Lube Oil, Grease & Plastics Machinery FAQ

You can buy it directly from the manufacturer, LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA), which designs and builds lubricant manufacturing machinery at its own works in Additional Ambernath MIDC, Ambernath (East), Maharashtra 421506. The range covers lube oil blending plants, grease plants, filling and packaging lines, kettles, drum decanting units, drum heating ovens and thermic fluid heaters. Call or WhatsApp +91 98670 80329 to visit. See the full product range.

Order from a manufacturer that designs, builds and tests the plant in Maharashtra itself. LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) builds lube oil blending plants from 1 KL to 1,000 KL per day at its Ambernath works near Mumbai, runs a factory acceptance test before dispatch, then installs and commissions the plant on your site. You get one contract and one responsible team.

LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) builds grease manufacturing plants from a 50 kg pilot batch to 100 MT per day at its factory in Ambernath, Thane district, near Mumbai. Plants are built to order for your grease types (lithium, lithium complex, calcium, calcium sulphonate, polyurea, bentone) and daily output, rather than sold off the shelf. Single grease machines are also available.

LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) manufactures lubricant filling and packaging equipment in Ambernath: 2-head semi-automatic to 14-head automatic fillers (up to 60 bottles per minute), linear and robotic cappers, induction cap sealers, labellers, coders, carton tapers, pail, drum and IBC fillers, robotic case packers and stretch wrappers. See filling machines and lines.

Buy them direct from LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) at Additional Ambernath MIDC. Models run from the LP-2X 2-head semi-automatic filler for start-ups to the LP-14X 14-head automatic line, plus drum and barrel fillers for 25 to 210 litre drums and 1,000 litre IBCs. Machines are trial-run at our works before dispatch, and you can witness the test in person or on video.

LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) designs and builds extrusion blow moulding (blow molding) machines in Ambernath, Maharashtra: double and single station machines for 50 ml to 6 litre bottles, accumulator head machines for 10 to 210 litre containers, L-ring drum machines (100 to 250 L), water tank machines (500 to 5,000 L), 1,000 L IBC machines and semi-automatic PET stretch blow moulders. See blow moulding machines.

LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA), Ambernath, near Mumbai, supplies servo-hydraulic injection moulding (injection molding) machines from 90 to 1,500 tonnes clamping force as complete cells: machine, mould, hopper dryer, mould temperature controller, water chiller, robot or conveyor take-out and scrap granulator. Typical products are caps and closures, lubricant pails, crates, and household and automotive parts. See moulding machines.

LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) in Ambernath (Mumbai region) supplies injection moulding machines, moulds and auxiliaries and sizes the machine to your part: 90 to 168 t for caps and closures, 218 to 328 t for pail lids, handles and 5 to 10 L pails, 428 to 650 t for crates, buckets and 20 L pails, and 850 to 1,500 t for large crates, pallets, dustbins and automotive panels.

LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) builds grease manufacturing equipment in Ambernath, Maharashtra: pressure grease kettles (50 to 5,000 kg, 5 to 6 kg/cm² with vacuum, 300 °C), atmospheric cooling kettles (1,000 to 6,000 kg), colloid mills (3 to 30 HP), vacuum deaerators, the LP-95 grease homogeniser (3 MT/h), grease filling machines and drum decanting units, as single machines or complete plants.

Cost-effective means a plant sized to your grades and output, bought direct from the manufacturer, with the scope written down. LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) designs and manufactures in-house in Ambernath, starts from 1 MT per day skid plants, and quotes a techno-commercial offer with a line-by-line scope and client-scope list, so there are no surprises at site. A basic small lube oil blending plant starts at around INR 50 lakhs (cost guide).

A lubricant plant needs base oil and additive storage, drum decanting units and drum heating ovens, a blending system (automatic batch, inline or simultaneous metered blending), a thermic fluid heater, filtration, a QC laboratory, and a filling and packaging line. The right mix depends on how many grades you make, your daily volume and your pack sizes. LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) supplies all of it under one contract.

For downstream petroleum and specialty chemical products, LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) in Ambernath supplies turnkey plants for lubricants, greases, brake fluids, coolants, transformer oil, VI improver concentrate, liquid soaps and detergents, LPG cylinders, used-oil re-refining and inline fuel blending. We do not build refinery or cracker units. See process plant projects.

Yes. LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) has its engineering office and manufacturing works in Additional Ambernath MIDC, Ambernath (East), Thane district, in the Mumbai region. Buyers from Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Pune and the rest of Maharashtra can visit the works, see plants under fabrication and attend factory acceptance tests. Call +91 98670 80329 to book a visit.

