About SOS OIL

Welcome to SOS Oil

Owning a business, especially a small to medium sized business, is probably one of the loneliest choices, a man can make. The determination to think with power and clarity and get what you want out of life is something that is easier said, than done. Being successful does not come easily to most of us. It usually means years of long working hours coupled with a large proportion of financial risk-taking and a whole lot of decision making along the way. We face enormous pressure in an effort to meet the high service levels expected of us by our customers. We have to offer the best prices, while also finding time and money to develop our products in line with our changing world. To be truly successful, we have to use our businesses to build relationships of honesty, integrity and loyalty amongst all the people we meet daily and we need to prosper these individuals as well as the companies they are helping to build.

When you buy lubricants, are lubricants all you get from your supplier? Or do you get that little bit more. Most lubricant suppliers just supply oil or grease and nothing else.

At SOS Oil we want to give you more, so our focus is to help and assist customers to resolve machine lubrication related issues in their production environment. While we, like all businesses will always be appreciative of new customers and more business, the most satisfying aspect of our business is to be able to use our 40 years of technical expertise to help our customers and to resolve lubrication related problems. It has always been our first and most important priority - to add value to our customers business.

So, when you buy your lubricants from SOS Oil, you gain access to 40 years of technical expertise in the lubrication and manufacturing industries as well as the oil, grease or speciality lubricants that you require.

The South African economy needs to grow.
The South African economy needs to grow.  This is not a secret.  We also need to compete on the international market.  But, are we all doing what we can to ensure that we are contributing towards this economic growth.  We have a responsibility to the consumer to keep the manufacturing costs of our products down (as low as possible).

One of the contributing factors towards controlling manufacturing costs is the ability of Engineers and their Maintenance staff to carry out reliable and correct equipment maintenance and repair of the machinery they are responsible for.  This entails the following of prescribed equipment maintenance procedures and the use of the best materials and services available, such as parts, lubricants and specialist technical lubrication knowledge.

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Success stories
Plastic Packaging Industry: Kawaguchi 280 Injection Moulding Machines, The name plate on these machines had a description for a lubricant but it was incorrectly spelt. No one took the time to confirm if there was such a product on the market and therefore used a product with a similar name

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Consulting

 We assist with the development of knowledge and understanding of lubricants, specifically in the area of the client’s needs and requirements, through seminars and our consulting practice. This enables the client to make informed choices and decisions about needs and products available.

Through Oil Wise Lubrication, we provide lubrication seminars, both public and in house, to give clients greater insight, knowledge and understanding of the role lubricants and greases play in tribology. For more information, please take a look at www.oilwiselubrication.co.za

Colonel Edwin L Drake

Latest News
2011-12-02
SOS Oil is proud to anounce that we have has added Cyclo products to our product range
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2011-09-09
SOS Oil is proud to advise that we have been appointed as the Molykote distributor for ....
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2011-09-06
SOS Oil is now the South African distributor of Lanopro Environmentally Friendly Lubricants and ....
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