Reducing Your Workshop’s Environmental Impact

In modern-day garages and workshops, the storage and management of lubricants play a critical role in ensuring smooth and efficient operations. And in today’s environment, finding ways to reduce the environmental impact of the business is becoming a key factor. Lubricant storage has traditionally not been environmentally friendly, with most garages and workshops disposing of steel barrels and plastic drums on a regular basis. Modern workshops are reviewing this aspect of their business to reduce the waste cost of this storage. One popular solution is considering the use of bulk oil tanks for the main grades of oils and lubricants required in the workshop.

Bulk oil storage tanks are essential components that facilitate the safe storage and dispensing of lubricants. Among the numerous options available in the market, Pressol Lubricant System bunded bulk oil tanks have gained prominence for their quality, efficiency, and innovative features.

Pressol is a well-established German company that has built a strong reputation for manufacturing high-quality lubrication equipment, including oil tanks, grease guns, and oil dispensing systems. Pressol lube systems are designed to meet the stringent requirements of various industries, and being bunded tanks, they ensure safety for the environment around them, making them a preferred choice for professionals around the world.

Key Advantages of Pressol Lube Systems

1. Durable Construction: Engineered to withstand the rigours of busy workshops where there is no time for costly downtime, they are constructed from robust materials such as steel, ensuring long-lasting durability and resistance to corrosion.
2. Accurate Dispensing: Precise oil dispensing is crucial, and therefore, Pressol lube systems come equipped with a digital metered gun that allows for accurate and controlled oil flow, reducing wastage and the requirement for plastic 20L measure to ensure the right amount of lubrication.
3. Promotes Tidiness: they promote a safer and cleaner working environment by avoiding any mess or spillage. All thanks to the drip tray for the digital gun, which avoids spillage.
4. Easy access: Pressol lube systems come with a 10-metre reel for easy reach across the workshop, thus avoiding any spillage chances that might occur without it.
5. Easy Movement: The Pressol lube system comes with a built-in pallet for easy movement throughout the facility.
6. Reduces waste and Plastic use: Using a Pressol tank for day-to-day workshop needs reduces plastic use and overall waste material as bulk oil can be stored in it, eliminating the need for smaller drums or barrels.
7. Better Oil Pricing: Most oil suppliers would give discounted oil pricing when needed for bulk deliveries to tanks, thus reducing day-to-day expenses.

On top of all these advantages that a Pressol lube system can deliver, it also allows for the fitting of tank management systems like Finol Oil’s flagship ultrasonic tank automation system, NERO. These wireless units fit directly onto the tank and provide real-time information on the oil level in the tank, allowing for usage history visibility and low-level email alerts, ensuring improved stock management.

Features of NERO include:

• Accessibility: NERO provides users with liquid level, fill volume, sudden drop alert and consumption data.
• Personalised Alerts: Personalised email alerts sent to you and your team at specific usage levels, sudden drop occurrences and low-level alerts to remind you to order in good time so as to not run out.
• One-Click Order Top-Up: NERO provides a quick and easy order system for customers to use.
• Projected Run Out Dates: Through regular usage, NERO’s Artificial Intelligence will generate projected run-out dates for your tanks, ensuring that you can order accordingly and completely remove downtime.
• Usage Reports: NERO generates usage reports designed in an extremely simple manner. This information can highlight critical information such as busy periods, average daily usage, trends, and order history.

Whilst most workshops, depending on their size, will have 1 – 3 prominent lubricants that they currently use 6-10 barrels of each annually that may warrant the requirement of a bulk tank, there will still be a requirement for many more oils in smaller quantities to meet the demand of the mixed of vehicles being serviced. To further build on and complement the waste reduction and efficiencies of introducing a bulk tank to the workshop, moving from the plastic 20L drums to the new oil in a box packaging such as TotalEnergies’ new Quartz Oil boxes will allow for even further waste reduction.

Now available from Finol Oils these Quartz Boxes and the stand allow workshops to store their additional oils in a tidy fashion to allow for quick usage through the front facing taps. The Quartz box allows for cheaper easier disposal than the traditional plastic drum and with that 86% less plastic usage which again contributes to your reduced environmental impact.

For more information and to get your own Pressol lube system, NERO tank management or the new Quartz Oil boxes, you can contact our team in Finol Oils, who are constantly striving to help customer improve on all aspects of their business. With these great services and products, we can help modernise your workshop and help to greatly reduce your carbon footprint and impact on the environment which is becoming a leading attraction to customers for choosing where to do business.