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at maintenance and purchasing levels. The good news is WOLFGANG LACHMANN
really that solutions exists and VDV Lubricants is now able
to update on request its Glassline® swabbing lubricants to RETIRES; NEW HEAD
offer glass plants a controlled and limited corrosion impact
on its mould equipment. In fact, this is the most important OF DEVELOPMENT
challenge as it concerns directly the health of production
operators; let’s also not forget that air contamination in the Wolfgang Lachmann, aged Frank Ebersbach, aged
production area influences the inner content of produced 63, Managing Director 38, recently joined
bottles as well. Swabbing lubricants are a combination of a at futronic together with futronic as new Head of
liquid phase composed of a base oil with lubricant additives, Michael Preuss for about Development. He will
and a solid phase composed of graphite. 30 years, has retired from be responsible in the
As soon the swabbing lubricants comes in in contact with the active professional life on 1 future for all of futronic’s
heated mould surface, the main part of the liquid phase, for February 2018. software and hardware
sure the base oil, will almost instantly convert to a gaseous Michael Preuss will development activities in
phase, this phenomena is unavoidable. In order to limit the continue as the sole the container glass division
generated swabbing smoke, the only option is to reduce Managing Director of as well as for automating
the use of lubricant; this can be achieved by a manual ‘dry’ futronic GmbH. To enable customised applications
swabbing or even better, by automatic swabbing. him to concentrate more with embedded systems.
As soon the quantity of smoke is controlled, it is a priority on his duties leading the He previously worked for
to look then closer at the content of it … as you cannot company in future, Preuss ten years as an engineer
always see or smell what’s in there! VDV Lubricants, as a handed over responsibility at a major international
responsible chemical manufacturer, has taken the initiative for sales to Stephan Pies supplier of sensor and
to have a complete and representative study (performed by at the turn of the year. automation solutions
Vito Research Center, Belgium) about the smoke quality Lachmann’s successor has based in Tettnang.
generated during swabbing operation. already taken over – Frank Ebersbach’s duties will
The conditions of this study are: Ebersbach was appointed include the further
- Heated metal surface – avg. 450°C Head of Development development and
Weight-controlled lubricant dosage system with responsibility for all optimisation of futronic’s
- Closed atmosphere to collect the entire gaseous components of futronic’s software and successful controls and
- Gas-analysis equipment hardware development drives for container
For this project one swabbing lubricant from competition activities starting on 1 glass machinery and
was selected, 1 standard Glassline® swabbing lubricant December. equipment.
and VDV Lubricants’ latest innovative product, Glassline®
SwabPharma: this latest product has been developed by
VDV Lubricants and patented for its properties towards a
high level of safe and clean swabbing.
Some conclusions:
- Swabbing lubricants are chemicals; when in contact with
heated mould surface, they will burn off and always create
smoke that contains chemical components
- Swabbing smoke (also called oil mist) usually contains
components that are subject of healthy high concerns, as
inhaled by production operators all day long
- Depending on the air recirculation in the production area,
limited exposure values established by national authorities
are exceeded
- Glassline® SwabPharma is the first product on the
market that offers reduced risks of air contamination.
The mission of VDV Lubricants, through its Glassline®
lubricants, is to serve the glass people with the safest and
most efficient technology of today and tomorrow. Last but
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