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The roundtable ‘Current challenges in the lubricants industry’, convened by the Russian fuel and lubricants manufacturer LUKOIL, covered very interesting topics that seemed to go beyond the interests
After all, all processes that take place in the car market are reflected in allied companies. For example, the same ‘oil workers’. After all, the product line of manufactured lubricants depends on what kind of vehicles form the basis of the fleet (and in our country today these are very old vehicles or brand new “Chinese” plus “electric trains”). Well, you can’t pour the same oil into your grandfather’s Zhiguli and into the turbo engine of a modern car.
Not only do engines need lubricants with different viscosity parameters, but they also need additive packages that are completely different from each other and that solve different problems: who needs to protect the engine from wear and who wants to extend its service life. Therefore, by carefully studying the movements of the car market, oil producers are also adjusting their plans for the future.
Just a year and a half ago, motorists were panicking. They say that proven foreign lubricant manufacturers have left us, and “cars” will die from domestic oil products, like flies from dichlorvos.
But it soon became clear that not all “steering wheels” were ready to pay insane amounts for imported oil cans, and outright counterfeits with “penalties” literally flooded the shelves and began to destroy engines.
And as recent polls have shown, what motorists fear most when choosing oil is getting into trouble, which is why the level of trust in once popular imported brands has fallen below the threshold. On the contrary, loyalty to products of domestic brands has increased significantly.
This is understandable. Firstly, Russian-made oils have more than adequate prices, and the next replacement, whether it is “engines” or “transmissions”, does not put such a strain on the family budget. Secondly, indigenous oil refineries, such as the LUKOIL company, have achieved such impressive results in terms of quality and product range that a number of European and Russian car manufacturers use their oils both as the first filling on their conveyor belts and as original oils ( Since 2012, LUKOIL oils have been supplied to GM factories, since 2013 – Renault, since 2015 – Mercedes, since 2016 – VW). Thirdly, if you vote with a ruble for a can of domestic oil, the probability of encountering a counterfeit is minimal, while the share of counterfeits among imported lubricants is 30-40%.
Course for “electric trains”
Of course, alternative products from Turkey have also appeared on the shelves, the quality of which cannot be doubted. But honestly, the import and sales volumes of such oils are not very large, because the brands are new to Russians and logistics costs contribute to the final cost of the can on the counter. Therefore, in today’s reality, Russian oils found themselves outside the competition. This is indirectly evident from the production volumes.
For example, the Perm LUKOIL plant produces about 40,000 tons of lubricants every month: any supplier of imported oil would be jealous of such a production volume.
The range of products coming from the Perm plant is truly huge: here are engine oils of different viscosities (from the classic 10W−40 genre to Genesis oils with characteristics 0W−20, 5W−30, 5W−40, which are used in the latest generation of engines) and energy-efficient transmission oils for manual, automatic and robot gearboxes.
Oil workers also see trends in growing demand for electric cars. On the one hand, lubricant manufacturers should be wary of the electrification of motorists, because in such cars, unlike gasoline and diesel cars, the oil in the engine does not change, only in the transmission, and even then extremely rarely…
But in reality, this process will take decades (if it does not die out completely, when everyone finally realizes that the damage to nature is incomparably greater during the production and disposal of batteries than from the combustion of hydrocarbons) and cars with internal combustion engines will still continue to make money for lubricant manufacturers for a long time. At the same time, LUKOIL has already set course for the production of oils for various variants of electric train transmissions.
Unlike auto experts, who predict extremely depressed times for our country’s automotive future, oil producers are much more optimistic about the future. After all, the lubricants of transnational companies have disappeared from the shelves and the confidence of Russians in foreign oils has been completely undermined due to the risk of counterfeit products.
And timely investments in the development of our own production, including modern additives, now allow us to meet 100% of market needs. And in the LUKOIL product line, the owner of an old Volga, the owner of a five-year-old German and the happy owner of a Moskvich 3rd will find oil that fully meets the specifications of his car.
After all, all processes that take place in the car market are reflected in allied companies. For example, the same ‘oil workers’. After all, the product line of manufactured lubricants depends on what kind of vehicles form the basis of the fleet (and in our country today these are very old vehicles or brand new “Chinese” plus “electric trains”). Well, you can’t pour the same oil into your grandfather’s Zhiguli and into the turbo engine of a modern car.
Not only do engines need lubricants with different viscosity parameters, but they also need additive packages that are completely different from each other and that solve different problems: who needs to protect the engine from wear and who wants to extend its service life. Therefore, by carefully studying the movements of the car market, oil producers are also adjusting their plans for the future.
Just a year and a half ago, motorists were panicking. They say that proven foreign lubricant manufacturers have left us, and “cars” will die from domestic oil products, like flies from dichlorvos.
But it soon became clear that not all “steering wheels” were ready to pay insane amounts for imported oil cans, and outright counterfeits with “penalties” literally flooded the shelves and began to destroy engines.
And as recent polls have shown, what motorists fear most when choosing oil is getting into trouble, which is why the level of trust in once popular imported brands has fallen below the threshold. On the contrary, loyalty to products of domestic brands has increased significantly.
This is understandable. Firstly, Russian-made oils have more than adequate prices, and the next replacement, whether it is “engines” or “transmissions”, does not put such a strain on the family budget. Secondly, indigenous oil refineries, such as the LUKOIL company, have achieved such impressive results in terms of quality and product range that a number of European and Russian car manufacturers use their oils both as the first filling on their conveyor belts and as original oils ( Since 2012, LUKOIL oils have been supplied to GM factories, since 2013 – Renault, since 2015 – Mercedes, since 2016 – VW). Thirdly, if you vote with a ruble for a can of domestic oil, the probability of encountering a counterfeit is minimal, while the share of counterfeits among imported lubricants is 30-40%.
Course for “electric trains”
Of course, alternative products from Turkey have also appeared on the shelves, the quality of which cannot be doubted. But honestly, the import and sales volumes of such oils are not very large, because the brands are new to Russians and logistics costs contribute to the final cost of the can on the counter. Therefore, in today’s reality, Russian oils found themselves outside the competition. This is indirectly evident from the production volumes.
For example, the Perm LUKOIL plant produces about 40,000 tons of lubricants every month: any supplier of imported oil would be jealous of such a production volume.
The range of products coming from the Perm plant is truly huge: here are engine oils of different viscosities (from the classic 10W−40 genre to Genesis oils with characteristics 0W−20, 5W−30, 5W−40, which are used in the latest generation of engines) and energy-efficient transmission oils for manual, automatic and robot gearboxes.
Oil workers also see trends in growing demand for electric cars. On the one hand, lubricant manufacturers should be wary of the electrification of motorists, because in such cars, unlike gasoline and diesel cars, the oil in the engine does not change, only in the transmission, and even then extremely rarely…
But in reality, this process will take decades (if it does not die out completely, when everyone finally realizes that the damage to nature is incomparably greater during the production and disposal of batteries than from the combustion of hydrocarbons) and cars with internal combustion engines will still continue to make money for lubricant manufacturers for a long time. At the same time, LUKOIL has already set course for the production of oils for various variants of electric train transmissions.
Unlike auto experts, who predict extremely depressed times for our country’s automotive future, oil producers are much more optimistic about the future. After all, the lubricants of transnational companies have disappeared from the shelves and the confidence of Russians in foreign oils has been completely undermined due to the risk of counterfeit products.
And timely investments in the development of our own production, including modern additives, now allow us to meet 100% of market needs. And in the LUKOIL product line, the owner of an old Volga, the owner of a five-year-old German and the happy owner of a Moskvich 3rd will find oil that fully meets the specifications of his car.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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