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From oil to water based lubrication: Exploring water-based lubricants as sustainable alternatives for a greener future Mushfiq Hasan, Marcus Björling, and Roland Larsson, Division of Machine Elements, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden


Consistency and control: The key to confronting oil and lubricant counterfeits Bob Tilling, VP of Global Sales, Kallik


High quality sustainable products from agricultural plastic waste and biomass Matias de Tezanos and Boris Zhmud, KATA Circular Pte Ltd, Singapore


The future of lubricants and lubricant base oils H. Ernest Henderson, PhD, President, K&E Petroleum Consulting


Lube-Tech: How the NOACK evaporation loss test helps in our understanding of interactions between viscosity, volatility, and oil consumption in engine oils Dr. Raj Shah, Director, and Mrinaleni Das, Nicholas Douglas and Palaknoor Kaur, Koehler Instrument Company


SME opportunities by embracing toughening sustainability regulations Hans Gerdes, Leader Business Development, Metall- Chemie Fine Chemicals


New Year, new challenges for European base oil spot prices Gabriella Twining, Global Editor Base Oils, Argus Media


All shades of green lubricants Zorica Davidović, GM, BARGOS LOA DOO and Cvijan Antić, Head of Research & Development TEHNOSINT Banja Luka


Morris Lubricants appoints its first Chief Operating Officer


Morris Lubricants has promoted Owen Lloyd to become its first COO. Read about Owen’s career at Morris here.


Local market report: Brazil Marcelo Guimarães, Executive Manager, Fernanda Ribeiro, Product Manager and Thiago Junqueira, Market Intelligence Manager, ICONIC Base Oil


Regulars: Editor’s Desk ................................................................................. 3 Presidents’ Reports ........................................................................ 4 Industry News & Moves................................................................. 6 UEIL News ................................................................................... 48 VLS ............................................................................................. 50 In conversation with Jacquie Berryman, VLS Chair ....................... 52 ICIS Base Oil Report ..................................................................... 57 Forthcoming Events .................................................................... 58


Editor’s Desk


A very Happy New Year to you all and welcome to the first Lube Magazine of 2024, which is focused on Base Oils and Packaging. Thank you to our fabulous contributors which include, amongst others, Dr Raj Shah, Dr Mushfiq Hassan, Dr


Boris Zhmud, Dr Zorica Davidovic, Jacquie Berryman, Hans Gerdes, Gabriella Twining and Bob Tilling and associates. As part of our STEM commitment we are also featuring Owen Lloyd who has recently been made the Chief Operating Officer at Morris Lubricants. Owen was a former recipient of the UKLA Young Employee of the Year so it is a pleasure to feature how his career has developed since he joined the industry and I believe he is the youngest COO in our industry!


A recent topic of discussion at Lube Expo was how well do we as an industry know our customers? How easy is it to navigate the B2B lubricant landscape? In the dynamic B2B lubricant procurement, a transformative shift is underway. Consumer psychology in the corporate environment, especially in the context of deciding which lubricant supplier to buy from, is a multifaceted and complex topic.


To understand more, Lube magazine, with the support of UKLA, has partnered with Plan Grow Do (about whom you can learn more on page 44) to better understand this new omnichannel, personalised and digitised sales process, the impact on buyers and sellers, and how companies can become more aware of the changing dynamic to adapt their sales processes to make the most of the opportunities in the fast changing and evolving lubricants market. Throughout 2024, every issue will be accompanied by a small survey, we would encourage you and colleagues to participate in. You will receive an anonymised and aggregated summary report on the responses which we hope will be beneficial to your B2B lubricant buyer experience.


In more news from Lube magazine, we are in the final stages of launch our STEM Programme and will be sharing more on this with you over the next couple of months. Again, we hope you participate and work with us to grow this crucial side of talent acquisition, education and succession with our industry.


Tina Reading, editor@ukla.org.uk LUBE MAGAZINE NO.179 FEBRUARY 2024 3


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