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Metalube lubricants helped Bahra Cables hit high performance targets

Lubricants ease production growth

Bahra Cables, a producer of industrial wire and power cable products, has achieved high performance targets using Metalube’s specialist wire drawing lubricants, Lubricool™ 22G and Metaclean NEC-50. Both lubricants are in use on the company’s twin wire copper rod breakdown machine. Using Metalube Lubricool 22G while maintaining in-house controls, daily monitoring, filtration and the ongoing use of Metalube Metaclean NEC-50 as a conditioning tonic, Bahra Cables says it has achieved maximum production speeds of 36m per second and an average daily production of 120 tonnes of drawn copper.

has excellent pH and emulsion stability and is low maintenance, making it a durable and high performance copper wire drawing lubricant. Bahra Cables has achieved a considerable sump life, limited downtime, and reduced disposal costs. Albert Molloy, global product manager at Metalube, said: “Bahra Cables is now one of the leading wire and cable companies operating in the Gulf region. We are delighted that Metalube’s products and technical services have played a role in their growth and helped them to achieve their production goals.”

Lubricool 22G has provided three years of useful life in the 8,000L system. The product

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