Gasoline and diesel engine oils

Why this range is quoted separately

An engine oil is the only product on this site where the label itself is regulated. An API service category is not a description — it is a registration. If your customer reads "API SP" on a pail, he can look up whether that licence exists and who holds it. Industrial oils are bought on a data sheet; engine oils are bought on a mark.

So we quote engine oils grade by grade, and we state on the quotation whether a grade is licensed or built to meet the performance level. Those are different things, and confusing them is the fastest way for a distributor to lose an account.

Gasoline engine oils — PCMO

Four service categories covering the current and previous generations of spark-ignition engines. The 0W-20 and 5W-30 grades are the ones moving in Southeast Asia now; 10W-40 and 15W-40 still dominate the older fleet and the used-import market.

ILSAC GF-6A equivalents available on the same formulations for markets that ask for the ILSAC mark instead of the API mark.

Diesel engine oils — HDMO

Five tiers from CK-4 down to CH-4. The lower tiers are not obsolete here — a fifteen-year-old excavator in a tropical market runs CH-4 on a 250-hour drain and will not benefit from a CK-4 formulation except in price.

Natural gas engines

One grade for 100 % CNG and LNG engines: 15W-40, medium ash. Gas engines run hotter at the exhaust valve seat and ash chemistry matters more than viscosity, so this is a separate formulation rather than a rebadged diesel oil.

Driveline and transmission

The part of the range that makes a shelf look complete. GL-5 gear oils to GB 13895 for differentials and manual boxes, and the OEM-specific fluids that a workshop asks for by part number rather than by name.

Packing

1 L, 4 L and 18 L in plastic, 200 L in steel or plastic drum, and bulk. Bottle shape, cap colour, handle type, shrink band and language version are yours — artwork is proofed against a printed sample before the run, not on screen.

Two packaging points that decide whether a container survives the sea freight: the closure torque and the carton drop rating. We quote both, because a leaking pallet in a tropical warehouse is a claim, not a cosmetic issue.

What we need to quote

• Service category and viscosity — one line per SKU, e.g. "CK-4 15W-40, 18 L".
• Pack and bottle type — 1 L, 4 L, 18 L, drum; and whether the bottle is round, flat or a handle-in-bottle design.
• Destination market — this decides whether the API mark can be printed, which is a licensing question, not a design question.
• Annual volume per grade — a range is enough to quote; a single number is usually wrong by the second order.

If your range also includes four-stroke motorcycle oil, mention it — that is a separate formulation and a separate pack line, and we will tell you honestly whether it is a straight match, a reformulation, or something we would rather not promise.