Removal Of Dye From Products
Morris Lubricants is committed to supplying high quality oils, greases and lubricants to the market using sustainable methods. For many years the company has been developing and implementing an action plan to become more sustainable and to minimize its impact on the environment.
One of the actions to this plan is to review the use of dyes in its products. Some of these dyes can be harmful to the environment, so the company has decided to, where possible, start to restrict the use of artificial dye in its product formulations. In some applications, the addition of dye has no physical or chemical advantages, and its use is purely cosmetic.
Morris Lubricants is now in the process of reviewing all products that contain a dye and will remove its use, providing it does not alter the physical, chemical and ease of use of the product. Where dyes are necessary for identification of correct product type, such as automatic transmission fluids, power steering fluids, or where colour constitutes part of a relevant specification, then such products will remain dyed as per the existing formulations.
Morris Lubricants’ long-term vision is to reduce its carbon footprint and make continuous improvements to the sustainability of all its operations and across its supply chain.
As highlighted by Andrew Goddard, Morris Lubricants’ Executive Chairman “Businesses face increasing pressure to lower their environmental impact. We all need to be flexible and forward-thinking when discussing aspects of sustainability and our future business strategy. Often small improvements can have huge benefits in protecting the environment. This project to reduce the use of dyes in our product formulations builds upon our existing sustainable initiatives, which includes the utilisation of low energy LED lighting throughout our sites, use of recycled packaging and packaging that can be recycled, the use of our own solar power generated electricity and the deployment of ultrasonic blending that reduces manufacturing times and also reduces energy use”