OUR SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
In recent years there has been a global move and increased desire for people and their businesses to choose more environmentally sustainable products, use less toxic ingredients, ensure sustainable supply chains and find ways to reduce their carbon footprints.
Traditionally in the lubricant industry, additives, chemicals and fossil-based energy have been essential to the manufacturing process. However, several years ago Witham Group challenged oursel... Read More
Introduction
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Trading since 1921, Witham Oil & Paint Ltd is a privately owned, family run business with its Head Office and lubricant manufacturing based in Lincoln. We also have a trade shop, decorating centre and distribution warehouse in Soham, Cambridgeshire. The business is today collectively known as The Witham Group and is now one of the UK’s leading independent manufacturers of a whole range of commercial and industrial lubricants and paints.
We are very proud of our culture and over t... Read More
We Are Making Great Strides With Our Packaging Improvements
We are reducing our impact on the environment and helping customers with their own sustainability goals... We are excited to have new packaging for our lubricant containers, made from a minimum of 30% recycled materials. This is another significant achievement for us, in an industry where traditional lubricants are packaged using plastic non-recycled containers. We’ve ... Read More
THE PROBLEM - TRADITIONAL LUBRICANT BLENDING
Throughout the world, lubricant manufacturing is typically a very high energy use, high cost and time restrictive process. Base oils and additives are often heated to various temperatures and “blended” to form the different specification and viscosity types of lubricant products for engine oils, hydraulic oils, gear oils, brake fluids, transmission oils, and industrial oils and grease products.
The necessity to improve both th... Read More
Quality products, taking care of people and their businesses, finding solutions, delivering safely on time, chatting openly about problems, building trusted relationships, going the extra mile and having fun along the way, is why we do what we do. Its also why we are still around and growing from strength to strength after over 100 years. We are passionate and proud of our business, our teams and our customers – but don’t just take our word for it - have a look what some of our c... Read More
We have been serving the automotive industry since the first cars rolled off the production line and the vehicle road traffic act came into play in 1921! Oil is the life blood of an engine, and our high-quality lubricants are specifically designed for all types of modern and classic automotive vehicles, ensuring they all keep running smoothly.
We are proud to supply garages, workshops and automotive distributors throughout the UK with a wide range of automotive products and servic... Read More
Our lubricant business was established in 1921 when the first road traffic act was passed and so we have grown and developed products that are trusted and reliable as car, tractor and transport engines have also changed. Our Classic range of products has been designed for veteran, vintage, classic and young timers’ vehicles that need a different approach to lubrication than those of a modern age.
We have a really unique historic database of knowledge of required lubricants going... Read More
The engine oil’s primary job is to lubricate the moving parts. It does this by forming a thin film over the machined surfaces of the engine’s components to prevent them from actually touching each other, and therefore causing friction, wear and damage. Lubricants however do more than lubricate – they prevent corrosion, take heat away from the combustion chambers aiding the cooling system, and remove any potentially damaging dirt particles from the engine by transmitting them... Read More
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Backed by years of experience in providing paints and coatings for industries including; industrial, woodcare and joinery, floor and line marking, decorative, marine and anti-fouling, equestrian, and many other specialists’ products, we offer market leading technical paint support to our customers.
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