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Ester Base Stocks | SYNATIVE®

Ester Base Stocks | SYNATIVE®

Versatile and tailored performance for multiple lubricant applications

Ester base stocks have a unique molecular structure and are the most versatile type of lubricant base oil technology that can be tailored to meet the desired performance and your specific needs.

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Ester base stocks have a unique molecular structure and are the most versatile type of lubricant base oil technology that can be tailored to meet the desired performance and your specific needs.

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SYNATIVE® Ester Base Stocks
With our SYNATIVE® ester base stocks, we offer a broad synthetic base oil portfolio with excellent performance suitable for use in a wide range of applications, including automotive, industrial, aviation, biolubricants and compressor lubricants. Our ester base oils are also ideally suited for formulating fluids for electric vehicles.
To help lubricant formulators meet the increasing demand for high lubricant performance and long product life, we offer a broad range of SYNATIVE® ester manufacturing from renewable and petrochemical raw materials. 
BASF SYNATIVE® ester base stocks have unique tailored molecular structure to achieve desired performance for target application
Esters can offer a variety of performance advantages over mineral oil and other synthetic base stocks
Esters show excellent sustainabilty features such as biodegradability, low toxicity and can contain renewable content up to >90%. They fulfil Ecolabel, OSPAR and VGP (EPA, Vessel General Permit) requirements

Typical Applications

  • Aviation and stationary turbine lubricants
  • Compressor oils
  • Refrigeration lubricants
  • Fire resistant and biodegradable hydraulic fluids
  • Marine lubricants
  • Engine and driveline lubricants
  • Metalworking fluids
  • Electric vehicle fluids
Various applications of SYNATIVE®

Key Features & Benefits

What properties can our SYNATIVE® ester base oils offer for high performance lubricants?

Performance features

  • High performance base stocks for extended equipment and lubricant life
  • Low coefficient of friction and good VI for high energy efficiency
  • Excellent thermal and oxidative stability and excellent low temperature properties allowing broad operating temperature range and clean operations
  • Compatible with MOs, PAOs and PAGs
  • Polar ester groups leading to good lubricity, very low volatility, high flash point and excellent solvency 

Sustainability features

  • Excellent biodegradability
  • Very good toxicity profile
  • Renewable content up to >90%
  • No bio-accumulation
  • Suitable for use in biolubricants
  • Fulfil Ecolabel, OSPAR and VGP (EPA, Vessel General Permit) requirements
  • For selected products which are based on petrochemical raw materials a biomass balance approach is possible to enable CO2 and renewability claims

Discover our SYNATIVE® Ester Base Stocks Portfolio

We offer fully saturated and unsaturated esters, esters based on petrochemical as well as renewable raw materials. As a world leading supplier for synthetic esters for the broad range of applications, our SYNATIVE® ester product range includes:

  • Monoesters
  • Diester
  • Polyolesters
  • Complex esters

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