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PANOLIN AND SUSTAINABILITY MORE THAN JUST A CREDO To assist with the growing demands on machines as well as environmental protection, PANOLIN continues to expand the catalogue of requirements for its products and to improve the formulation of its hydraulic fluids for a variety of industries including the crane industry. WHENEVER SUSTAINABILITY IS DISCUSSED the United Nations’ protocols on the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, is on everyone’s lips. The call to cut CO2 emissions is, and will remain, an urgent issue. As a global market leader in biodegradable lubricants, PANOLIN has attached great importance to the environmentally friendly management of resources and resultant long-term sustainability, for decades to come. The development of biodegradable high performance hydraulic fluids by the Swiss family-owned company PANOLIN, began in 1983. In 1985 PANOLIN launched its first biodegradable hydraulic fluid – PANOLIN HLP SYNTH, which on the one hand enabled machines to perform to maximum efficiency, while on the other hand, protected the environment and its resources. Since then the core competence of PANOLIN is high performance, environmental friendliness and cost effectiveness of their Environmentally Considerate / Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants (also known as ECL’s and EAL’s) that also have a positive impact on the customers’ CO2 emissions balance, due to their long-term use, which will be briefly presented in this article. PANOLIN HLP SYNTH - DECADES OF SUCCESS Decades ago the first machines were filled with PANOLIN HLP SYNTH. The 112 / CAL September 2021
Since 2019 in addition to PANOLIN HLP SYNTH 32 (since 2017), PANOLIN HLP SYNTH 46 has been listed on the Bosch Rexroth Fluid Rating List 90245. These two products are the only environmentally compatible hydraulic fluids with Bosch Rexroth RDE 90245 approval. worldwide established PANOLIN HLP SYNTH, is formulated on the basis of saturated esters and enables a service life that is 5 to 10 times longer, compared to mineral based hydraulic oils. This not only protects the environment, but also the operators’ wallet. Reducing costs as well as increasing reliability and sustainability - a never-ending
Lubricants from PANOLIN are manufactured with high-quality resources and state-of-the-art additives.
issue in the crane industry and all other industries. Since 2019 in addition to PANOLIN HLP SYNTH 32 (since 2017), PANOLIN HLP SYNTH 46 has been listed on the Bosch Rexroth Fluid Rating List 90245. These two products are the only environmentally compatible hydraulic fluids with Bosch Rexroth RDE 90245 approval. This result shows the outstanding performance of PANOLIN lubricants, especially in terms of their longevity and excellent wear protection. To this date PANOLIN is still the only approved EAL/ECL by the standards or BR RDE 90245. In addition to HLP SYNTH, the company’s latest innovation, PANOLIN SPRINT, is now also operating worldwide. PANOLIN SPRINT extends the PANOLIN HLP SYNTH product concept and gives customers the opportunity to a cost-effective introduction, to the use of highperformance bio-hydraulic fluids. While PANOLIN HLP SYNTH is designed for a long service life, PANOLIN SPRINT is designed for the same use, but for a www.cranesandlifting.com.au
