In today’s competitive food and beverage production arena, it is important to ensure that maintenance costs and downtime are kept to a minimum. Planned maintenance can help to ensure that the processing equipment is as reliable as possible and the need to maintain it is kept to a minimum. This includes lubricants and lubrication related…
Peter Vickers, Chairman and Nick Clague, Technical Director, Vickers Oils, will be attending UEIL Congress 2022 that runs from 19th to 21st October in Athens, Greece. The theme for this year’s UEIL Congress will be “Driving innovation – the lubricant industry on the move”. The participants will be exploring the topic of innovation along different…
VROOAM Lubricants, our authorised distribution partner for the European Inland Waterways, was awarded the Green Award to represent and promote Vickers Oils Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants (EALs) as Green Award Incentive Supplier, to inland waterways vessels. Green Award for the inland shipping was established in 1994 to promote quality shipping amongst sea-going vessels. Green Award is…
The ship’s propeller blade in our garden, outside reception at Airedale Mills, was a spare Controllable Pitch Propeller (CPP) blade for use by either of two sister ships, in case one of the existing propeller blades were damaged and needed replacement. (The abrasion wear on the upper surfaces/edge show that indeed the blade was used…
After being cancelled in 2020 due to COVID restrictions, SMM, the world leading trade fair for maritime industry, returned in 2022 on its 30th anniversary. There were 2,000 exhibitors and 30,000 people in attendance from more than 100 countries. “The exhibition was very international in feel and overall, the atmosphere was ‘normal’ and people seemed…
Vickers Oils are very excited to be once again exhibiting at the SMM maritime exhibition this year in Hamburg from 6 – 9th September. Cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the 30th year of SMM maritime offers the long-awaited opportunity to finally meet maritime industry leaders and business partners live again. This year the…
Vickers Oils has collaborated with VROOAM Lubricants in the Netherlands as our Distribution partner for the main inland waterways. Located in Dordrecht in Western Netherlands, VROOAM Lubricants is a manufacturer specialising in developing high-grade lubricants for the marine industry. Vickers Oils and VROOAM Lubricants share the vision of expanding the use of Environmentally acceptable lubricants…
Vickers Oils had another successful exhibition at Posidonia, Athens, Greece 2022. Posidonia is a strictly professional, commercial exhibition and access is reserved for members of the Greek and International Shipping Community. Posidonia, 2022 was the first major marine industry exhibition since the pandemic. There was a lot of uncertainty around the attendance at the event…
MV JUBILEE HOPE, the only dedicated medical vessel situated on Lake Victoria, needed to go for dry dock in May and urgently required lubricant for the stern tube repair. HYDROX 21 was quickly identified as the most suitable product to support the dry docking. It was necessary to air freight HYDROX 21 at short notice…
Marquis Oil in Malaysia is an authorised distributor of our VICKERLUBE FG range of food grade lubricants and greases. Established in 2011, Marquis Oil is a lubricant, protective coatings, and cleaning chemical products distribution company in Malaysia in the industrial diesel and marine sectors. Venturing in the food grade sector, Marquis Oil collaborated with Vickers…
Supporting The Mission to Seafarers in launching – Digital Chaplaincy – ‘Chat to a Chaplain’ messenger service Vickers Oils are proud to sponsor the digital chaplaincy’ support service for seafarers launched by The Mission to Seafarers, a maritime welfare charity in partnership with International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA). Seafaring is stressful at the best of…
The Great Central Railway is the only preserved heritage steam railway in the country with a double track main line which travels between Loughborough and Leicester. It originally ran from Sheffield to London Marylebone till the 1960s. In 1975, the Great Central Railway was trying to purchase an Oil Tank Wagon from British Rail but…
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