Unil Lubricants is a lubricant specialist. Your machines need to run lubricated and it is our job to advise you on all possible applications and the different conditions under which your material will be used. Unil Lubricants produces more than 500 different types of oils and greases. With this comprehensive range of lubricants, we ensure perfect lubrication for every application! We guarantee the consistent quality of our products and ongoing technical innovation.
Experience, flexibility and growth
Unil Lubricants has been serving customers since 1903, always looking for answers to today's needs and questions, with an eye to the future. Founded as Elbe nv with family shareholders, the company experienced strong development from its inception. At the beginning of the 1970s, the move to a larger production facility became inevitable: the current site in St-Pieters-Leeuw.
In 1968, Elbe became part of the UNIL co-operation association, which stretched from North Africa to the Netherlands. Gradually, this co-operation association developed into a brand name and since then the company has been known as Unil instead of Elbe.
The growth did not go unnoticed and attracted the attention of petrochemical giant Shell, which took over the company in 1993. For some years now, the company has been part of the French Cipelia Group, the most important independent lubricants group in Western Europe. Although the company had already expanded twice in the past, production capacity was gradually saturated, so an investment programme was launched in 2012 with the aim of tripling production capacity by 2015. Additional land and a building have already been acquired. An additional tank farm and new blending software will be put into operation in 2013. In 2014, once the necessary authorisations have been obtained, the operating area will be tripled.
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