Large grease batches usually take longer to make than small grease batches.  This is because the vessel’s jacket area does not increase in proportion to the mass of the contents.

Small batches of grease are normally made in a single vessel. However, big batches are quite often made using a two-stage process where saponification (making the soap thickener in oil)

Surprisingly large and advanced manufactures in the chemical industry still physically empty bags of powders into process vessels via the manway. This can create a dust cloud that either contaminates

One of the biggest problems with putting a grease plant into a light industrial unit is the amount of headroom available. Historically,  run major companies fitted  grease manufacturing plants in

Contrary to intuition, you need simpler and thus cheaper equipment to manufacture the more expensive complex greases, than cheaper mono-soap greases. Calcium grease, the cheapest type, foams badly during saponification

Sometimes it is necessary to change processes to improve productivity.  However, there is a concern that the finished product may look different to the customer, even if the performance is

The Fears “Can we use this?”, asked the client when pointing to the two grease kettles during a recent commissioning visit, “without using this?”, when pointing to the two control

You can anticipate most technical and financial problems that could arise in an engineering project, but there can also be the totally unexpected ones that trip you up later. Here

If we were asked; “What is a typical commissioning visit like?”, we would be tempted to reply; “There is no such thing as a typical commissioning visit”. Although there are

They say “You Live and Learn” and for us what we have learnt in recent years of managing grease manufacturing plant projects, is that the client’s major issue is often