Editor's Letter

Turkey is one of the top countries that produce the highest quality and most affordable textiles. While many textile giant brands prefer to manufacture their products in Turkey, Turkey offers them quality workmanship, low prices and easy access. Turkey, which is one of the largest suppliers of textile and apparel products especially for European countries, is therefore a large consumer of knitting machine and needle oils. In this issue, we have covered this lubricant type, which requires a lot of precision in its production.

Speedol Lubricants, which celebrates its 100th anniversary as a brand, is happy to receive approval for its two key products. Speedol Weapon Protective Oil SPD 63460 is approved by SSB and TRtest as a domestically produced weapon cleaning and protection oil for MPT- 76 and MPT- 55, which are domestically produced Turkish infantry rifles, and Speedol Aero Ultra Diesel S170 is approved by TEI- TUSAŞ as original aviation engine oil for Turkey's first domestic and national Turbodiesel Aviation Engine TEI- PD170. We asked Tayfun Koçak, the company's Chairman of the Board of Directors, about these products.

You can read the second part of our article titled “Wind turbine gears benefit from NUFLUX ™ technology”, the first part of which was published in our previous issue. In the second part of the article, written by key experts from Evonik, essential information is shared important rig and laboratory tests for industrial gear oils to ensure high performance of wind turbines.

Dr. Gareth Fish from Lubrizol discussed how the automotive greases will be impacted as vehicle systems become more and more electrified. Since the functionality of some parts will remain the same in electric vehicles and vehicles with internal combustion engines, there may not be any change in certain greases.

However, different types of grease are being developed that can be used in electric motors and high- volume batteries both for efficiency and for safe driving.

As of this issue, we have a new columnist to share valuable information on oil analysis, which can be compared to a blood test for your machines and engines. Umut Arslan from SGS Turkey Industry & Environment Department told us about the importance of oil analysis in predictive maintenance in this issue.

Here is our 32nd issue, where you can find all these subjects and many more.

Good reading.