ABOUT US

While Vickers Oils Australasia is a relatively new venture, Vickers Oils actually started trading in 1828. In fact, Vickers Oils is an independent company led by the 5th and 6th generation family members from Leeds, in the United Kingdom.

Our entire drive throughout the Australasian region is to build on what has previously been established. We intend to continue the integral work of what has been built worldwide, ensuring that the Vickers Oil brand is supported with local presence and professionalism.

We enjoy a worldwide reputation as a reliable and innovative supplier of high performance, speciality lubricants, delivered globally to over 60 countries with regional stock points worldwide.

We support our customers with our dedicated customer service team, offering ‘one to one’ technical support and oil condition monitoring service (CMS). Furthermore, now that we are established in Brisbane Australia, we can build from everything Vickers Oils has to offer globally, while being able to give our customers the support they need locally. In 2002 Vickers Oils launched the world’s first biodegradable sterntube oil, HYDROX BIO, which quickly became the industry standard.

Vickers Oils also enjoy a leading position as an independent manufacturer of quality textile lubricants and have more recently diversified our offering into the food and mining industries.

Our oils are manufactured at our premises in Leeds, UK, in strict accordance with our Quality Control systems which ensures the highest possible standards. Our oils are proven to increase machine reliability and productivity, therefore reducing operating costs. Now, after serving the marine industry with speciality lubricants for more than one hundred years, our main focus for the future is the continued development of our award winning Environmentally Acceptable Lubricant range into new and existing markets.

With the appearance of a growing number of regulatory requirements and initiatives mandating or incentivising the adoption of EALs, we have the experience and expertise to ease the transition from mineral lubricants, and deliver cost efficiency and performance benefits in the process.

In 2002, Vickers Oils became the first company to make Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants (EALs) commercially available to the global marine market, in response to requests from concerned customers who wished to minimise the potential impact of their operations on the marine environment.

Eleven years later the use of EALs in below-the-waterline equipment was mandated for vessels calling in US waters by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in its 2013 Vessel General Permit (VGP). In addition to improving environmental credentials, the use of EALs is one way in which vessel operators can achieve real cost saving benefits through superior performance. Our EALs offer vessel operators the following distinct benefits:

Meet the requirements of the 2013 VGP
Offer superior performance compared to conventional lubricants.
Have been used by some operators as evidence of continuous improvement for compliance programmes such as ISO 14001 and TMSA
Enhance corporate reputation and demonstrate operators' Corporate Social Responsibility
Offer a mitigating factor in some cases of accidental leakage.

We are justifiably proud of our global reputation for supplying innovative marine lubricants, continuing to lead the way in the development of marine Bio-Lubes and providing our customers with the high levels of service and solutions they need.