Lube-Tech100th Edition
I was asked to explain how and why LUBE-TECH was introduced, back in February 1997. Lube Magazine was introduced as an internal newsletter of the British Lubricants Federation (BLF), later to become the United Kingdom Lubricants Association (UKLA). As time passed LUBE expanded its readership to include UK end-users. The reason for this move was to influence end-users to adopt lubricants best- practice and get best value from quality lubrication products. This move helped to create more technical articles/features and we found that readers wanted to easily retain them for future reference. One has to remember that this was a time before most of industry had access to digital databases and most people preferred to read hard copy reports. Initially LUBE technical articles were distributed throughout the magazine and we thought it would be helpful, if they were grouped together.
The solution we adopted was to introduce a centre page pull- out LUBE-TECH section in each issue, which could be easily extracted and filed for future reference.
Continuing its development, LUBE moved on to become a worldwide lubricants industry sector magazine available to all lubricant specialists and as we entered the digital age we created a data-base of past issues of LUBE and LUBE-TECH to help readers reference past topics.
Rod Parker
Since I joined the UKLA in September 2009, transitioning to Editor of Lube Magazine, I have always been delighted to see that over the years, the past Editors, have, without fail, managed to source a LUBE- TECH article. As Rod says, the first one was published just over 18 years ago in the February 1997 edition of Lube Magazine, Issue no 28 (you are reading Issue no 129). It contained three subjects: 1) Biodegradable Lubricants; 2) Triazine Biocides &
Formaldehyde; 3) Eco Labelling and they were written by David Margaroni.
The LUBE-TECHs are generally four to six pages, and occasionally they can be eight or ten, and in these instances, they are split over two editions of Lube Magazine. They do not need to follow the subjects contained within the Main and Supporting Features which can be found in the Editorial and Advertising Schedule which can be found here
www.lube-media.com/schedule.
If you would like to provide a LUBE-TECH for a future edition of LUBE, please do get in touch with me
suzy@ukla.org.uk.
Suzy Jarman
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