IRMCO FLUIDS stamping lubricants are water-based and water-soluble fluids that are easily removed in conventional pretreatment processes in the automotive, appliance, heavy equipment, aerospace, and other manufacturing industries. Although the universally recommended industrial welding processes specify only welding completely clean metal surfaces together – some customers choose to “weld without washing”. The organic, oil-free residues typically “burn clean” in automated welding processes.