Yes. LINUS plants and machines run in more than 20 countries. Nigeria is our largest market, served by our office at KM 15, Phase II Plaza, Jakande 1st Gate, Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos. A sales representative covers the UAE and the Gulf (+971 54 478 6962). Other markets include Kenya, Algeria, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq, Nepal and South-East Asia.

Yes. Plants and machines are fabricated and tested at our Unit 2 works in Additional Ambernath MIDC. You can visit by appointment to see machines under fabrication and witness the factory acceptance test (FAT) in person or on live video before dispatch. Plastics machines are trial-run with your material and mould.

LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) is an ISO 9001:2015 certified turnkey plant engineering company established in 2014 in Mumbai. We design, manufacture, install and commission complete lubricant, grease and specialty-chemical production plants, filling and packaging lines and plastics processing machinery, and support them for the life of the plant.

Unit 1 (registered office): Plot No. N-86/3, Bohonoli Village, Anand Nagar Additional MIDC, opp. CEAT Tyres, Ambernath (East), Maharashtra 421506. Unit 2 (manufacturing): Plot B-73/1, Jhambivali Village, Additional Ambernath MIDC, Ambernath (East) 421506. We also have a sales and project office in Lagos, Nigeria and a sales representative in the UAE. See contact details.

The company was established in 2014 in Mumbai. It is led by Mr. Abul Khattab M A, Founder and CEO, an engineer who leads process design, project execution and client partnerships, and Mr. Vijay S. J., Managing Director, who leads manufacturing, fabrication, quality, factory acceptance testing and dispatch at Unit 2.

More than 240 plants and machines since 2014, for more than 48 clients, from first-time entrepreneurs to national oil marketers, in more than 20 countries. Many clients have come back for their second and third projects. See our clients.

Yes. Our quality management system is certified to ISO 9001:2015 (QROcert 305026082159q) and we hold CE certification (OCI Cert CE/1158); CE-marked equipment is supplied on request. Material test certificates, stage inspections and documented factory acceptance tests are standard. See our certificates.

We have 2,600 m² of engineering and manufacturing space in two units at Additional Ambernath MIDC: a 500 m² registered office and engineering unit (Unit 1) and a 2,100 m² manufacturing unit (Unit 2) with a fabrication bay and EOT crane, where vessels, skids, frames, platens, heads and control panels are built and tested.

Clients include independent blenders, national oil marketers, chemical groups and first-time entrepreneurs, such as ASAD Energy, Trustlub, SEEPCO, Masters Energy, Eraskon Nigeria, Balmerol, Dozzy, HydeEnergy, Bovas, Gandhar, Mainland, Delta Corp, Al Nabidh, Purechem, Nepal Lube Oil Limited and Lake Lubes. See the client list.

Lubricant and grease producers, oil marketers, brake fluid and coolant makers, transformer oil processors, home-care (liquid soap and detergent) makers and LPG cylinder manufacturers. On the plastics side: bottle and container makers, lubricant and edible-oil packers, chemical, agro and pharma companies, water tank makers and first-time entrepreneurs setting up a plastics unit.

You can meet our team at the Asian Lubricant Exhibition (ALE) in Kuala Lumpur, OTL Africa Downstream Energy Week in Lagos, Lubricant Expo Europe and Lubricant Expo North America, or visit our works in Ambernath, Mumbai region, by appointment.

Call or WhatsApp +91 98670 80329 or +91 98670 80330, email sales@linusprojects.com, or send an enquiry through our contact page. For Nigeria, contact our Lagos office; for the UAE and Gulf, call our sales representative on +971 54 478 6962.

LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA), based in Ambernath, offers turnkey EPC project management for lube oil blending, grease, brake fluid and coolant, transformer oil and related plants. One contract covers process design, P&ID, fabrication, automation, factory testing, shipping, installation, commissioning, training and after-sales support.

Yes. LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) is based in Ambernath (East), Maharashtra, and provides turnkey project management for lubricant, grease and related plants in Maharashtra, across India and overseas, from enquiry to the first saleable batch.

LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) executes turnkey lubricant plant projects across India and abroad: nine stages with one responsible team. You see the P&ID before steel is cut, the plant running at our works before it ships, and our engineers on your floor until the first saleable batch is packed.

Our in-house scope covers process design (PFD, P&ID, mass balance, utilities and plant layout); vessels, skids and piping in MS IS 2062 or SS 304/316 to ASME codes; PLC-SCADA, MCC and HMI panels built and tested in-house; filling and packaging; supervised erection, piping, cabling, commissioning and trial runs; and full documentation, including drawings, datasheets, IOM manuals and FAT reports.

