NLGI MEMBER
SPOTLIGHT
Company: Nynas Member Category: Supplier Address: P O Box 10700, SE-121 29 Stockholm, Sweden Website: http://www.nynas.com/
Contact Name: Dr. Valentina Serra-Holm Title: Marketing & Technology Director Telephone: +0046 602 12 00 Email: vase@nynas.com
We hope you’ll enjoy learning more about our long-time member Nynas. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Nynas has shown a real commitment to innovation over it’s many years of operation. We’re proud to feature their company in this month’s edition of the NLGI Member Spotlight.
A Different Kind of Oil Company
In almost ninety years in the market, Nynas has been transformed from being a regular national oil company to a leading global corporation with a focus on specialty products. Nynas business operations started back in 1928 with the construction of Sweden’s very first refinery. During the first few decades a large number of products were manufactured for the Swedish market, including petrol and heating oil, but the focus gradually shifted and Nynas special products are now sold in niche markets in all parts of the world. In contrast to most other oil companies, which use oil as a source of energy, the focus is on products with a long service life, which in many cases can also be recycled. Nynas oils are all around us and in many cases they bring major benefits to society. These include products used in transformers and
as binders in asphalt or sealing material. But the oils are also used in a number of other contexts – as components in adhesives, rubber soles, thermoplastic and graphical paint, as well as in lubricating greases metalworking fluids, hydraulic oils and other industrial lubricants, to name but a few examples. The international focus is made possible by a global delivery network with regional hubs and a large number of local storage depots, including a recently opened depot in New Jersey, to further improve the service level and delivery performance for Nynas customers in North America. This makes it possible to deliver to virtually anywhere in the world. In addition to the global network of depots, ships and road tankers, Nynas has at its disposal sales offices in more than thirty countries as well as its own or associated refineries in Europe and America. - 30 VOLUME 80, NUMBER 3
Its own biggest facilities are the refinery in Nynäshamn and the Harburg refinery just outside Hamburg, which was recently acquired from Shell. At the moment Harburg is being converted from being mainly a fuel refinery into a special refinery. Once all the renovations have been completed in early 2016, Nynas annual production capacity will have increased by 350,000 tons. After decades of research and development work, primarily in the field of hydrogenation technology,
