Our Business Area
Since 1986 we have been active in the area of rapidly biodegradable oils and lubricants. During this time rapidly biodegradable hydraulic and motor oils have gained merit in both European and international markets. For environmental reasons they have become essential in many areas of application. With our products and our concept of application we have ensured that there is no financial penalty either. Our PANOLIN products, based on saturated synthetic esters, have proved that there is no additional cost to the user (due to their long life capabilities) when using environmental considerate products. Therefore our rapidly biodegradable lubricants have become an integral part of the lasting environmental commitment of our customers.
As crude oil reserves are becoming increasingly scarce there is another economic pressure to use more lubricants made from alternative resources. It is important to only select products that are also suitable for the extension of oil change intervals. This point might gain importance rather quickly; thanks to modernised refinery processes the mineral oil industry will continue to produce a higher and higher share of fuels from less and less raw material. This leads to less raw material being available for the lubricants’ and other industries. The first consequence will be that it will become more and more expensive! There is a lot of evidence for the reality of the scarcity. Such as during the end of 2010 when winter just had to befall Europe for a short time and already the reserves of deicer ran out.
For 25 years we have been saying: “Oil shouldn’t just, it has to be saved”. Just as long we have been working on concepts to extend oil change intervals. In 2009 we introduced the Integrated Fluid Concept (IFK). In the same year we were awarded the Industry Award 2009 for this. With this we opened the way towards a machine without oil change. The Integrated Fluid Concept concerns the application areas of hydraulic and motor oils and consists of four system components:
- Long-life oils – KLEENOIL ICC calibrated to the fluid
- KLEENOIL Microfiltration to filter out solid particles and water
- KLEENOIL ICC for the on-board oil analysis and monitoring of the state of the oil
- Environmentally considerate technical consultation
With the PANOLIN project GreenMachine® the efforts in equipping working machines under holistic consideration of environment protection have been enforced. Rapidly biodegradable PANOLIN oils are of playing an important role. All in all our recommendation “Do not consider oil as an disposable product and only change it as often as necessary”. Fortunately it is for our customers, who are users of working machines, normality that they change more and more oils very seldom and often not at all during the entire useful life of the machine.
It is a business area full of tension with many polarizing thoughts and continuous progress.
Milorad Krstić, 03.01.2011