One point of responsibility, a faster start-up, equipment and automation designed to work together, one contract with a written scope, and operator training and support from the same team. If something does not work, one company fixes it. Read more in benefits of turnkey project management.

Normally the client arranges civil works, utilities and raw materials for trials; for lube oil blending plants, storage tanks, the laboratory and the air compressor are usually client scope too. The exact split is written line by line in every offer, so both sides know what is included.

Nine stages, one responsible team: Enquiry (products, capacity, site). Concept and P&ID (process flow, layout). Engineering (GA, structural, electrical). Fabrication at Unit 2, Ambernath. Factory acceptance test at our works. Shipping with export packing and documents. Installation, erection and commissioning. Training for operators and chemists. After-sales: warranty, spares and upgrades.

Yes. Skid-mounted plants are pre-piped and factory-tested with the least site work (1 to 20 MT per day). Modular platform plants put vessels on a steel platform with walkways and expand module by module (10 to 100 MT per day). Multi-storey gravity-flow plants keep base oils on top, blenders at mid-level and filling at ground level, with minimum pumping (40 MT per day and above).

Yes. Modular platform plants are designed to expand module by module, and we size layouts and utilities for the plant you plan to have, not just today's output. We also add blenders, VI improver sections, automation and filling lines to plants already running.

Yes. Every plant is tested at Unit 2 before it ships: hydro tests, trial runs with water or oil, load-cell calibration and panel I/O checks, witnessed by the client in person or on video. Plastics machines are trial-run with your material, your mould and your bottles before dispatch.

It depends on capacity, level of automation, tank farm, filling lines and site work. A basic small-scale plant of about 5 to 50 MT per day starts at around INR 50 lakhs; larger and more automated plants cost more. See the lube oil blending plant cost, sizes and capacity guide and ask us for a techno-commercial offer for your exact scope.

The price depends on daily output (from a 50 kg pilot plant to 100 MT per day), the grease types (complex greases need pressure kettles), finishing equipment (colloid mill, deaerator, homogeniser), heating and filling. Send us your grease types and target output and we usually return a techno-commercial offer within a week.

Send your product slate (grades and pack sizes), target output per day and the space you have; for plastics machines, send container drawings or samples, target output and available power. We return a process flow, a layout on your plot and a techno-commercial offer with a line-by-line scope, usually within a week (one to two weeks for plastics lines).

Ordering takes seven steps: Send an enquiry with your grades, pack sizes and daily output. Review our process flow, layout and techno-commercial offer. Place the order with the advance. Approve the P&ID and GA drawings. We fabricate the plant at Unit 2, Ambernath (Mumbai region). Witness the factory acceptance test. We ship, install, commission and train your team. Start on our contact page.

Lube oil blending and process plants: typically 10 to 24 weeks from advance, depending on plant size. Brake fluid and coolant plants: 10 to 16 weeks. VI improver kettles: 16 to 24 weeks. Thermic fluid heaters: 6 to 22 weeks by size. A three-line LPG cylinder plant is a 35 to 40 week programme. Plastics machines: 6 to 7 weeks (up to 5 L), 6 to 18 weeks (10 to 210 L) and 22 to 28 weeks for drum, tank and IBC machines.

Yes. Kettles, colloid mills, homogenisers, blenders, decanting units, drum ovens, fillers, cappers, thermic fluid heaters, tanks and control panels are all available as single machines, replacements or upgrades for an existing line. See equipment.

Yes. We ship with seaworthy packing, container-fitted skids and modules and complete export documents, with CIF or CFR shipping on request. LINUS engineers carry out site erection and commissioning worldwide, and support the plant remotely after start-up.

No. Our quotations are competitive and transparent. Every techno-commercial offer lists the scope of supply line by line together with the client-scope items, so the price covers what is written and there are no surprises at site.

Yes. We share progress photos during fabrication and invite you to witness the factory acceptance test at our works, in person or on video, before the plant is packed and shipped.

A lube oil blending plant (LOBP) blends base oils with additive packages into finished lubricants such as engine, gear, hydraulic and industrial oils, tests every batch, and fills the oil into bottles, pails, drums or IBCs. Oil companies, independent lubricant brands, private-label blenders and large industrial users run them. Read what a lube oil blending plant is used for.

In six steps: 1. receive base oils into day tanks; 2. dose additives on load cells; 3. blend and heat with dual-speed agitation; 4. test viscosity, flash point and TBN; 5. filter and store through pigged finished-oil lines; 6. fill and pack into bottles, pails, drums or IBCs.

