As part of its 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility programme, employees from Leeds-based Q8Oils completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks Walk on 5th April and raised money and awareness for Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA), an independent charity providing a life saving, rapid response emergency service to over five million people across Yorkshire.
Twelve Q8Oils employees completed the 25-mile walk and successfully raised over £1300. It was a punishing achievement with many of those taking part overcoming painful blisters and tired muscles to come through and complete all three peaks in 12 hours.
There were a few aching bodies at work on the Monday morning following the walk – especially for those having to endure a long day on the Q8Oils stand at MACH 2014 – but the feelings of achievement by those who finished more than made up for a few days of aches and pains!
Commenting, Naomi Holden says: “The willpower of everybody who took part on the day was immense and the team spirit and commitment shown to raise such a sum of money for YAA was amazing.”
It’s not too late to make a donation and anyone wishing to contribute to the Q8Oils Three Peaks Challenge can do so at www.justgiving.com/q8oils3peaks.
For further information, please contact Naomi Holden, Q8Oils UK Marketing on Naomi.Holden@Q8Oils.com.
A new ‘Plant Maintenance Solutions’ brochure featuring an overview of the Q8 range of slideway lubricants, rust preventatives, greases and plant maintenance oils is now available from Q8Oils. Containing descriptions and approvals for the company’s full plant maintenance portfolio, the new brochure will enable customers to specify the correct product for their application.
The lubricants, oils and greases covered within the Plant Maintenance Solutions brochure –the result of over 100 years of development and experience gained from working within a wide range of industrial sectors – include: Q8 Dynobear and Q8 Heavibear slideway lubricants; Q8 Erebus MP, Q8 El Greco and Q8 Gade gear oils; Q8 Verdi circulations oil; Q8 Haydn, Q8 Hellar, Q8 Hogarth, Q8 Holbein and Q8 Holst hydraulic oils; Q8 Schubert and Q8 Schumann compressor oils; Q8 Van Gogh turbine oil; Q8 Ravel A & D turbine oils; and the company’s range of greases including Q8 Rembrandt EP2, Q8 Rembrandt 3, Q8 Rembrandt Moly, Q8 Rubens EP00, Q8 Rubens EP2.5, Q8 Rubens TEP2, Q8 Copper Thread Compound and Q8 Fifth Wheel Grease.
Commenting for Q8Oils, brand and communication manager, Neil Grieve says: “The Plant Maintenance Solutions brochure confirms to customers that Q8Oils has a product range from which they can choose the correct plant maintenance solution for their processes and applications. In addition, our engineers, sales managers and technical help desk are always on hand to provide advice on products that will precisely match a customer’s specific needs.”
An English language version of the brochure is available immediately, with numerous translations becoming available in the coming weeks to cater for the 80 countries worldwide where Q8Oils sells plant maintenance oils.
For your copy of the new ‘Plant Maintenance Solutions’ brochure from Q8Oils, email info@Q8Oils.com or contact the international office on +32 (0)3 247 38 11 or UK office on +44 (0)113 235 0555.
Q8Oils has produced a new brochure for the Q8 range of soluble and neat metal working fluids.
The new ‘Smart Engineering Solutions’ brochure provides an overview of the company’s metal working fluids portfolio – including Q8 Baroni, Q8 Beethoven, Q8 Berlioz soluble fluids, Q8 Bach neat metal working oils, and Q8 Brahms neat forming oils. The solutions offered in the new brochure are the result of more than 100 years of product development and application experience.
Designed in the UK, the brochure will also be translated into various languages to cater for the 80+ countries worldwide into which Q8Oils sells its metal working fluids.
Commenting for Q8Oils, brand and communication manager, Neil Grieve says: “It is essential that we offer a product range from which customers can confidently choose a metal working fluid best suited to their process and application; and the brochure is designed to illustrate that various options are available. They can then contact us for advice on the products that perfectly match their specific requirements by consulting with a Q8Oils engineer or sales manager’’.
