ISO 9001 — Quality Management System
Certified quality management covering formulation, production, testing and despatch. The system that makes batch traceability and release control auditable rather than informal.
Our Approach
Quality Is What You Can Prove, Not What You Claim
Every lubricant manufacturer says its products are high quality. The useful question is a different one: can they show you the test result for the specific batch sitting on your pallet, and can they still show it to you two years later? That is what this page is about.
Our quality system rests on three things — controlled inputs, laboratory release on every batch, and documentation that survives the journey to your customs authority. None of it is outsourced. The laboratory is inside the plant, the batch records are ours, and the person who can explain a result is on site rather than at the end of a supplier's phone line.
- Certified quality and environmental management systems.
- A certificate of analysis issued for every production batch.
- Reference samples retained so repeat orders can be verified against the batch you first approved.
How We Control It
Four Points Where Quality Is Either Held or Lost
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Incoming Material
Base oil arrives from TÜPRAŞ Aliağa and additive packages from established producers in the USA, the UK, Germany, Belgium and Italy. Both are checked on receipt rather than accepted on the supplier's word. Re-refined and recycled base stock is excluded from our system entirely — not restricted to certain grades, excluded.
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In-Process Control
Blending is carried out against an approved formulation with dosing recorded as it happens. Samples are drawn during the run, so a deviation is caught while the batch is still in the tank and correctable, rather than after it has been filled into ten thousand bottles.
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Batch Release
Nothing is released for despatch without a laboratory result. The batch is tested against its own approved specification, and if it does not meet it, it does not ship — it is held, investigated, and reblended or disposed of.
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Traceability & Retention
Each batch carries a record linking it to the formulation, the additive lot and the production date, and a reference sample is retained. If a question is raised about a shipment months after it left Istanbul, we can go back to the physical sample rather than to a spreadsheet.
In the Laboratory
What We Test, and Against Which Method
Our standard release testing follows ASTM methods, with additional tests applied according to product type. Results for your batch appear on the certificate of analysis that ships with the goods.
| Test | Method | Applied to |
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| Kinematic viscosity, 40 °C & 100 °C | ASTM D 445 | All liquid products |
| Viscosity index | ASTM D 2270 | Engine, gear, hydraulic, turbine oils |
| Flash point, COC | ASTM D 92 | All liquid products |
| Pour point | ASTM D 97 | All liquid products |
| Density at 15 °C | ASTM D 4052 | All products |
| Freezing point | ASTM D 1177 | Coolants |
| Boiling point | ASTM D 1120 | Coolants |
| pH | ASTM D 1287 | Coolants |
| Worked penetration & dropping point | NLGI grade | Greases |
| Rust test, emulsion stability | DIN 51360-2 | Metalworking fluids |
Total base number, foam characteristics, demulsibility and copper corrosion testing are applied where the product specification calls for them.
Certifications
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Documented to the Standards Your Buyer Will Check
ISO 14001 — Environmental Management System
Certified environmental management covering waste handling, storage and discharge across the site.
TSE — Turkish Standards Institution
Turkish national standards certification, held since our early years of production.
SONCAP — Nigeria Conformity Assessment
Certification for shipments into Nigeria and other West African markets operating pre-shipment conformity programmes. PVoC and COC support for other jurisdictions is arranged per shipment.
Documentation
Every Shipment Leaves With Its Paperwork Complete
A shipment held at port over a missing document costs more than the document ever would have. We prepare the full set before the container leaves Istanbul, in the format the destination market expects.
Standard with every shipment
- Technical Data Sheet (TDS) for each product
- Safety Data Sheet (SDS) in the required language
- Certificate of Analysis (CoA) for each production batch
- Certificate of Origin
Arranged where required
- EUR.1 / ATR movement certificates for preferential trade
- SONCAP, PVoC or COC pre-shipment conformity certification
- Third-party inspection by SGS, Intertek or Bureau Veritas
- Country-specific labelling and language compliance
FAQ
Quality Questions
01. Will I receive a certificate of analysis with my order?
Yes, for every batch, as standard rather than on request. It states the tested results for your specific production run against the approved specification — not a generic datasheet reprinted with a new date.
02. Can I have the product independently tested?
Yes, and several of our customers do. We will arrange third-party inspection through SGS, Intertek or Bureau Veritas at your request, and we will share our own laboratory results alongside so the two can be compared directly.
03. How do I know a repeat order matches the first one?
We retain a reference sample from every production run. A reorder is checked against the sample you originally approved, which is a stronger guarantee than checking against a specification range — a product can sit inside a specification and still behave differently.
04. Do you use re-refined or recycled base oil?
No. All base oil is virgin stock from TÜPRAŞ Aliağa. This applies across the entire range including the lowest-priced monogrades, and it is the single specification we do not adjust to meet a price target.
05. What happens if my customer raises a quality complaint?
Send us the batch number from the label. We pull the batch record and the retained reference sample, test it again, and give you the result — whether it supports our position or not. Complaints traced to a genuine production issue are our responsibility to resolve.
06. Are your certificates available before I place an order?
All of them are downloadable from this site. If your compliance department needs something not listed, ask and we will confirm whether we hold it rather than sending a substitute document and hoping it passes.
Send Our Certificates to Your Compliance Team First
Then send us the products and volumes. We will come back with a specification, a batch plan and the documentation set for your destination market.