From 1 KL to 1,000 KL per day. Our standard configurations run from 1 to 250 MT per day, and intermediate and larger plants are engineered on request. Small plants are usually skid mounted; 40 MT per day and above usually use a modular platform or multi-storey layout.

Automatic batch blending charges base oils and additives by weight into a blending vessel under PLC-SCADA recipe control. It suits multi-grade plants with frequent changeovers and additive-rich recipes: 10 to 500 MT per day, 0.5 to 20 KL batches and an accuracy of ±0.1 to 0.25 % of batch. Changeover is by line flushing or CIP, with an optional pigging system.

Inline blending meters base oils and additives continuously through flow meters and a static mixer, straight to storage or packing. It suits high volumes of a few grades: up to 200 m³/h with an accuracy of ±0.25 to 0.5 % by flow, and recipe changes at the controller.

Simultaneous metered blending meters all components at once into a common header under ratio control, using a Coriolis mass-flow meter on each stream. It gives ±0.1 % per stream at up to 200 m³/h, and changeover is instant with no vessel wash.

Choose automatic batch blending for many grades and frequent changeovers, inline blending for large volumes of a few grades, and SMB when you want inline speed with batch flexibility. For start-up plants and pilot lines of 1 to 20 MT per day, a semi-automatic plant (pumps and flow meters, additives added by hand, ±0.5 to 1 %) is the lowest-cost option. One control system can run all of them.

Load cells on blenders and additive dosing tanks weigh to ±0.1 %, and Coriolis mass-flow metering reaches ±0.1 % per stream. Typical accuracy is ±0.1 to 0.25 % of batch for automatic batch blending, ±0.25 to 0.5 % for inline blending and ±0.5 to 1 % for semi-automatic plants.

Lubricant blenders run from 500 to 20,000 litres working volume, in MS IS 2062 or SS 304, jacketed and insulated, with aerofoil-blade agitators on a bottom tripod (5 to 30 HP) and load cells for weighing.

By a thermic fluid heater sized to the plant: about 100,000 kcal/h for 1 to 2 MT per day, 200,000 kcal/h for 10 to 20 MT, 600,000 kcal/h for 40 MT, 800,000 kcal/h for 50 to 100 MT, and 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 kcal/h for 150 to 250 MT per day. Small skids can use electric heating instead.

Insulated jacketed blenders, base-oil gear pumps (5 to 20 HP), basket filters (200/50 µm), recirculation pumps, automatic and manual valves, additive dosing tanks on load cells, skid or platform structure, piping to ASME B16.5, instruments and gauges, a PLC + MCC panel (SCADA optional), filling, capping, sealing, coding, labelling and cartoning, a drum filler, drum trolley and lifter, pallet truck and thermic fluid heater.

It holds a recipe library with locked formulations and operator levels; controls base-oil transfer, additive dosing and heating automatically; weighs on load cells and meters by Coriolis mass flow to ±0.1 %; logs batch reports, consumption, yield and alarm history; and gives LINUS support engineers remote access when you allow it.

10 MT/day: 2 × 2,500 L blenders, a 2,500 L VI improver kettle, 200,000 kcal/h heating and a 4-head filling line with barrel filler, on a skid. 50 MT/day: 2 × 10,000 L + 5,000 L blenders, a 5,000 L VI section with shredder and inline mixer, 800,000 kcal/h, an 8-head line, robotic capper and barrel filler, on a modular platform. 100 MT/day: 2 × 15,000 L + 2 × 10,000 L blenders, a 15,000 L VI section, 12-head and 8-head lines and two barrel fillers.

A compact plant built and pre-piped on a skid, tested at our works and installed plug-and-play with the least site work, for 1 to 20 MT per day. A 1 MT per day skid, for example, has a 500 L blender, electric or 100,000 kcal/h heating and a 4-head filling line with a 25/200 L barrel filler. See skid mounted lube oil blending plant.

Drum decanting units (200 L drums, barrel pump, weighing platform, 2,000 LPH), IBC decanting machines and drum heating ovens (4, 12 or 24 drums, 60 to 80 °C) bring additives to a pumpable state. Additive dosing tanks on load cells then transfer them into the blender by weight.

No. Grease needs its own plant with a pressure kettle, cooling kettle, colloid mill and deaerator. Many lubricant makers run both, and LINUS PROJECTS supplies both.

Base oil, fatty acid and alkali slurry are charged into a pressure kettle and saponified at up to 200 °C; the soap is transferred to a cooling kettle, diluted with oil and cooled, with additives added at about 80 °C; it is then milled in a colloid mill and deaerated under vacuum, tested for penetration and dropping point, and filled into cartridges, pails or drums. Read the grease plant buying guide.

