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Exol Lubricants, the UK’s largest independently owned oil blender, has been highly commended at the 2015 Birmingham Post Business Awards in the categories of manufacturing business and export business of the year. The award ceremony hosted 650 people at the ICC in Birmingham in November, celebrating fast-growing, local companies in the West Midlands. The event…

Exol Lubricants has appointed Joe O’Shea as general manager of its Wednesbury production facility. Joe has more than 30 years’ experience in the automotive industry, having begun his career at Land Rover serving an engineering apprenticeship. After 12 successful years, he then moved to Birmingham based van maker LDV and occupied various managerial positions. In…

Exol Lubricants was the main sponsor for the second year in succession at the Chemodex Charity Golf Day, which raised more than £11,000 for the Ashgate Hospice, Chesterfield. The golf event, alongside a charity bike ride, included a prize raffle and secret auction. Chemodex begun a joint venture sponsoring Clive Harvey as he cycled the…

Exol Lubricants has won the top award of Business of the Year 2015 at the Express & Star Business awards. Taking place in the Ringside Suite at Wolverhampton Racecourse, a sell-out crowd of 440 people witnessed the UK’s largest independently owned oil blender take the top award and also the prize of Exporter of the…

The company recently signed an exclusive agreement with EXOL (ALGERIA). This exclusive and long term agreement gives EXOL Algeria the right to blend and market EXOL products in its newly built blending plant located in Oran (Algeria). EXOL Algeria has recently unveiled its new and modern 40,000 MT/year blending facility, which will enable the business…

Exol Lubricants has launched Autotrans Dexron VI, a new fully-synthetic automatic transmission fluid (ATF), specifically formulated for applications that require General Motors’ (GMs) Dexron VI ATF specification. Dexron is the trade name for a group of technical specifications of ATFs created by General Motors (GM). The fluid specification for Dexron VI was first used as…

After winning 29-28 in the first leg at Bristol’s Ashton Gate, Worcester led 16-6 at half-time with Chris Pennell on the score sheet. Bristol then took control but a penalty try and Pennell’s effort in the dying seconds of the game, converted by Ryan Lamb, made it 30-30 on the night and 59-58 on aggregate,…

Exol Lubricants would like to wish George Kidd of Kidd Lubricants a very happy 80th birthday. George took early retirement from farming in 1996, but this was short lived and in the same year began distributing lubricants with his son Douglas. George and Douglas – based in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland – have been successfully…

Exol Lubricants has been nominated for two awards at the Express & Star Business Awards 2015. Following on from last year’s victory as manufacturing champion at the same awards, Exol is a finalist in the category of the Export Award and headline award of Business of the Year. The Express & Star Business Awards presentation…