Investment in their home plants are set to boost supply for Oando and Univar.
Nigeria's Oando has invested more than $1m on its operations at its Kaduna plant. This includes boosting its filling capacity to 100 million litres of lubricants annually, including one litre packs.
In addition, the company is helping the Nigerian Government's battle to combat the trade in adulterated products by including a device to check counterfeiting of its products including its high performance Oleum brand. The device takes the form of a seal and spout cap on its product containers so that consumers can ensure the lubes have not been previously opened and replaced.
Meanwhile in Scandinavia, Swedish-based Univar has invested some €1.5m ($2.1m) in its lubricants depot to boost its storage capacity. The lubes and chemical distributor will be able to handle more than 10m litres of lubes annuallya once the modifications are complete, with the new volume being met by Shell's European operations.
Univar will also invest in new laboratory facilities on the site for lubricants testing as well as designing temperature-controlled tanks and pipes.