Metalworking Fluids

Halocarbon, a non-traditional, woman-owned small business contractor, supplies the metalworking industry with engineered synthetic fluids specially formulated to enhance machining capabilities and extend tool life. Headquartered in Georgia with production and R&D facilities in South Carolina, Halocarbon is poised to partner on future projects and solicitations, offering advanced solutions for your machining needs.

Superior Performance in Machining Refractory Metals

Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids are specifically designed to reduce heat and friction when machining refractory metals and alloys, as well as other high-temperature materials such as Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs). Our innovative fluids have demonstrated significant improvements over traditional fluids, including:

• Rapid Processing: Achieve up to 23 times faster processing and reduced manufacturing steps, as seen in our Customer Ta10W Machining Operation.
• Extended Tool Life: Experience a typical 5x or higher increase in tool and die life across multiple customers machining tungsten (W), TZM, and tantalum (Ta).
• Improved Surface Finish: Benefit from excellent chip release and flow, resulting in a 200-500% lower Ra surface finish, validated by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
• Lower Friction: Our fluids offer a 50% reduction in the coefficient of friction compared to the next best alternative in Twist Compression Testing of Titanium.
• Reduced Surface Deformation: Minimize ductile surface deformation during machining for superior part quality.
• Waste Reduction: Significantly decrease or eliminate waste material, scrap, and off-spec machined parts, and avoid the need for drawing pre-coats.
• Enhanced Part Quality: Less tool wear leads to better tool life, increased productivity, and improved surface finish, as confirmed by LLNL.

Safe, Customizable, and Easy to Use

Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids are non-toxic, extremely easy to clean, chemically inert, and nonflammable, ensuring enhanced safety and a significantly extended fluid product life. These benefits are realized using traditional metalworking equipment with no required capital investments. Our fluids are available in a wide range of viscosities to accommodate application-specific needs and can be formulated with or without anti-corrosion additives.

Expertise and Innovation

As the first commercial producer of PCTFE-based lubricants, Halocarbon brings an extensive legacy of expertise and technology leadership to the production of these advanced, nonflammable fluids. Our unique PCTFE-based technology ensures our fluids deliver unparalleled performance in even the most challenging machining operations.

Halocarbon is committed to further enabling your machining capabilities with our high-performance, engineered synthetic fluids. We look forward to partnering with you on future projects to deliver superior machining results and operational efficiencies.

Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids are designed to offer not only excellent lubricity and surface contact but also to ensure safety, reliability, and optimized performance in the machining, drawing, and forming of refractory metals.

Recommended metals:

• Tungsten (W)
• Tantalum (Ta)
• Molybdenum (Mo)
• Niobium (Nb)
• Rhenium (Re)
• Titanium (Ti)
• Superalloys

Recommended machining:

• Metal Forming Processes
  • Stamping
  • Tube Drawing
  • Wire Drawing

• Metal Removal Processes
  • Turning
  • Milling
  • Honing
  • Sawing
  • Grinding
  • Threading
  • Tapping
  • Drilling

PCTFE Technology Sets Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids Apart from the Rest

Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids are manufactured using Halocarbon PCTFE technology. This technology produces a less complex, more cost-effective chemical composition than standard metalworking fluids. Our PCTFE oils have been proven to be extremely effective in the machining of challenging refractory metals. The unique chemistry of Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids allows them to be easily removed from the refractory metals using conventional hydrocarbon-based degreasers and cleaning solvents.

Metalworking Fluids for Better Surface Finish

These fluids serve as lubricants at the interface between a workpiece and the tool being used in its machining, reducing friction and preventing the adherence of the metal to the cutting tool. By reducing friction, the turning speeds and feeds of the tools are increased, and the tool life is extended. Not only do Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids reduce wear and protect the surface finish, but they also reduce the risk of chips and debris from collecting on the cutting tool.

Metalworking Fluids for Tantalum and Tungsten Parts and the Drawing of Tantalum Wire

Another unique benefit of Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids is the possibility of extremely fine surface finishes for the processing of refractory metals, including tantalum and tungsten parts and in the drawing of tantalum wire. The application of these fluids allows for much cleaner cuts than allowed by standard lubricant technology.

Metalworking Fluids for More Precise Processing

Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids help decrease the generation of heat in the contact point of the workpiece and the tool by reducing the presence of friction and remove the presence of heat with their cooling effect. In doing so, these synthetic fluids stabilize the temperature of the workpiece and therefore provide stronger control over its shape and size. More precise processing is also achieved with Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids by their ability to reduce tool wear and breakdown in addition to preventing the formation of buildup on the surface.

Metalworking Fluids to Reduce Production Costs

Tools experience wear and tear, leading to shortened lifetimes and requiring replacement and additional expense. By extending tool life, Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids extend tool processing time to minimize the need for replacement while also increasing production capacity. Additionally, these synthetic fluids reduce production time per piece and save capital by allowing for higher quality cutting, stamping, and drawing with minimal rejects.

Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids are synthetic fluorinated fluids that are extremely effective as lubricants and coolants for machining operations such as, sawing, drilling, grinding, and milling. Halocarbon’s fluids have been found to be extremely useful in forming operations such as wire-drawing and tube-drawing of all refractory metals and their alloys.

Halocarbon Metalworking Fluids are intrinsically nonflammable and nonreactive. Additionally, these fluids are chemically inert, nonflammable, and nonreactive to ensure exceptional precision machining and forming of high-tech metals under a broad range of application conditions. Halocarbon’s fluorinated fluids allow manufacturers to conduct safer, reproducible, more precise, and more reliable machining operations than conventional metalworking fluids.

Key Performance Characteristics

• Safe to handle, nontoxic
• Chemically inert
• Nonflammable (no flash or fire point)
• Anticorrosive
• Nonreactive
• Good lubricity
• High thermal stability
• Great heat dissipation