HISTORY OF ROCOL

ROCOL has been creating lubricants with industry since the late 1870’s when the Ragosine OilCompany pioneered the development and manufacture of performance lubricants from conventional mineral oils. Throughout its history the company has continued to build and enhance its reputation through the performance of its products.Throughout industry ROCOL products are specified and used with the confidence achievedthrough years of providing products that perform to the highest levels. Today the ROCOL brand stands for superior performance, technical innovation and the highest standards of quality and reliability, values which have been achieved through years and years of unswerving attention to detail in the design and manufacture of products. In the early part of the 20th century the great ships of the oceans were rightly acclaimed as theengineering achievement of the time. ROCOL provided the specialised lubricants that redefined the performance and reliability of much of the mechanical equipment essential to keeping these ships afloat. ROCOL played an equally important role in keeping the early aeroplanes in the sky through the development of revolutionary lubricants containing molybdenum disulphide. As manufacturing developed, there has been a need to provide lubricants to meet industry’s even greater demands. This has led to the development of products now designed for the most arduous working conditions in a wide range of industrial applications.Internationally well known companies such as Unilever, Nestle, Black & Decker, General Motors,Du Pont, Coca Cola, Rolls Royce, Lucas, Toyota, British Aerospace, Rockwell, Airbus, Ministries of Defence, British Oxygen, Dunlop, Agip, FMC, VME (Volvo Michelin Euclid), JCB, ICI, Ford, Hughs Tools, Metal Box, Monsanto, Ciba Geigy, to name a few, are all companies or organisations that have benefited from the use of ROCOL Speciality Lubricants.The development and diversification of the ROCOL group over its long history have been aresult of the quality of its people, product and partners. The reputation, performance and reliability of ROCOL products, with their millions of users world-wide, is clearly the source of the Company’s strength and ROCOL will continue Creating Lubricants with Industry.

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