Every business in the commercial vehicle sector is looking for ways to improve engine performance, lower fuel consumption and reduce maintenance costs. With the Q8 Formula truck range of heavy duty engine oils you can do just that and more.
Q8Oils & EELQMS: Leading the field in quality – whitepaper
At Q8Oils, we believe that producing high-performance engine oil is not simply a matter of fulfilling the manufacturing standards of today. It is about actively setting the new standards of tomorrow.
Introducing the new Q8 Sinan – Specialty compressor lubricant
Q8 Sinan is the latest addition to Q8Oils’outstanding range of specialty compressor lubricants. The Q8 Sinan is a specially designed high-performance synthetic lubricant based upon polyalkylene glycol (PAG) technology and has been developed for hydrocarbon and chemical gas processing compressors.
Q8Oils is part of a larger whole
Q8Oils is part of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation: one of the largest oil processing companies in the world.
The challenges of a low HTHS viscosity
The Society of Automotive Engineers ( SAE) recently introduced new specifications concerning low viscosity in the J300 motor oil classifications. These new specifications will help OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) to achieve the increasingly stringent requirements in terms of fuel economy. However, this extremely low viscosity may bring many challenges concerning sustainability. Let us explain.
ACEA 2016: an important step within the sector
ACEA, Association des Constructeurs Européens d’Automobiles, is an organisation of the fifteen most important automobile manufacturers in Europe. They are responsible for, among other things, defining certain specifications and requirements relating to motor oils for passenger vehicles, vans, trucks and buses.
Expert speaking: Cees Sonneveldt talks about 37 years with Q8Oils
We recently spoke with Cees Sonneveldt: manager of Palub, the Technical Department of Q8Oils. He has been working for Q8Oils for 37 years – so we can call him an expert in the sector without hesitation.
About trends within the market: flashback, evolution and expectations
Trends and changes within the oil sector are always about fuel economy and the associated viscosity, and can be looked at from following points of view.
Q8 Brunel XF 343 meets the sky-high standards of the aerospace industry
Q8Oils Brunel XF 343 is a new generation metalworking fluid designed to excel across a wide variety of aerospace machining applications. In 2015, it was approved by Snecma Safran to the specification 455-201-0-00-B and in 2016, with continued sales success it also was accredited PCS 4001ed2 approval from Safran Landing Systems to be included on the PCS 4002 list.
Q8 Brunel – a revolution in water soluble machining and grinding fluids
Q8Oils has launched Q8 Brunel, its latest revolution in water soluble machining and grinding fluids. The Q8 Brunel range has been developed to out–perform all other fluids and has already been successfully tried and tested with manufacturers across Europe. It is formulated to be fully compliant with latest European industry legislation providing a range of products that are free from boron, boric acid, chlorinated paraffin, secondary amine, formaldehyde releasing biocides and nitrites.