View From The Bridge - Bulletin 103 (Jun 09)


Welcome to our streamlined look at lubricants industry news.

In addition to providing our streamlined look at industry news, we also want to include original and thought provoking content that addresses some of the challenges we all face.

In this issue I have invited Apu Gosalia (Head of Strategic Marketing at Fuchs Petrolub AG) to communicate his thoughts on the relationship between lubes demand and the movement in the GDP of key nations across the world and how this differs across mature and developing markets. Following the recently reported 29% fall in German exports in April, you may find Apu's white paper download The GDP effect on lubricants demand particularly relevant. 

Sebastian Crawshaw, Chairman, OATS.