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The cold-forming products and cutting edge chemistry for cleaning, pickling and pretreatment processes offered by Chemetall Americas combine to provide you with a comprehensive systems approach for the chemical treatment of metal and non-metallic surfaces.

Reactive Soap Lubricants

Reactive soap used over zinc phosphate coatings. Top product for extrusion.
Reactive soap used over zinc phosphate coatings. For long bath life in combination with excellent cleanliness after drawing and annealing.

Reactive Oils Lubricants

Reactive drawing oil for low surface roughness after drawing.
For low surface roughness after drawing especially if surface decarbonizatoin influences drawability.

Salt Carriers

For prepasses of wire over zinc phosphate coatings. Typically used for prepasses of high carbon and cold heading wire.
Salt mixture with an internal friction modifier.
Very low moisture pickup. Our high performance standard product.

Polymer Lubricants

Gardolube L 6332 is a low foaming aqueous solution used for the cold forging or cold extrusion of pretreated carbon steel, stainless steel, copper, brass and aluminum.
Applied by immersion or spray, Gardolube L 6337 is chlorine-free and applied on alloyed steel and mild carbon steel prior to hydroforming.
Gardolube L 6338 is an aqueous dispersion for cold extrusion of aluminum.
Gardolube L 6339 is an organic polymer coating applied to a metal substrate to aid in rollforming and deep-drawing operations. This Dry Film Lubricant (DFL) is chrome free, offers temporary corrosion protection, and can be applied on all metal substrates.

Zinc Phosphate Conversion Coatings

Low temperature process which gives a very hard, fine and tight coating. Fulfills requirement for a nickel free process.
Formulated to provide medium-weight zinc phosphate coatings on steel, Gardobond Z 3100 is used in wire drawing and light to medium cold forging operations with lube or salt carrier coatings.
Oakite Gardobond Z 3190 is an immersion applied zinc phosphate conversion coating material primarily designed to provide heavy-weight zinc phosphate coatings on steel, 1,000 to 3,000 mg/ft2, for use in severe cold forging with lube or salt carrier coatings. The Gardobond Z 3190 process operates at low temperatures and forms the sludge outside the process tank, when an iron limitation unit is used.
Gardobond Z 3400 is a zinc phosphating process developed for iron materials as a pretreatment prior to cold-forming. Gardobond Z 3400 is applied by immersion. The weight of the phosphate coating is about 100 - 800 mg/ft2
Universal process with a fine and tight coating. Fulfills requirement for a nickel free process.
Gardobond Z 3510 is a material designed to establish zinc phosphate conversion coatings for wire drawing, cold forging operations and strand line/continuous line applications.

Calcium Phosphate Conversion Coatings

Gardobond Z 3200 is an electrolytic, heavy metal-free phosphating process for iron materials to facilitate cold forming.

Metal Forming

Oakite Draw Clean VO is a special liquid formulation that provides the excellent lubricating and cooling action needed to lessen heat build-up between tool and workpiece in certain metalworking operations. It's successfully used for such operations as light metal forming of both painted and unpainted stock as well as stamping and punching.
Die Gard 36 is a paste that can be used in drawing, forming, stamping and copper wire drawing, either as is or diluted with softened water down to 5% levels. It can be applied by brush, dip, and spray.
An inhibited, heavy-duty, chlorinated, oil-base lubricant, Cool Draw features high load capacity for extreme pressure forming of hard steel alloys and other metals.
As its name indicates, Oakite Draw Clean EXP is specially designed for extreme pressure drawing operations. Actually, the lubricant has such superior film strength and exceptional cling, it's formulated for extreme pressure forming operations. These include deep-drawing, heavy punching, swaging, rolling, wire and tube drawing.
Specially formulated to be not only highly effective but also pleasant-to-use, Oakite Flexi-Draw contains no materials considered objectionable as constituents. It’s free of petroleum, phenols, phosphates, nitrites and sulfur. What the modern, synthetic, water-soluble drawing compound does contain is a special soap blended with completely compatible surfactants and a chelating agent. These constituents give Oakite Flexi-Draw highly desirable and effective properties.
Oakite 12 is a non-soap lubricant used during many metalworking operations including light-duty stamping, forming and drawing. It is also widely used in food industry plants as a conveyor chain lubricant. Unlike soap-type materials, Oakite 12 displays a high tolerance for acid spillage, brine contamination and hard water. In addition, it may be used as a general maintenance cleaner.