Been pondering this a lot lately. Do any of you folks think that re refined oils, basestocks will be used more in the future? My work uses all SafetybKleen oils except for euro applications. And diesel trucks we use rotella 10w30.
Re refined oils
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Yes, I believe recycled/re-refined oils' market share will increase with time.
I’m honestly surprised it has not had more prescience already. Safety Kleen and others collect and re refine a lot of oils etc
All diesels get 10w-30? What about ones that require something else?
how do you know they don't have a marked presence already...does anyone really call out the base stocks they use?
I bought a bunch of this when it went on clearance about a month after it was introduced. Worked fine in my applications. I liked it mostly because the bottles are exactly the same color as the grinch.
OT: it is not clear why instead of creating a whole new product out of rerefined oil, they just wouldn't use it as a base stock of their normal products if using them made $$ sense. What happens if the bottles are made out of recycled plastic, another product line? j/k
Cause Wal Mart doesn’t carry it. You can’t buy it at retail store either. Just saying
WM house-brand oils in Canada used to be SK re-refined oils, when they were called ‘Tech 2000’.
It was priced very inexpensively, like $.77 and $.88 a litre, and they sold a LOT of it. They even did a super-cheap OC package with it for a bit.
I ran quite a bit of it myself, and it worked well.
It was priced very inexpensively, like $.77 and $.88 a litre, and they sold a LOT of it. They even did a super-cheap OC package with it for a bit.
I ran quite a bit of it myself, and it worked well.
Valvoline dropped the NextGen oil because it didn't sell for 2 reasons (IMHO):
No one understood it and thought it was an inferior product, and, perhaps more importantly, it was only very slightly less expensive than their virgin oil so there was no incentive to use it. Maybe if they'd tried it today it might have taken off.
No one understood it and thought it was an inferior product, and, perhaps more importantly, it was only very slightly less expensive than their virgin oil so there was no incentive to use it. Maybe if they'd tried it today it might have taken off.
I miss tech 2000! I recall it being around 18 bucks for a jug of synthetic. I had a pretty stellar UOA on it too.
Around here they initially charged MORE for NextGen, both in the stores & at VIOC-but that didn't last too long...
I wish Valvoline was still making the rerefined oil. WHen they were we had a company that was taking our waste oil to supply Valvoline and they were paying real good money for it.
I wish places didn’t burn so much used oil; and had companies like safety Kleen use it. We have enough pollution already
you're missing my point... they don't really call out where they get their base from....who's to say that all the majors aren't using some re-refined in their blends, and just not calling it out... (because advertising the fact that they were using re-refined oil worked out SOOO well for Valvoline in the past...)
so why not just continue to used it, but just drop the marketing wank?
I've never seen any base oils for sale at retail unless you count baby oil or mineral oil.
He didn't say they didn't have a presence, just that he was surprised it wasn't bigger.
If these reports are to be believed:
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/base-oil-market
https://www.arizton.com/market-repo...OBAL RE-REFINED BASE,OF 6.5% DURING 2022-2027
The market share is roughly 31% and is projected to increase to over 33% by 2027.
Oh I got your point fine. We all know that some major oil companies are using some re refined oils also.
I have zero problem using Safety Kleen oils also
Just buy their normal syn blends.