21/09/2020 Press release
World : Total Strengthens Its Presence in the Industrial Lubricants Market
Paris, September 21, 2020 – Total Lubrifiants, the world’s fourth-largest international lubricants company, announces the acquisition of Lubrilog SAS.
Lubrilog SAS is a French company, based in Romans sur Isère, specialized in the formulation and production of very high-performance synthetic lubricants. The high-quality products of Lubrilog are tailored to specific customer needs and able to meet a wide range of extreme technical constraints.
This acquisition will create value for both Total and its customers. It will strengthen Total Lubrifiants’ position in the industrial lubricants market bringing a high level of expertise for critical applications in some key sectors such as mining or cement and materials.
With this customer-specific range of products, Total Lubrifiants broadens its high-end products portfolio to offer customers a fully integrated solution on a worldwide scale.
“I am glad to welcome Lubrilog in the lubricants team of Total”, says Pierre Duhot, Senior Vice President at Total Lubrifiants. “Thanks to our international presence, our teams and engineers around the world will be able to leverage Lubrilog’s high end technical solutions for the benefit of our clients. This step is fully aligned with our strategy to develop technologies and to be the partner of choice of our customers. This range of products is also in line with Total’s Climate Strategy and the Group’s ambition to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 and to reduce the carbon footprint of its customers”.
Signing Ceremony, Nanterre. From left to right: Florian Rouby-Giraud, CEO Lubrilog, Pierre Duhot, Senior Vice President Total Lubrifiants and Pascal Clement, GM Lubrilog.
Total has a long-standing history of providing value-added lubricants and maintenance solutions to the industry while meeting the highest safety and environmental standards.
About Total Lubrifiants
Total Lubrifiants is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of lubricants. It has 42 production plants worldwide and more than 5,800 employees in 150 countries. Total Lubrifiants offers innovative, efficient and environmentally responsible products and services developed by more than 130 researchers at its R&D centers. Total Lubrifiants is a partner of choice for the automotive, industrial and marine markets.
About the Marketing & Services division of Total
The Marketing & Services division of Total develops and markets products primarily derived from crude oil, along with all of the associated services. Its 32,000 employees are present in 107 countries and its products and services offers are sold in 150 countries. Every day, Total Marketing Services serves more than 8 million customers in its network of over 15,600 service stations in 71 countries. As the world’s fourth largest distributor of lubricants and the leading distributor of petroleum products in Africa, Total Marketing Services has production sites all over the world, where it manufactures the lubricants, bitumen, additives, special fuels and fluids that sustain its growth.
About Total
Total is a broad energy Group, which produces and markets fuels, natural gas and low-carbon electricity. Our 100,000 employees are committed to better energy that is safer, more affordable, cleaner and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in more than 130 countries, our ambition is to become the responsible energy major.
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Total Lubrifiants Contact
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