Oil Reconditioning

Find information regarding oil reconditioning under this Yellow Pages® heading. Currently in Australia, most (if not all) oil based lubricants are imported and between 60% and 80% of the oil-based lubricants are not recycled. The amount of wastage and potential for environmental damage is very high. Oil recondition companies thus provide a highly beneficial service to industries while protecting the environment as well by minimizing potential oil seepage into the soil when it is disposed of. Oil reconditioning firms provide a cost-effective method of reclaiming industrial lubricants whether on-site or in processing plants, providing tangible cost and time savings.

Used industrial fluids come from leaking systems, scheduled maintenance, or contaminated fluid. These fluids create storage and handling problems and pose an environmental threat. Many oil refurbishing firms offers on-site industrial lubricants recycling that is about half the cost of new oil.  They help clients to manage, recycle and re-use oils, minimise waste and benefit by significantly reducing costs. Used fluid decontamination is the restoring of used fluid like new or better. Other firms provide re-refining services, a more complex process that involves chemically treating the fluid, removing components including additives. Some firms can purify oil to much higher ISO cleanliness levels than new oil, and are capable of purifying oil while the client’s system are running.

The benefits of reconditioning include, reduced fluid cost, no downtime or lost production associated with reservoir change outs, lower maintenance costs, reduced equipment failures, longer equipment life; and elimination of used fluid disposal problems and costs. Most fluids except motor oils can be reconditioned. These include hydraulic oils, turbine oils, transmission fluids, refrigeration oils, heat transfer fluids, quench oils, transformer oils, synthetic fluids, machine oils compressor oils, gear oils, cutting fluids, lubricating fluids, and vacuum pump oils.