The Plastics industry produces semi-finished products (which are inputs for other industries) and finished plastic products for final consumption: packaging, construction materials, electricity and electronics, medicine, etc. There are several ways of processing plastics, one of them is the injection mold, that require control of the hydraulic system with micrometric precision. An unsuitable lubricant or with high levels of contamination per particle ISO4406.99 of systems the requirements, create failures in the closure of molds, generating material losses and rework. Other applications such as extrusion of profiles or threads, which allows to generate an extensive and continuous product. Another form of processing is molding (injection, compression, rotation, blowing, extrusion, etc.).

In the plastics industry, a great variety of processes and machinery are observed, which is why fluid analysis such as the Tribo 2 test package, becomes a very useful tool to detect equipment failures in progress and directly point out the cause root of problems, preventing catastrophic failures and costly losses in production.