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Metalube’s brand new Manchester, UK, laboratory is now fully
operational, having doubled its capacity to 126m².
The state-of-the-art space provides a bright and airy workplace
that is ideal for solving tough everyday technical challenges. It is
purpose-built and fitted with specialist furniture and equipment.
The facility meets all the requirements for a modern day lubricant
developer, allowing the company to produce first class products.
Along with the new laboratory Metalube has also invested over
£100,000 in new equipment to further enhance development
capability.
This new equipment includes a Seta 4-ball tester, Mettler
differential scanning calorimeter and Liebisch Kesternich
cabinet, and covers the key functional properties of friction and
wear, thermal stability and corrosion protection.
Technical director Chris Nettleship said: “As award winning
innovators we needed to update our laboratory facilities
accordingly. We have, in recent years, increased our number of
chemists by 25 per cent and the new lab provides them with a
fabulous contemporary 21st century environment to work from.”
Metalube manufactures a range of non-ferrous drawing oils
and maintenance lubricants as well as a variety of corrosion
protection and forming oils.
Metalube Ltd – UK
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Metalube doubles up on new laboratory space
▲ ▲ The new laboratory has doubled Metalube’s capacity to 126m2