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Big Time at the Port of Tacoma

Jim Harris, Port of Tacoma Nick Nesland, Sr., Hydraulic Repair and Design

The Port of Tacoma is an active port authority that provides warehousing, trucking, shipping and long-shore support in Tacoma, Washington. The maintenance team is focused on managing a large fleet of mobile equipment that is leased out an average of 2,000 hours per year, generating about $200,000 per year per piece, in revenue.

Why Hydraulic Oil is Different

by Brendan Casey for Machinery Lubrication Magazine

Here is an article link that talks about how using a higher grade Hydraulic oil saves money because of more efficient power use and reduced maintenance cost. If we expand on this to include a by-pass filtration unit, then the decision to use the more expensive oil (with higher viscosity) mentioned in this article, makes even more sense as you extend out the oil change interval.

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Making the Case for By-Pass Oil Filtration

We receive many oil samples from clients who don't understand what is required to run unusually long oil use intervals in their engines. The accumulation of wear metals, blow-by materials, and oil oxidation products in their oils is alarming. It has been our experience that one cannot simply add oil of a particular brand or base stock and expect it will be useful for an extended period of time, lubricating, cleaning, and cooling as required. Oil that becomes contaminated needs to be changed promptly. In our opinion, there are no magic oils or additives.

There are, however, auxiliary systems you can add to your engine's lubricating system that will keep the oil clean enough to use over an extended period of time. By-pass filtration units are the most common system used for this purpose.

A Growth Market In Oil Filters?

Kent’s CCECO Thinks So

By Bill Virgin

Publisher and Editor

Washington Manufacturing Alert

If there‘s a more generic, less-thought-about product

category than motor oil or hydraulic fluid, it might be the

oil and fluid filters. Who really thinks much about them,

except for the time and expense of replacing them, and

what hap-pens when they don‘t work? Not the sort of

product market, in other words, that one might see much

opportunity to build a growing company on.

Unless, that is, you‘re CCECO, a small Kent-based company that doesn‘t plan to stay small for long, if its expectations of the market for new oil and hy-draulic-fluid filtration systems prove accurate.

CCECO stands for Contamination Control Engineering Co., and contami-nation is what the company‘s products are engineered to control. By removing microscopic particles and moisture from oil and fluids, CCECO believes its fil-ters extend the time between fluid changes, thus reducing wastes to be dis-posed of, equipment downtime and maintenance costs. They also reduce the risk of costly engine and pump failure.

“When I look at the product from many angles – from the consumer angle, from the maintenance and repair guys, from the truck owners, to the business owners – there‘s many, many reasons to put our filters on their vehicles,” says James Morton, CCECO‘s president. “It‘s a no brainer business decision. When you get in front of the right people, everybody wants it.”

Is Motor Oil a Renewable Resource?

Re-refiners Say Yes

Brian Handwerk

For National Geographic News

Published June 1, 2011

Drivers think more about the gasoline or petrol they pay for at the pump than they do about the motor oil that has to be changed every few months.

But energy companies and environmentalists are focusing on ways to reduce the waste generated by this ubiquitous petroleum product. They’re even researching how the right formulas might significantly boost fuel efficiency.

Tens of millions of barrels of lubricant cycle through vehicle engines around the world each year—U.S. drivers alone produce about 1.3 billion gallons of dirty used motor oil annually. Too much of it—the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates 200 million gallons (757,082 liters)—is dumped illegally each year. Some is “recycled,” but with dubious environmental benefit; it typically ends up burned as a rather dirty industrial fuel source.

CCECO Lab & Filtration

Contamination Control Engineering Co.

(253) 872-5500

6942 South 196th Street

Kent, Washington 98032

American Bureau of Shipping.

Washington Trucking Association

Contamination Control Engineering Company