Technical support for lubricant manufacturers, plant owners and growing brands. Connect formulation, manufacturing and quality through a focused project or an ongoing partnership.
Programmes for your next stage
Choose the business priority. We connect the relevant services into a defined engagement, with deliverables, review points and responsibilities agreed before work begins.
Fractional technical leadership
For growing manufacturers and brands
Bring R&D, quality, suppliers and production into one technical decision cycle, with an agreed senior review cadence.
Plant launch and commissioning
For new plants and capacity expansion
Connect equipment planning, process procedures, laboratory readiness and operator training in one clearly scoped project.
Manufacturing improvement programme
For plants facing rejects and inconsistency
Start with an evidence-led quality audit, then scope corrective process work, SOP updates and verification with your team.
Product development partnership
For portfolio expansion and new products
Define the product requirement, formulate around available materials, and agree testing, pilot work and technical handover before scale-up.
Define the objective, evidence and next decision first. Your proposal sets the deliverables, milestones, fees and any separately quoted laboratory, travel or third-party costs. Ongoing support can be scoped where a regular review cycle is useful.
Each service is delivered by a senior formulator — never handed off to a junior account manager. Engagements scope-priced or via the Annual R&D Partnership.
Fully formulated engine, gear, hydraulic, transformer, turbine and metalworking oils across 50+ product types. Each formulation is engineered around your available base oils (Group I–III, PAO, ester), the target viscosity grade and the performance class you need to claim, then validated against the relevant BIS, API, ACEA or ISO pass criteria before handover. You receive the complete working formulation and the test data to defend it — exact recipes shared only under NDA.
A dedicated formulation practice for metal removal, grinding and metal forming — not a single generic cutting-oil recipe. We map the operation, alloy, tool, water, machine, sump and downstream cleaning requirements before designing neat oil, soluble oil, semi-synthetic, synthetic, forming, drawing, stamping, honing, tapping, rust-preventive or EDM fluid systems. The handover combines controlled formulation IP, manufacturing SOP, qualification matrix and shop-floor fluid-management plan.
Grease across 15+ thickener systems — lithium and lithium complex, calcium sulfonate complex, polyurea, aluminium complex, bentonite clay and PFPE — spanning the full NLGI consistency range from semi-fluid 000/00 to block grade 6. We match the thickener, base oil and additive system to your operating temperature, load, water exposure and speed factor, and prove it on dropping point, four-ball weld/wear and water washout.
Custom detergent-inhibitor (DI), viscosity-index improver (VII) and pour-point depressant (PPD) systems designed as functional equivalents to Lubrizol, Afton, Infineum and Chevron Oronite packages — engineered to your base-oil slate and cost target, with full IP transfer so you are never locked to a single supplier.
16+ ASTM and IP test methods run through NABL-accredited partner laboratories — kinematic viscosity and VI, flash and pour point, four-ball wear scar and weld load, oxidation stability (RPVOT / TOST), demulsibility, foam and TAN/TBN. Used both to validate new formulations and to stand up incoming-material and finished-batch QC for manufacturers.
Turnkey manufacturing setup — pilot grease saponification units from 200–540 kg/batch and lubricant blending plants from 5–100 tonnes/day. We cover plant layout, equipment specification and sizing, utilities, process SOPs and commissioning, so you move from drawings to a producing line with documented, repeatable procedures.
For existing manufacturers fighting inconsistency, low yield or BIS rejection — a root-cause audit of your process, SOP redesign, batch-failure diagnosis and yield improvement. We work from your actual plant data and shop-floor practice, not a textbook, and leave you with corrected procedures your team can hold to.
End-to-end documentation and certification support across BIS IS 13656, EPR used-oil obligations, API licensing, ACEA A3/B4/C3 sequences, IEC 60296, NSF H1 food-grade and RDSO M-942. We prepare the technical files, test matrices and submissions so approvals clear the first time rather than bouncing on documentation gaps.
Ground-up development of new and specialty products — bio-based and biodegradable lubricants (ISO 15380), EV transmission and e-thermal fluids, food-grade chemistries and reverse-engineered equivalents of existing products — taken from bench concept through pilot to a commercial-ready batch.
Fast diagnosis and corrective formulation for products that have gone wrong in the field or on the line — grease lumping or bleeding, viscosity drift, BIS rejection, water contamination, foaming, oil/additive separation and colour change. We identify the failure mechanism and hand back a corrected formulation or process change.
Practical support for manufacturers and industrial users: develop skill, verify controls, interpret evidence and maintain improvement after the first project ends.