From a 50 kg pilot batch to 100 MT per day: pilot and laboratory plants (50 to 500 kg per batch, electrically heated, skid mounted), semi-automatic plants (1 to 5 MT per day, manual valves and PLC heating control) and fully automatic plants (5 to 100 MT per day, SCADA recipes and load cells).

Lithium, lithium complex, calcium, calcium sulphonate, polyurea and bentone (clay) greases, and petroleum jelly. Complex greases are cooked at 190 to 210 °C under nitrogen within the 5 to 6 kg/cm² rating of the pressure kettle.

Saponification at 95 to 120 °C, then dehydration at 150 °C; lithium greases peak at 195 to 200 °C under pressure; complex greases 190 to 210 °C under nitrogen; additives are dosed at 80 to 90 °C in the cooling kettle. Soap is transferred by gravity with a nitrogen assist of 0.3 to 0.5 kg/cm².

The cooking reactor of a grease plant: 50 to 5,000 kg, rated 5 to 6 kg/cm² plus vacuum and 300 °C, with a contra-rotating anchor agitator and wall scrapers, thermic fluid limpet coil heating, 75 mm Rockwool insulation with GI cladding, and lug mounting on load cells (±0.1 %). See grease kettles and reactors.

We size the cooking kettle at about 50 % and the cooling kettle at 100 % of daily output. A 5 MT per day plant, for example, has a 3,000 kg pressure kettle and a 5,000 kg cooling kettle; a 10 MT per day plant has a 5,000 kg pressure kettle and two 5,000 kg cooling kettles.

The three-stage rotor-stator colloid mill (3 to 30 HP, SS 304, water-jacketed) disperses the soap evenly for smooth texture and consistent penetration; the vacuum deaerator removes entrapped air before filling. Milling and deaerating systems run from 10 to 30 HP. See milling and deaerating system.

A high-pressure homogeniser for 20 to 100 MT per day grease plants: 3 MT/h at 250 kg/cm², 40 HP, for NLGI 1 to 3 greases. See grease homogenizer.

By thermic fluid at 100,000 to 600,000 kcal/h depending on output (about 100,000 kcal/h for 1 MT per day, 300,000 for 2 to 3 MT and 600,000 for 5 to 10 MT per day). Pilot and laboratory units use electric heaters.

Yes. The 50 kg pilot grease plant has an electrically heated kettle, mill and control panel on one skid, and laboratory plants handle 50 to 500 kg batches for product development and small runs. See laboratory model grease plant.

Auger fillers handle 50 g to 5 kg packs such as cartridges and tubs, and drum fillers handle 18 to 180 kg. Larger plants run automatic cartridge, pail and drum lines with carton taping. See grease filling machine.

Cone penetration (penetrometer) for NLGI consistency, dropping point, oil separation and copper strip corrosion.

Start with your pack sizes and the output you need in bottles per minute, then the oil viscosity, filling accuracy and how often you change packs. Add the downstream stations you need: capping, induction sealing, labelling, coding, cartoning and palletising, and leave room to grow. Read how to choose lubricant filling and packaging equipment.

LP-2X 2-head semi-automatic (500 ml to 25 L, 10 to 12 BPM at 1 L); LP-4X 4-head (1 to 5 L without change parts, 12 to 14 BPM); LP-6X 6-head servo volumetric (24 to 28 BPM); LP-8X 8-head with KRACHT flow meters and B&R PLC (38 to 40 BPM at 1 L); LP-10X (44 to 46 BPM); LP-12X (48 to 50 BPM); LP-14X 14-head (up to 60 BPM at 1 L). See filling machines.

The LP-14X 14-head automatic filling line runs up to 60 bottles per minute at 1 litre, with twin cappers and dual induction sealers and labellers.

The LP-2X 2-head semi-automatic filling machine. It fills 500 ml to 25 litre packs, including pails and cans, at 10 to 12 bottles per minute at 1 L or 2 per minute at 20 L.

The LP-1X linear capper and LP-800 robotic bottle-tracking capper handle 20 to 60 mm caps at up to 45 bottles per minute. The Ignite-I Air IGBT induction cap sealer seals 20 to 100 mm necks at up to 32 per minute.

Yes: two-side labellers, CIJ or 30 W laser coders for batch, MRP and QR codes, carton tapers (200 to 800 cartons per hour), robotic case packing machines, robotic palletizers and the LP-SW-2000T stretch wrapper.

