Machine lubrication plays a critical role in maintenance and operation, ensuring the smooth movement of moving parts and components, such as gears, that encounter each other within a machine. Effective lubrication also helps to reduce friction, lower operating temperatures, and keep potential contaminants at bay.

Using machine lubricant reduces wear and tear on components, stops equipment overheating and prevents the need for excessive, unplanned maintenance. These factors reduce the risk of components failing, and machines seizing to work.

As lubricants play such an essential role in ensuring your machines operate efficiently, it’s important for you to seek out the highest quality products, or it could end up costing you in the long run.

Companies looking to save money on maintenance, may end up opting for lower quality lubricants, choosing general purpose lubricants to serve a variety of equipment, instead of specialist lubricants, designed for specific sectors and machinery.

While this may reduce costs in the short-term, it can end up becoming more expensive, with companies needing to buy more stock of cheap lubricant to reach the same, if not lower, performance levels as higher quality counterparts.

Using low quality lubricants will also mean you have to undertake more maintenance work, costing you money, and increasing your downtime. You’ll also have poorer productivity, with lesser quality lubricants causing lower performance and levels of protection.

When choosing machine lubricants, you should look for products designed to provide solutions for your specific sector, and the machinery you use.

The highest quality lubricants are those which are created for a specific purpose and can do the exact job they say on the tin, and here at SAR Lubricants, we provide solutions for a wide range of industries. We know how important it is for machines to stay operational, whether you’re working in agriculture, textiles, food, or industrial, to name a few, we’ve got you covered.

For example, those working in agriculture should look to use universal transmission oils (UTTO) for their machinery. These can be used for farming machinery, effectively lubricating the hydraulic systems, and other moving parts of tractors, diggers, and combine harvesters. Meanwhile, those working in the food industry need food-grade lubricants, to ensure compliance with health and safety legislation.

While they’re more expensive than the cheaper mineral oils, synthetic and semi-synthetic oils offer superior performance and protection, with synthetic oil ideal for heavy duty or high temperature applications.