular. Here lubricant is used neat, thus there is a large saving in water and effluent costs. However, dry systems do not provide detergency, passive lubrication, or have any biocidal properties. Dry lubrication systems are best installed when new conveyor lines are commissioned. Older plant can be retro-fitted with dry lube application systems. However, on complex lines with many bends etc, this can be expensive and often fails to provide lubrication comparable to that from a wet system.
Early dry lube systems tended to be based on suspensions of PTFE, but these have now been largely replaced by mineral oil and poly-hydoxy systems.

Dry lubrication has an immediate positive impact on slip, trip and fall incidents. Significant improvements in the working environment around packaging lines have reduced these accidents by up to 50% per annum at one major customer.
Dry lubrication leaves no residue on production lines. We have examples of our customers who have not needed to clean their lines for two years.
Dry lubrication does not support the growth of bacteria associated with wet lubrication systems. The result is that our clients do not have to stop their lines for cleaning, the atmosphere is cleaner and the bad odour from wet lubricant usually associated with these production lines disappears.

Make big water savings
Bottling plants and food manufactures are increasingly coming under pressure to use water more sparingly. Our customers have experienced a significant reduction in usage of water - up to 8 million litres per year for a single packaging line.

Reduce your impact on the environment
Because Dry Lube use food grade approved lubricants instead of a detergent based products, we dramatically cut down on pollutants. Our product is used in such small quantities it leaves no residues and does not enter into the waste water treatment unit.
Dry Lube Ltd. dry lubrication system means there is no need to dispose of detergents and other dirty waters associated with wet lubrication. This alone is a significant improvement to the environment and reduces chemical oxygen demand (COD).

Improve line performance and increase productivity
Dry lubrication enables improved control of the friction between the bottles and the conveyor leading to improved operating efficiencies.