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Lubcon, a pan-African lubricants manufacturing company, with operations across the continent, has reopened for business after the Covid-19 lockdown. Production activities have also started at its headquarters in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.
The Managing Director, Lubcon Nigeria Limited, Mr. Taiye Williams, who confirmed this, Friday, in a chat with AUTO REPORT AFRICA, said: “Yes, we have started production and our plant is running in compliance with all the health and safety measures outlined by the Government.”
Lubcon is a trail blazer in the lubricants industry not only in Nigeria but across Africa as a whole as its products are having a good share of the markets in countries where it operates.
And in a feat yet-to-be matched by any other lube producing company in Nigeria, Lubcon, which was commissioned by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) for the supply of aviation fuel to domestic and foreign airlines at airports in Nigeria, about three years ago, was also appointed by JX NIPPON, one of the biggest oil and gas companies in Japan to blend its Yamalube on its behalf for the Yamaha Motorcycles and outboard motors being assembled in Nigeria.
LUBCON is the first oil and gas company in Nigeria to be ISO certified in the year 2002 and has become a key player in the oil and gas sector through the manufacturing, lifting, distribution and sales of petroleum and allied products.
The company has constantly applied the principles of productivity management in the course of running its operations for continuous improvement; and as part of being an ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) certified oil and Gas Company, Lubcon’s quality programme is designed to continuously seek to improve performance in order to meet customers’ expectations, and to delight them.
Since its incorporation in 1991, Lubcon has recorded several milestones due to its brand values and essence in quality production and innovative services.
In 1995, Lubcon became the first official lubricant blender for the Nigerian Automobile Technicians Association (NATA). In year 2000, Lubcon became the first to receive the prestigious Nigeria Industrial Standard (NIS) award for its lubricant oil. It received the ISO 9001: 2000 quality certification in 2002. The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) in 2004 commissioned Lubcon to start blending its lubricants.
In 2006, the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) commissioned Lubcon as its official blender. Lubcon was in 2008 upgraded to ISO 9001:2008 quality management system series. The qualification has been revalidated in 2011 and 2014.
The firm, in 2011, won the NIS product quality awards in Gold & Silver categories. On the international sphere; Lubcon in 2012 received the Arch of Europe International Quality Award in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2014, Lubcon was elected as a corporate member of the British Safety Council, as well as a member of the Institute of Occupational Health & Safety, UK.
Lubcon emerged as the ‘Indigenous Lubricant of the Year’ at the 2018 edition of the Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) Awards ceremony, which held at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The award was given in recognition of the quality and popularity of Lubcon range of lubricants in the country, especially, and the entire African continent .
Lubcon is, wholly, an indigenous company with headquarters in Ilorin, Kwara State, but operates in six other African countries, including Niger, Benin, Ghana , Burkina Faso and Ethiopia.That award in 2028 was the first time the lubricants sector will be featuring in the prestigious annual automotive awards.
The 2018 NAJA awards ceremony had the Director- General, National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) , Aliyu Jelani and the Corps Marshal, Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, who was represented, as special guests. It was also attended by many chief executives and other stakeholders in the nation’s automotive sector.
The NAJA award, was, indeed, another milestone for the multiple award-winning lube company. In 2015, Lubcon emerged winner of the National Productivity Order of Merit Award given by National Productivity Centre, an arm of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity and also won the Ghana Oil & Gas Awards (GOGA) as the Lube Manufacturer Company of the Year, through its Ghanaian subsidiary, Lubcon Ghana Limited, from among 30 different other categories.
Lubcon also emerged Nigeria’s Best Lubricant Manufacturing Company of the year 2017 at the maiden edition of The Guardian Manufacturing Excellence Awards 2017.
