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FUCHS LUBRITECH takes another decisive step into the digital age. The tablet has superseded manufacturing instructions on paper thus reducing error rates, improving work safety and ensuring smooth production processes.

FUCHS PETROLUB SE, the world's largest independent manufacturer of high-quality lubricants and related products, acquired the business of Dallas, Texas-based wireless sensor technology company Fluid Vision Technologies, LLC for less than EUR 1 million.

FUCHS PETROLUB SE, the world's largest independent manufacturer of high-quality lubricants and related products, is opening a new plant with a quality and research laboratory in Beresfield, Australia. The state-of-the-art facility, which was built over a period of 18 months, will replace the FUCHS plant in Wickham, Newcastle, which has been operating since 1979.

After intensive preparations and discussions the Management of FUCHS LUBRITECH and FUCHS LUBRICANTS SOUTH AFRICA have created the foundation of a LUBRITECH Division Southern Africa from 1st January 2018.

Since the acquisition of Lubrasa Food Grade Lubricants in 2014, FUCHS has had a Food Grade manufacturing facility in South Africa. This plant has now successfully awarded the ISO 21469 accreditation and so customers can benefit from the highest food safety standards met by these products, which will form part of our global CASSIDA Food Grade Lubricants portfolio.

We are proud to announce that we have successfully passed the annual re-certification audit for our Kaiserslautern CASSIDA manufacturing plant on July 24, 2017.

In the latest issue of the New Food Magazine, Eddy Stempfel (Global Product Manager CASSIDA) gave an interview about current challenges and future developments of food grade lubricants.

Strong growth, rising staff numbers and the acquisition of CASSIDA are only some of the reasons why space for production, laboratory, warehouse and administration facilities at FUCHS LUBRITECH in Kaiserslautern is exhausted. Several building plans, for example a warehouse expansion including a second fully automated high-bay storage for about 10,000 pallets, shall provide a remedy.

As part of this year's Christmas party the management of FUCHS LUBRITECH called their employees to a charity campaign for "Alt-Arm-Allein" - an association that supports needy seniors in the city and the county of Kaiserslautern. About 100 volunteers help fellow citizens over 60 years who depend on basic financial security and also take time for them.

Out of more than 800 participating companies, FUCHS won the first place in its first application to achieve the German Sustainability Award in this year for the category “Germany’s most sustainable medium-sized company 2016.”