Metal forming

The metal forming group spans a variety of industries including automotive, oil and gas, rail, and wire and tube. Additionally, our qualified representatives bring industry experience and have a thorough understanding of the metal forming solutions to our customers.

Our hard work and dedication have set industry-wide standards for technical performance and cost effectiveness. In addition, we offer well-known and trusted metal forming brands such as Bonderite®, Bonderlube®, Multan®, P3® and Rodine® to provide our customers with cleaner, longer-lasting and highly efficient products.

Henkel offers a variety of metal forming products for the metal industry including solutions for metal removal, metal forming, cleaning and corrosion prevention. In fact, the company manufactures and finishes thousands of products for everything from appliances to automobiles, nails to welding wire, lawn tractors to camp stoves, and bolts to crankshafts.

Applications
From cleaning products to pretreatments, Henkel’s metal forming group has the ability to provide solutions for the entire value chain. Our products include solutions for applications including hot forging extrusions, cold forming extrusions, and wire and tube drawing.

Chemical Cleaning – Our dependable line of cleaners efficiently remove dust, dirt, and metal particles as well as lubricant and oil residues.

• Inhibitors – Formulated to provide consistent, superior protection to the base metal during acid cleaning operations without reducing productivity.
• Cleanox® – A patented product for stainless steel cleaning utilizing small amount of fluoride offering environmental and economic advantages.

Hot Forging Extrusions – Henkel offers a broad range of graphite, synthetic and hybrid lubricants to perform various applications and processes. Our representatives will audit your process and recommend a product for optimal performance.

• Hot Forging Lubricants – Designed to perform under extreme temperatures and pressure, the P3® forge lubricants product line can perform in spray and flood applications to protect tooling, improve tool life and reduce scrap. Henkel’s synthetic and hybrid products are specifically formulated to replace fully graphitic products while providing the lubrication and protection to tooling on even the toughest forge.

Polymers – Henkel’s line of polymers are developed using environmentally friendly ingredients that can easily be applied with in-line or batch systems. An alternative to reactive and non-reactive soaps, these water-based, dry-in-place coatings are compatible with traditional pretreatment technology.

Pretreatments – Henkel’s variety of conversion coatings for metal surfaces hold lubricants in place during forming operations, minimize metal-to-metal contact, and reduce tendency for welding and galling.

• Cold Forming Extrusions – Our Bonderite® conversion coatings and Bonderlube family of lubricants address the most difficult forming applications. This technology is proven throughout the industry to perform with the consistency and quality to develop high quality parts.
• Tube Drawing – Our Bonderite® conversion coatings and Bonderlube family of lubricants will address the most difficult tube drawing applications. This technology is proven throughout the industry to perform with the consistency and the quality for pipe and tube applications.

Reactive Lubricants – Henkel’s reactive soaps that form metallic stearate coatings on top of phosphates for optimal cold forming of metal.

Wire Drawing – Henkel provides a broad range of calcium, sodium, and blended dry soaps with various additives to fulfill the requirements for the most demanding drawing operations.

Benefits
Henkel’s numerous metal forming solutions offer multiple benefits including:

Increased Productivity

• Decreases overall operating expenses through constancy and dependability
• Increases plant profitability due to less energy in processing costs
• Increases operation up time due to lower maintenance requirements

Improved Quality

• Keeps machine interiors and press surroundings clean
• Reduces scrap
• Improves microfinish on final parts

Safe Products for Environment/Operators

• Products designed for longer system life without use of routine tank side additives
• Reduces operator exposure and offers safer ways to use chemistries without loss of performance

Global Capability

• Operations throughout the world to serve customers globally
• Project management using worldwide resources

Brands
Henkel's superior metal forming products are supported by its strong, trusted brands.

Bonderite® – The Bonderite® brand offers numerous high-quality conversion coatings for metal surfaces that hold lubricants in place during forming operations, minimize metal-to-metal contact, and reduce tendency for welding and galling.

Bonderlube® – Henkel’s advanced product line offers multiple solutions for the metal industry including:

• Reactive soaps that form metallic stearate coatings on top of phosphates for optimal cold forming of metal.
• Water-based dry in place polymer coatings, compatible with traditional pretreatment technology, developed using environmentally friendly ingredients, are easily applied with in-line or batch systems.

Cleanox® – Henkel’s patented product for stainless steel cleaning, utilizing small amount of fluoride, offering environmental and economic advantages.

Multan® – Multan® products have set industry-wide standards for technical performance and cost effectiveness on a variety of metal forming applications. Their features have created an innovative push in metal operations and include high cleanliness, longer tool life, low scrap rate, high surface finish and reduced consumption.

P3® – Henkel’s dependable line of cleaners efficiently remove dust, dirt, metal particles as well as lubricant and oil residues.

Rodine® – Rodine® acid inhibitors are the most trusted and widely used inhibitors for removing scale, rust, and other deposits from industrial equipment and systems. Formulated to provide consistent, superior protection to the base metal during acid cleaning operations without reducing productivity. Products are available to protect ferrous, non-ferrous and galvanized surfaces in a variety of acid cleaning applications.

Steelskin® – Henkel’s broad range of calcium, sodium, and blended dry soaps, with various additives, are used to fulfill requirements for the most demanding wire drawing operations.