With the LP-DF-210E drum and barrel filler and the LP-DIF-1500S 4-drum pallet and IBC filler: 25 to 210 litre drums at 15 to 24 drums per hour with ±0.1 % accuracy on load cells, and 1,000 litre IBCs. See barrel filling machine.

Yes. A 2-head flow-meter-based pail filler and capper fills 10 and 25 litre pails, and the LP-SW-2000T stretch wrapper wraps the finished pallets.

Yes. The LP-4X fills 1 to 5 litre packs without change parts, and the LP-2X semi-automatic filler covers 500 ml to 25 litres. Automatic lines are matched to your pack range and hourly output.

Yes. Brake fluid lines use piston fillers, and coolant lines use servo gear-pump fillers; the 4-head servo coolant filler handles 100 ml to 5 L at 32 to 36 BPM at 100 ml, followed by linear cappers and an IGBT induction cap sealer.

Yes, 1 to 120 MT per day turnkey plants for DOT 3, DOT 4 and DOT 5.1 brake fluids and IAT, OAT and HOAT coolants and antifreeze: SS 304/316 blending vessels of 1,000 to 20,000 L, holding vessels of 5,000 to 10,000 L, a DM or RO water plant (1 m³/h to 5,000 LPH), flow meters and load cells, and PLC + MCC control. See brake fluid and coolant plants.

Brake fluids are hygroscopic and coolants are water-based, so both need stainless wetted parts, dry filtered DM water (below 5 µS/cm) and short, fully drained transfer lines. Our plants keep separate vessels and fillers for each product while sharing the water plant, control panel and laboratory.

Plants are designed to produce brake fluids meeting FMVSS 116, SAE J1703 and IS 8654, and coolants meeting ASTM D3306. QC covers equilibrium reflux boiling point, wet boiling point, pH and viscosity for brake fluid, and freeze point, pH, reserve alkalinity and specific gravity for coolant. Typical delivery is 10 to 16 weeks.

A low-temperature, high-vacuum purification plant that restores breakdown voltage and removes moisture and gas from insulating oil (IS 335). We build 300 to 18,000 LPH, with standard models from 1,200 to 10,000 LPH, giving below 5 ppm moisture, at least 70 kV BDV at 2.5 mm gap (IEC 60156 / IS 6792), below 0.1 % gas and 1 µm final filtration. See transformer oil filtration unit.

Oil is pumped through a magnetic strainer, heated to 40 to 60 °C by low-watt-density heaters, pre-filtered at 20 µm, degassed and dehydrated in a two-stage vacuum chamber (better than 0.2 Torr), optionally reclaimed through ionic and absorbent columns, and polished through 1 µm absolute 3M Cuno cartridges.

Yes. Reclamation plants use activated-alumina ionic and absorbent columns to remove acids, sludge and colour and bring aged oil back to new-oil values. Transformer oil manufacturing plants make 25,000 to 40,000 litres per day from base stock. Filtration units come on a weatherproof skid, wheeled trolley or trailer.

A plant that shreds, dissolves and stores your own viscosity index (VI) improver concentrate: a 15 HP twin-shaft shredder (300 to 500 kg/h), a jacketed dissolving kettle of 5,000 to 15,000 L and a high-shear recirculation mixer (10 m³/h at 4 bar). OCP dissolves at 130 to 140 °C and PMA at 90 to 110 °C, in 4 to 8 hours. See VI improver plant.

Multigrade engine oils need 5 to 12 % VI improver. Dissolving solid OCP or PMA bales in your own base oil replaces imported liquid concentrate with a product you control, and the same kettle can double as a pour-point depressant or additive pre-mix vessel. A single-kettle skid ships in one 40 ft high-cube container.

Yes, 1,000 to 10,000 litres per day, for hand wash, dish wash, floor and glass cleaners, car shampoo, liquid detergent and toilet cleaner: SS 316 jacketed mixing vessels (500 to 5,000 L) with anchor agitator and high-speed homogeniser, RO/DM water below 20 µS/cm, 40 to 70 °C heating for LABSA neutralisation, a dedicated acid-resistant line for acid products, and fillers for 100 ml to 5 L.

Yes. Complete press-to-paint lines making 500 to 1,000 cylinders per day per line, for 3, 5, 6, 12, 12.5, 14.2, 19, 35, 47.5 and 50 kg cylinders, built to IS 3196, ISO 4706, EN 1442, DOT 4BA or national standards from 2.0 to 3.2 mm IS 6240 / SG 295 steel. See LPG cylinder manufacturing plant.

