LUBRICANTS
Kraton has a broad range of chemicals for lubricants through a variety of key raw materials for additive and base oil with built-in performance capabilities while also addressing environmental drivers. Kraton’s products include hydrocarbon oils, branched fatty acids, and distilled tall oil, providing a wide range of benefits to the lubricant industry.
Benefits
Our biobased chemicals for lubricants help customers meet sustainability goals while also enhancing performance expectations.
Our products offer exceptional performance in MWF , base oils and general lubricant applications.
Lubricants
Pine-based Sustainability Advantages
HIGH-PERFORMANCE BIOBASED OILS
SYLVASOLV’s unique pine chemistry can improve processes and performance in industries, including cleaning, coatings, lubricants, agrochemicals, and adhesives.
Lubricants Products
Century™
CENTURY™ products are pine-based, Branched Fatty Acids that deliver improved performance in various applications. CENTURY chemicals for lubricants help formulators attain desired thermal, oxidative, and odor stability levels. These benefits result from the product’s ability to combine oleic acid’s physical properties with stearic acid’s chemical stability via a clay-catalyzed fatty acid rearrangement process.
SYLVASOLV™
SYLVASOLV™ oils are 100% biobased hydrocarbon oils, utilizing pine chemistry to improve performance and enable a reduced carbon footprint in lubricant applications. These oil-based chemicals for lubricants serve as additive compatibilizers, effectively tackling solubility challenges and facilitating the incorporation of high-performance additives that are typically difficult to dissolve. Moreover, they are more hydrolytically stable than other biobased oils, such as methyl oleates and isopropyl oleates.
SYLVATAL™
SYLVATAL™ is a distilled tall oil (DTO) containing 10–40 percent rosin acids. It combines the advantages of fatty acids and rosin acids, making it an ideal raw material for functional products. SYLVATAL 10S, 20S, 20/25S and 25/30S are from European (Scandinavian origin) with a specific characteristic to have more double bounds (i.e. higher Iodine Value) than DTO with an origin closer to the equator, such as our SYLVATAL D25LR, SYLVATAL D30LR, and SYLVATAL D40LR.
