Educators of young children employ numerous songs, charts and the like to encourage students to wash their hands to maintain a safe, germ-free classroom. Although warehouse manufacturers might not be singing about washing your hands to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” they are taking other steps to ensure that warehouse operations protect the products that are being processed.
One way that operations are doing this is through the use of food-grade lubricants. “For food manufacturing facilities, the use of food-grade lubricants is of utmost importance,” says Marius Czech, food market manager of Klüber Lubrication NA LP, Londonderry, N.H. “The requirements on today’s food-grade lubricants are the same as for industrial lubricants, but the list of additives is very limited. The end-users expect the same or improved performance as they expect from industrial lubricants. It is therefore expected that any lubricant manufacturer invests in [research and development] (R&D) in order to fulfill these requirements.”