Ten: steel coil blanking, deep drawing (300 to 600 T presses), trimming and joggling, bung and foot-ring MIG welding, circumferential submerged-arc (SAW) welding, normalising at 900 to 950 °C, hydrostatic testing at 30 kg/cm², shot blasting, painting and printing, and valving with leak test. A three-line plant is a 35 to 40 week programme.

Coil-type, liquid-phase thermic fluid heaters from LPI-TFI-100 to LPI-TFI-2000 (100,000 to 2,000,000 kcal/h, 300 °C, 89 ± 2 % efficiency on NCV) fired on LDO, FO or gas, and electric hot-oil systems from 12 to 360 kW (up to 309,600 kcal/h, 270 °C). Fired heaters come complete with burner, blower, circulation pump, expansion tank, fuel day tank, chimney and prewired panel.

As a guide: LPI-TFI-200 (200,000 kcal/h) for 10 to 20 MT per day skid lube plants and VI kettles; TFI-300/450 for 2 to 3 MT grease and 30 MT lube plants; TFI-600/800 for 5 to 10 MT grease and 40 to 100 MT lube plants; TFI-1000/1500 for 150 to 250 MT lube plants and hot oil for inline blending.

LINUS heaters are coil-type, liquid-phase units with a seamless MS ASTM A-106 Gr. B coil and forced circulation. They are non-IBR designs: no steam and no water treatment. Operation is single-button, with low-flow, low-level and high-temperature cut-outs and digital temperature control.

Yes, on request. Used-oil re-refining plants recover base oil from used lubricating oil by vacuum distillation. Capacity and process options are engineered after we review your feedstock; please contact us with your volumes.

Yes. We engineer inline fuel blending skids for diesel, petrol, jet fuel and biofuel blends on request, and edible oil processing plants from 1 to 100 MT per day.

Three: extrusion blow moulding for HDPE and PP bottles, jerrycans, drums, tanks and IBCs; PET stretch blow moulding for water, juice and edible-oil bottles and 5-gallon jars; and injection moulding for caps, closures, pails, crates and household and automotive parts. LINUS PROJECTS (INDIA) builds all three in Ambernath. Read types of plastic moulding plants.

Extrusion blow moulding melts HDPE, LDPE or PP into a parison that is inflated inside a mould, for hollow containers from 50 ml to 5,000 L. PET stretch blow moulding heats an injection-moulded preform and stretch-blows it into a clear bottle (500 ml to 20 L). Injection moulding injects melt into a closed mould to make solid parts such as caps, pails and crates.

Choose the model by the container: LPI-1000 runs 250 ml to 1 L, LPI-3000 runs 1 to 3 L and LPI-5000 runs 2 to 6 L. The double station version gives nearly double the output of the single station: for example, the LPI-1000-DS makes 400 to 420 bottles per hour at 60 g against 220 to 240 for the LPI-1000-SS.

A continuous parison head feeds two alternating moulds: one blows while the other opens, so a single extruder gives nearly double the output. The LPI-DS series has five models for 50 ml to 6 L, from 650 to 720 pieces per hour (200 ml class) to 260 to 270 per hour (5 L class), runs HDPE, LDPE and PP with regrind, and delivers in 6 to 7 weeks.

When output needs are moderate, floor space is tight or it is your first machine. The LPI-SS series uses the same extruder, parison head and controls in a compact single-mould frame, with a lower connected load (the 1 L machine runs on 29 HP total) and weights from 1.5 t. Multi-cavity heads (2, 3, 4 or 6) raise output without a second station.

A machine for 10 to 210 litre jerrycans, carboys and open-top drums. Its FIFO accumulator head stores a full shot of melt (1.5 to 14 kg) and pushes the parison out in one fast stroke, so heavy parisons do not sag and wall thickness stays even. Eight models run from LPI-10 to LPI-210-OT; the LPI-20, for example, makes 35 to 40 jerrycans per hour at 1 kg.

Yes. The LPI-210-L, high-output LPI-210M-L and three-layer LPI-210M-3L make 100 to 250 litre L-ring drums at 24 to 28 per hour (8.2 kg), with a 90 t clamp and 1,650 mm daylight. Drums are 100 % leak-proof and clear drop and stack tests to UN packaging requirements; the three-layer model runs a recycled core between virgin HDPE skins to cut raw material cost. Delivery is 22 to 24 weeks.

For volume production, blow moulding is much faster: cycles take minutes instead of the 45 to 90 minutes of rotational moulding, it runs on granules with no pulveriser, and tanks are lighter with even walls. Our WT series makes 500 to 5,000 L tanks in three layers (UV-stabilised black outer, foam or recycled core, white food-grade inner) or four layers with a view strip.

