The invention refers to the use of lubricants in a mounting mat, wherein the mounting mat is made for mounting a pollution control element into a housing, to reduce the cold peak pressure or compression of the mounting mat, the mounting mat comprising: a non-woven mat of inorganic fibers, wherein the lubricants are distributed in the mat, and wherein the lubricants belong to a group consisting of: saturated hydrocarbons (linear and/or branched and/or cyclic, olefinically unsaturated hydrocarbons (linear and/or branched and/or cyclic), fatty alcohols and fatty acids (linear and/or branched and saturated and/or olefinically unsaturated), carboxylic acid esters carbonic acid esters and/or silicone oils and/or organofunctional silanes, silioxanes.