Texaco's New Range of Greases
Introducing Texaco’s new range of greases, designed to simplify the selection process for commercial, industrial, and marine applications. With a new, consistent naming convention, finding the right grease for your equipment is now easier than ever.
Texaco Texclad
Texaco Texclad is an aluminium complex (AlX) speciality grease designed for extra duty, heavy duty, and extreme pressure sprayable applications.
- Good shear stability & pumpability at lower temperatures
- Good water resistance
Usage: steel mill roll neck; open gears
Texaco Starplex
Texaco Starplex is a lithium complex (LiX) grease designed for extra duty, heavy duty, and extreme pressure applications.
- Good water resistance & load-carrying properties
- Suitable for a wide range of applications
- Good oxidation stability
Usage: wheel bearings; automotive industry; wide variety of other uses
Texaco Black Pearl
Texaco Black Pearl is a polyurea grease ideal for filled/sealed-for-life and high-speed motor applications.
- Ashless formulation
- Oxidation resistance
- Low noise, seal for life
Usage: electric motor bearings; steel mills; constant velocity joints
Texaco Multifak
Texaco Multifak is a simple lithium (Li) heavy-duty multi-purpose grease designed for extreme pressure applications.
- Good general-use grease
- Low temperature properties such as pumpability
- Good working stability, load carrying, shear stability & water resistance properties
Usage: ball bearings; wide variety of other uses
Texaco Marfak
Texaco Marfak is available in three formulations:
- Calcium (Ca) anhydrous multi-purpose grease
- Good water resistance & load carrying properties
- Suitable for a wide range of applications
- Good oxidation stability
- Calcium complex (CaX) multi-purpose grease
- Good water, corrosion resistance & load carrying properties
- Suitable for a wide range of applications
- Good oxidation stability
- Good pumpability in centralised systems
- Sodium (Na) multi-purpose grease
- Provides a tough durable film, good adhesion & cohesion
- Resists pounding out in service
Usage: ball bearings requiring resistance to water; wide variety of other uses
Usage: cement, steel & paper industries; mining
Usage: roller & friction bearings; closed gearboxes
Base Oil Viscosity
When selecting the right grease for your operation, the viscosity of the base lubricant (Base Oil) plays a significant role. The higher the viscosity of a liquid, the thicker it is, and the greater the resistance to flow.
As a general rule, standard multi-purpose greases using a medium viscosity Base Oil (EP: 150-349 mm2/s @40°C) will cover 75% of requirements, where operations run at a relatively high speed, with low to medium loads and no extreme temperatures. However, for the remaining 25% of application requirements, a different grease is needed.
For high (or very high) load applications that operate at higher (or very high) temperatures and therefore need to run at lower (or very low) speeds, a thicker grease with a high (HD: 350-499 mm2/s @40°C) or very high (XD: 500-≥680 mm2/s @40°C) Base Oil viscosity is required.
In low-temperature environments, equipment needs to run at high (or very high) speeds, so a more liquid (thinner and less sticky) grease is necessary, meaning a low Base Oil viscosity (HM: ≤100-149 mm2/s @40°C).
While the Base Oil element of the grease, which accounts for up to 95% of the formulation, is crucial in determining suitability, it’s the addition of thickeners and additives, as well as the manufacturing process, that makes the difference.
Base Oil viscosity is indicated by the Load suffix, from low (HM), medium (EP), high (HD) to very high (XD).
Thickener
Thickeners combine with the base lubricant to produce the required consistency of the grease. The higher the consistency, the more resistant the grease is to leaking under force.
Thickening agents can be based on ‘metallic soaps’ (such as lithium, aluminium, sodium, and calcium), ‘complex soaps’ (where a complexing agent is added to the soap to help improve performance), and ‘non-soap’ (generally used for special applications such as high-temperature environments).
Since it’s the thickener that drives a grease’s suitability for different uses and applications by providing its main structure and consistency, our new product families are grouped by the type of thickener technology.
Thickener type is indicated by the Product name.
NLGI Grade
The NLGI grade classifies the final consistency of the grease, resulting from its individual Base Oil/Thickener/Additive formulation. NLGI grading ranges from 0 (and 00, 000) which is very fluid to 6, which is hard.
The NLGI grade is indicated after the Load suffix.
Additives
All Texaco greases are formulated with additives that help enhance the performance of the Base Oil. Additives come in the form of ‘chemically inert’ additives (such as polymers or those that can modify tackiness or viscosity) and ‘chemically active’ additives (which can improve anti-wear, anti-rust, and oxidation properties, or improve sealability and performance under extreme pressure).
The third type of additives are ‘solids’ which are most useful in protecting heavily loaded bearings from fretting wear, scuffing, and seizing. Some can also provide added durability as well as protection under extreme pressure. Types of solid additives include molybdenum disulfide (moly), graphite, calcium carbonate, zinc oxide, and titanium dioxide.
Any Moly additive is indicated as a percentage.
With our new Texaco® grease products, each part of the name represents specific information about the product that is essential to your grease selection.
To find out more about the full range of Texaco greases, contact your Texaco Representative, your Authorised Texaco Lubricants Distributor, or visit texacolubricants.com.