Yes. The LPI-1000-IBC blows the 1,000 litre inner bottle of a standard pallet IBC in HMWPE/HDPE at about 10 per hour (21 kg shot), with a 120 mm grooved-barrel extruder, 32 kg FIFO accumulator head, 400 mm parison control cylinder and 150 t clamp. A complete IBC line with cage welding, pallet, valve fitting and leak testing is available. Delivery is 24 to 28 weeks.

Yes, semi-automatic two-step machines for 500 ml to 20 L bottles: preforms are heated in an infrared oven with independently controlled lamps and stretch-blown in a separate clamp. The 5-gallon model blows 7 to 20 L jars at up to 80 bottles per hour from a single cavity, with PLC timing to 0.01 s and a finished-bottle waste rate below 0.1 %.

As a first filter: 90 to 168 t for caps, closures and cosmetic parts; 218 to 328 t for lubricant pail lids, handles, toys and 5 to 10 L pails; 428 to 650 t for crates, basins, buckets, chairs and 20 L pails; 850 to 1,500 t for large crates, pallets, dustbins and automotive panels. We then check shot weight, projected area, mould size and cycle time against your part drawing.

Yes. Servo-motor driven pumps draw power only when the machine moves, sharply cutting energy use and oil heating compared with fixed-pump machines. A five-point toggle clamp and low-pressure mould protection come standard. For blow moulders already running, a servo-pump retrofit lowers power draw by 25 to 40 %.

Yes. Blow moulds (aluminium or steel, with drilled cooling channels and replaceable pinch-off inserts) and injection moulds are machined alongside the machine and tried on it before dispatch. We also size and supply air compressors, hopper loaders, colour mixers, water chillers, cooling towers, leak testers and scrap granulators as one line.

Every machine has the LINUS PLC/HMI platform: colour touch screen with recipe storage, cycle diagnostics and alarm history (Siemens, Delta or B&R options), a multipoint parison programmer (B&R, MOOG or Beckhoff, 100 to 400 points), servo or VFD drives, PID temperature control and an Ethernet port for remote diagnostics.

Small and medium blow moulders run HDPE, LDPE and PP, including blends with regrind from your own granulator. Drum, tank and IBC machines use grooved-barrel extruders for HMW-HDPE grades. PET stretch blow moulders run PET preforms.

Typically: offer in 1 to 2 weeks; manufacturing 6 to 24 weeks depending on the series; trial and dispatch 1 to 2 weeks; sea freight 3 to 6 weeks; installation and training 1 to 3 weeks. Air freight and phased deliveries are possible when a line has to start earlier.

A 12-month warranty on supplied equipment, or 18 months from supply, whichever is earlier, plus lifetime technical assistance for every machine we build.

Yes. Installation and commissioning are supervised by LINUS engineers, with hands-on operator training. For plastics lines we run production trials at your plant and sign a hand-over protocol recording the achieved cycle time and output.

Yes. Operators and chemists are trained during commissioning and beyond. Plastics training covers start-up and shut-down, mould change, parison programming, quality checks and maintenance (hydraulics, electrics, PLC fault-finding), taught on your machine in English or Hindi.

Yes. Our engineers are reachable 24×7 by phone, WhatsApp and video. With your permission, they can read alarms and parameters remotely through the Ethernet-ready PLC/HMI or SCADA and guide your team through a fix the same day.

Fast-moving spares such as heater bands, thermocouples, seals, solenoid valves, filters and contactors are held in stock in Mumbai, and every plastics machine ships with a recommended two-year spares list. Lube and grease plants are covered by lifetime support for spares and upgrades. Export packing and courier to site are routine.

Process flow diagram, P&ID, equipment list, GA drawings, plant layout, structural design, electrical SLD and panel GA, equipment datasheets, piping MTO, installation, operation and maintenance (IOM) manuals, the FAT report and training material. Plastics machines add SOPs, hydraulic circuits and foundation and utility drawings.

Yes. We add blenders, automation and filling lines to running plants. For blow moulders we offer servo-pump retrofits, multipoint parison programmer upgrades, second-cavity heads, in-mould labelling, automatic deflashing and leak testers, view-strip or multi-layer heads and new PLC/HMI panels, plus re-commissioning after a plant move.

Yes: scheduled preventive maintenance visits, re-commissioning after a plant move, mould trials for new containers and refresher training when your team changes.

A group where operators and plant managers from LINUS plants in different countries talk every day with each other and with our engineers, so a problem posted in the morning often has an answer from another plant within hours.