The new Smart Engineering Solutions brochure features easy-read tables and graphs to help guide customers to the correct Q8 metal working fluid grade and contains details on how they can contact Q8Oils sales and technical staff.
For your copy of the new ‘Smart Engineering Solutions’ brochure from Q8Oils, email metal@Q8Oils.com or contact the international office on +32 (0)3 247 38 11 or UK office on +44 (0)113 235 0555.
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Kerr & Smith is a family company providing sales and servicing for Vauxhall cars and Iveco and DAF commercial vehicles in Ayr, Cumnock and Glasgow. The group, which employs about 150 people, was also a winner of Family Business of the Year in the 2013 Ayrshire Business Awards.
In order to service the diverse range of vehicles Kerr & Smith needs a good oil supplier and, more than ten years ago, the owners of the business started a relationship with Q8Oils to supply oils and other lubricants for various vehicle types, and for the business’s four sites.
Commenting for the company, managing director Paul Kerr says that during the long relationship the business has never experienced any problems. “The Q8Oils team has always been very helpful, always delivered what we needed and on time; and the level of service they have established with us continues to this day.”
The business has recently relocated its Ayr site to a brand new purpose built, 4-acre site commercial vehicles site that specialises in heavier commercial vehicles but also features a fully equipped ATF Lane for testing all vehicles – cars, HGVs and PSVs. The team can provide pre-MOT testing, PMI inspection, LOLER checks and repair and maintenance for any fleet and all makes, no matter how large or small. Paul says the growth potential for the new site is enormous and the test facility allows staff to provide a fast turnaround for any mix of car and commercial customers.
Regarding product deliveries, Kerr & Smith stores its Q8 oils in bulk tanks, so typically orders 1000 or 1500 litre bulk quantities of engine oils to various specifications, which are delivered within a day or two. Smaller quantities of hydraulic oils, gear oils, greases, etc. are ordered over the phone with the Q8Oils customer service centre in Leeds and also delivered within a couple of days.
“There have never been issues with delivery for any orders and this is important to us because in our business customers, especially HGV customers whose vehicles are making money for their businesses, can’t afford to have vehicles off the road for any length of time.” explains Paul.
He goes on to say that if products are required to keep Kerr & Smith customers on the road, a reliable supplier of quality oils and lubricants is essential, which is why Kerr & Smith have used Q8Oils for so long and why they continue to use them today.
The high specifications of modern vehicles demand oils and lubricants created with the same high technologies used to design and manufacture components such as engines, axles, etc. Q8Oils supplies those products and have helped Kerr & Smith to understand the specifications and the choices they need to make.
For further information on its range of passenger car and commercial vehicle lubricants and petroleum-based derivatives, call Q8Oils on 0113 235 0555, email marketing@Q8Oils.com or visit www.Q8Oils.co.uk.
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When Q8Oils launched its Field Service Technician (FST) service at the MACH exhibition in 1992 it was an instant hit with visitors and was so well received in the wider industry that, at METCUT 1994, it received the Metalworking Production ‘Technical Innovation’ award. Now, more than twenty years on, Q8Oils marks the success of FST’s unrivalled service to the UK manufacturing industry with the launch of QCare – a major upgrade of the system that monitors the condition of Q8Oils metalworking fluids and lubricants in a wide range of applications such as turning, cutting and grinding.
The new QCare service uses a network-enabled, tablet-based system with a bespoke ‘app’ that enables Q8Oils field service technicians to monitor fluids, complete their audits and deliver results while still on site. In addition, because FSTs are highly trained metalworking experts, when working with machine operators they may also be able to identify problems as their checks are completed, and help to rectify them.
A visual inspection and a variety of tests are conducted to ensure Q8Oils products are performing correctly. These include standard fluid parameters such as concentration, pH and microbiological content. They also offer advice that can help customers increase coolant life and optimise performance resulting in improved machining processes and reduced machine down time.
