B14 - Wednesday, April 11, 1984 - North Shore News

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VMiohawk lubes win BC awards

MOHAWK [LUBRICANTS © presentation to Mohawk at a am honoured to be able to ex
limited was awarded the Government House banquet tend the appreciation of a
B.C. Environmental held recently in Vactoria. The large segment of our society

Minister's 1983 Principal In

award was accepted on for the positive contributions
dustrial Award for their con behalt of Mohawk made by Mohawk to protect
tinuing efforts at the com- Lubricants by Fred Gingell, the environment of our
pany'’s North Vancouver president, and Roy Street, province "'
plant to institute a system vice-president and general “This outstanding effort
enabling used lubricating ou manager. demonstrates how much can

to be se-retined without caus- In
ing environmental damage.

making the award,

Brummet said, ‘In this, the

be accomphshed on behalt of
the environment

even ili da
Environment Minister, third annual award ceremony period of economic con-
Tony Brummet, made _ the since its inception in 1981, | straints,’ the minister said

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Mohawk {tubrcant's used
ol treatment plant has been
pioneering the process of
lube o1l recovery in) North
America This) state-of-the-
art plant incorporates ad-
vaneed environmentally sate
systems to meet the high stan-
dards set by the company and
VaTtious government
regulatory agencies

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nent to treat used oil, by a
process of distillation and
hydro-treatment, to produce
base lubricating o11
equivalent to, or better than
virgin oil, The few by-
products from the process are
all in Commercial demand.
With a staff of 35, the
plant has the initial capacity
to recover and market
5,400,000 htres of hydro-
treated base oils annually

Phase ll of the plant's con-
struction scheduled tor com-
pletion this year will increase
capacity to 18,000,000 hires.

To maintain a steady flow
of used oil to the plant,
Mohawk’s Used Oil Collec-
tion Service operates a fleet
of special tanker trucks col-
lecting used ot! province-wide
from service stations,
truckers, ferry fleets and in-
dustrial users

NEW LIFE

A SAMPLE of the almost clear base oi! produc-
ed at Mohawk Lubricants North Vancouver

plant is

admired by,

at left, Roy Street,

Mohawk’'s vice-president and general manager
and Mike Falconer, operations manager. Using

the latest

state-of-the art

methods an en-

Vironmentally safe system of re-refining used oil

has been developed by Mohawk.

The high

technology, capital intensive plant employing 35
people will be able to produce 22,000,000 litres
of hydro-treated base oil when Phase Hf is com-

pleted this vear

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