Capability development
Build practical skill where lubricant decisions are made: on the plant floor, in the QC lab and around operating equipment.
Technical assurance
See where quality can drift—from raw-material receipt to batch release—and leave with a practical corrective-action plan.
Inspection & verification
Independent eyes at the point where equipment, product and documents must agree.
Laboratory capability
Build the laboratory your products and decisions require—not a costly room full of instruments you rarely use.
Machine diagnostics
Turn repeat oil samples into early warnings and practical maintenance decisions for critical equipment.
Reliability improvement
Create a controlled route from lubricant selection and storage to the exact point where it protects the machine.
Shop-floor fluid care
Keep coolant concentration, cleanliness and condition within a controlled working range across machines and shifts.
Responsible operations
Connect lubricant operations, records and responsibilities so environmental commitments can be demonstrated with evidence.
Ongoing technical leadership
Senior technical direction at the cadence your business needs—without building a full leadership function on day one.
Recruitment agency process with exams and interview rounds, plus manpower supply from our industry candidate database — focused on lubricant and grease talent. View recruitment hub →
Talent acquisition
A recruitment partner for lubricant and grease businesses: define the role, screen for real technical fit, run exams and interview rounds, and present a shortlist you can decide on with evidence.
Workforce supply
Supply screened candidates for lubricant and grease operations — from our industry database or a focused search — when you need people who understand plant, laboratory or technical sales work.
Lubechem has formulated more than 1,000 products across automotive, industrial, grease and additive chemistry. Below is the working catalogue of lubricant, grease, additive and specialty formulations our R&D team develops to BIS, API, ACEA, ISO and OEM specifications — each engineered for your base oil availability, target market and cost structure.
Don't see your exact product? We formulate well beyond this list — heat-treatment quenchants, mould-release agents, rust preventives and VCI, wire-drawing lubricants, textile spinning oils, soluble and neat cutting fluids, sector packages such as railway lubricant formulation, and custom specialty chemistry for the broader manufacturing sector. Whatever the base oil, viscosity grade, NLGI consistency or performance spec, our R&D team can develop it and transfer the complete formulation IP to you. Tell us what you need →
Every engagement — single project or under the Annual R&D Partnership — follows the same disciplined four-step delivery so you always know exactly what's next.
NDA in place, current formulation reviewed, target specification locked, cost targets agreed. Typically 1 working day.
Lab formulation, bench trial, ASTM/IP testing against target spec, iteration as needed. 2–4 weeks typical.
Process scaling at your plant or our partner facility. Process SOP captured. Full BIS / API documentation prepared.
Full BOM, MSDS, TDS, COA template and IP transfer. Optional ongoing support through Annual R&D Partnership.
Straight answers on IP ownership, standards, confidentiality, timelines and pricing. Don't see yours? Ask us directly →
Product and plant services covering formulation, testing, setup and troubleshooting; capability and assurance services covering training, audits, inspection, laboratory readiness, condition monitoring, industrial lubrication, metalworking-fluid management, EHS support and fractional technical leadership; plus recruitment agency and manpower supply for lubricant-industry talent.
Yes. Every engagement transfers the complete formulation IP to you — full bill of materials, manufacturing process, MSDS, TDS and a COA template — so you can manufacture independently without ongoing royalties.
BIS IS 13656, API (SP, CK-4 and more), ACEA A3/B4/C3, ISO grades, IEC 60296 for transformer oil, NSF H1 food-grade, RDSO M-942 railway grease and EPR used-oil compliance — with complete documentation and certification support.
Both. We help first-time lubricant brands build a full product range from scratch, and we help established blenders fix failing batches, pass BIS, optimise cost, or expand their portfolio.
Yes. We deliver turnkey pilot grease saponification units from 200–540 kg/batch and lubricant blending plants from 5–100 tonnes/day — covering layout, equipment selection, installation and commissioning.
16+ ASTM and IP methods including kinematic viscosity, flash point, pour point, four-ball wear scar, oxidation stability, demulsibility and TAN/TBN, through NABL-accredited partner laboratories.
Always. We sign an NDA before any technical discussion. Exact formulations, component percentages and additive treat rates are shared only under that NDA and are never published.
Initial response within one business day (24 hours under the Annual R&D Partnership). Work is either scope-priced per project or covered by a single predictable annual retainer for continuous formulation needs.
For manufacturers with continuous R&D needs across multiple product types. One annual retainer covers unlimited formulation requests, continuous ASTM testing, ongoing process optimisation and all compliance support — no per-project billing.
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