Customers can also logon to the QCare system using their own tablet or desktop computer, and view a full historical report at any time, and share it with colleagues.
In the past twenty years the FST system has moved from a ‘paper’ system requiring everything to be written down and multiple copies made, to an advanced and automated ‘traffic-light’ system that identifies conditions as Green (normal), Amber (caution e.g. adjust fluid concentration) or Red (immediate action required). As direct sales manager Jeremy Dineen explains: “The new QCare system is very much easier to operate, fully-automated and therefore much quicker, and will create a graphic chart to show a full history of any individual machine.” He adds that the new system is very compact, much more user-friendly on site, and allows data to be distributed instantly.
The combination of Q8Oils’ highly-trained field service technicians and modern tablet technology enables customers to streamline their metalworking operation by maintaining machine performance and saving significant costs. Regular monitoring can limit unscheduled costs by reducing man and machine down time to routine service stops, and saving unscheduled maintenance.
Leading oil and lubricant manufacturer Q8Oils is to sponsor Tom Wood, the highly successful 12 year old junior Kart racer from Castle Donington, who races for the Aim Motorsport Cadet team. The sponsorship will include funding for the season’s race entry fees and other team expenses.
His Karting successes in 2013 included 3rd in the National Cadet kart championship, which was a very close points finish - coming down to the last race. He was 3rd place overall and highest placed Young Driver in the British Cadet Kart Championship 2013 with only a couple of points between the first three drivers, Vice GP Plate Champion in the British Kart Grand Prix, Vice O Plate Champion in the IAME Cadet O Plate. He was also Top Rookie in both Championships. Another highlight of Tom’s career to date is winning the 2012 Trent Valley Kart Club Championship, which put his name on the same Trophy as his hero World Formula One Champion Lewis Hamilton. Not surprising, Tom’s own ambition is to become a Formula One world champion and he will be competing around the United Kingdom in the British Cadet kart Championship, which is acknowledged as the road to Formula One.
Tom first drove a kart in 2005 and loved it immediately. At Kartmania in 2007 the new Bambino school was being launched in 2008 and he could compete in petrol karts in the next year. A second-hand Bambino kart as a Christmas present opened another chapter in Tom’s karting life, and the Wood family made the first of many trips to Buckmore Park in Kent for the newly organised Bambino race meetings.
Tom contested the Bambino rounds through 2008 and 2009 – becoming the most successful Bambino racer at Buckmore, winning 12 out of 18 rounds in 2009 and being on the podium 17 times.
He then moved into MSA cadet racing, competing in five races as a novice before being allowed to have a full race licence. In these early meetings he won three first place novice trophies!
2010 saw him finish all three championships well up the order: with a 5th place at – Rissington, 6th at Shenington, 7th at Whilton Mill, and the highlight of the year – winning the most promising cadet trophy at the Shenington awards evening.
In 2011 it was time to move up to National Competition. Tom entered the Formula Kart Stars British championship racing for SAS motorsport. This was a big jump from the club meetings and he was now competing with much more experienced drivers up to five years older than him. The result? As always Tom pushed hard and finished as the highest placed young driver in the final championship standings. He also competed in the Shenington Club championship finishing in 3rd place overall, with many podium finishes. At the end of 2011 he signed for the top cadet team in the country – Fusion Motorsport and in 2012 competed in the Formula Kart Stars (FKS) championship. Still signed with Aim Motorsport Cadet Team, Tom is top seed for 2014, and the rest as they say is history.
As well as karting, Tom also enjoys a wide range of interests including cycling, swimming, football, hockey, running and music, but admits that his favouring next to Karting is watching Motorsport: especially F1, V8 Supercars and Motor GP.
Commenting on his Q8Oils sponsorship he says: "I am delighted to have backing from such a prestigious global company as Q8Oils. It is a fantastic opportunity and I would like to thank the company for its support. I am looking forward to what will be a very exciting season ahead together." He also repeats the promise he makes every season “I only race to win”.
