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Lubcon, a pan-African lubricants manufacturing company, emerged as the ‘Indigenous Lubricant of the Year’ at the 2018 edition of the Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) Awards ceremony, which held recently 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, namely Niger, Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia.This is the first time the lubricants sector will be featuring in the prestigious annual automotive awards.
The 218 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), who was represented, as special guests. It was also attended by many chief executives and other stakeholders in the nation’s automotive sector.
Welcoming major stakeholders to the ceremony , NAJA chairman, Mike Ochonma, stated that the awards ceremony is the most prestigious and only recognised award nationally and internationally, stressing that the winners were determined after an exhaustive but objective evaluation of nominees for each of the categories as the award winners were arrived at through NAJA members’ votes.
Chairman of the Award Committee, Moses Ebosele, disclosed that the annual event always provides an opportunity for all stakeholders in the sector to come together to celebrate and exchange ideas, especially in the areas of manufacturing, efficiency, innovation and corporate social responsibility.
The recent award is, 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 2017at the maiden edition of The Guardian Manufacturing Excellence Awards 2017.
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 two 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.
