Publisher’s Note

With the thrust on improvement & development of infrastructure in the country, the Cement sector is likely to get a boost. Also with multinational companies taking over a few stand alone manufacturing units, we are likely to see a systematic shift to better reliability practices. Lubrication being an integral part of reliability, more emphasis is likely to be given to Lubricants and Lubrication practices in the cement plants.

Every Cement Plant operates differently and will have its own existing lubrication strategies, preference, historical problems which are not insurmountable, Planned Maintenance requirements, management structure and type of workforce available, but there will be an optimum solution in respect of the lubricants selected, the equipment utilised to apply those lubricants, and the eventual Planned Maintenance regime, which can quite efficiently be combined with appropriate condition monitoring techniques wisely utilised. It is always advisable to analyse a large industrial plant, such as a Cement Plant, as a single entity so that both lubrication, and condition monitoring, strategies are perfectly co-ordinated with maintenance regimes to ensure that existing, or newly revised, Planned Maintenance systems are perfectly matched. In this way management can operate their plants more efficiently and make them more cost effective. Your publication “Machinery Lubrication India” participated as Media Sponsor for 4th Base Oil & Lube Middle East 2015 (22-23rd April 2015) at Abu Dhabi and 3rd ICIS Indian Base Oils & Lubricants Conference (21-22nd April 2015) at Mumbai. Both the conferences had a host of very good speakers on topics such as economy, trends of base oil rates, logistics, lubricants, their development growth and international marketer’s perspective of the Indian market, supply/demand scenario, emission norms, OEM perspective, trends and opportunities in additives and growth of synthetic lubricants etc.

This is the second issue of your magazine which is Industry specific, the first one being the Jan-Feb 2015 issue which had a cover story on Steel Plant Lubrication. We are extremely encouraged by the response and will be doing more issues which would be industry specific. We propose to have the upcoming issue (July-Aug 2015) with a cover story on “Mining Sector requirements of lubricants and lubrication services”.

We welcome readers to participate by sending their feedback & contributing articles and case studies.

Warm Regards,

Udey Dhir