EDITORIAL Change is good
This edition of Lube magazine features automotive PCEO, greases and sustainability.
In Lube magazine we have often talked about sustainability being a key driver for product, service and organisational innovation.
But what do we mean by sustainability?
In 1987 the United Nations (UN) Brundtland Commission defined sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’’ Over time this has become an accepted definition and helps to underpin the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development goals, from clean water and sanitation through to responsible consumption and production.
Sustainability means more than just developing products built on sustainable raw materials. It permeates all of a company’s operations from the resources it uses, to its channels to market and even its impact on the wider society and economy.
How much energy and effort organisations devote to this key business driver depends on the prevailing political landscape, the resources available to them, and the organisation’s own desire and capability to become more sustainable.
But sustainability can be a business ethos as much as a cultural way of working and behaving. What sustainability often isn’t is an end point, being more of a journey of constant improvement and change than a single stop destination.
Coinciding with Lube magazine’s conference on Sustainability in London on 25 May, Chris Hines, environmental campaigner and former Director of Sustainability at the Eden project, the UK’s leading eco-visitor attraction, places sustainability within a global context. Chris will also be a keynote speaker at the Lube Sustainability conference in London.
6 LUBE MAGAZINE NO.168 APRIL 2022
This edition of Lube magazine is dedicated to one of the core markets for our products – the automotive sector. Making up around 50% of the total volume of lubricants consumed, companies operating in the automotive sector face a challenging transition from established technology built on the internal combustion engine, to newer forms of technology in hybrid and electric vehicles.
In this edition TotalEnergies Pantolis Zouppas writes about this new technology in his feature on an E-car road trip across Europe. Bizol’s Boris Zhmud writes about digital artificial intelligence as a base formulation platform for crankcase lubricants and Exxonmobil write about new generation Polyalphaolefins for improved performance and fuel economy.
In our Lube Tech feature, Nicholas Champagne writes about the electric mobility and a new era for thermal fluids, and Oats provide our local report on Germany, the largest lubricants market in Europe.
In April the grease industry will convene in Hamburg for the Annual Meeting of the European Lubricating Grease Institute or ELGI. Lube magazine is a proud media partner to this event and in recognition of this Chris Pether from Afton Chemical writes about an innovative new manufacturing method that delivers a lower soap calcium sulphonate grease that outperforms lithium complex grease.
We look forward to making new acquaintances and renewing existing ones at the sector’s events this year.
David Wright, Managing Editor
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