THE LUBRICANT INDUSTRY

THE LUBRICANT INDUSTRY: CHARACTERISATION RESOURCES AND SUPPORT FOR HIGH-TECH DEVELOPMENT

The lubrication business is one of the most important for InS given our know-how in tribology and related sciences.

InS offers services such as:

  • Support for the design of innovative products for complete ranges
  • Profiling products to extract functional benefits
  • Diagnostic tests and suggestions for improvment
  • Performance benchmarking
  • Carrying out correlative tests to identify properties in complex operational mode
  • Study of the evolution of products during operation and fault prevention

In order to carry out this work, InS harnesses our expertise in chemistry, tribology, contact corrosion, rheology, digital simulation and modelling, physical and chemical properties of wetting, high-resolution imaging of friction areas with related analyses.