UKLA regrets to announce the passing of Edward ‘Eddie’ Hateley, former UEIL President, in December 2024.
Born in May 1935, Eddie (a long-term resident of Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands) was a Director of Birmingham-based Edgar Vaughan & Company Ltd, latterly Houghton Vaughan PLC.
Read moreGEIR expresses its deepest sadness at the passing of Dr. Paolo Donnabella, founder of one of its members Ra.M.Oil S.p.A., at the age of 93.
Dr. Donnabella’s pioneering work in oil regeneration began in 1962 with the establishment of Ra.M.Oil. He was also one of the founders of the National Consortium for the Collection of Used Oils in Italy (CONOU), which played a key role in shaping the industry’s future and making Italy a leader in oil collection and regeneration
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On the last day of 2023 Wilfried BARTZ passed away. Tribologists in Germany and worldwide knew the tireless “lubricant-affine” mechanical engineer and knowledge mediator from his 25 years (till 2002) as Director of the Technical Academy Esslingen (TAE, well known professional training institution in Germany) or from his numerous lectures at international congresses in East and West. He played a significant role in shaping the TAE’s educational program and was a keen lecturer in his favourite field of “lubrication technology”.
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We are sad to announce that David Neadle, former UKLA President (2003-2005), sadly passed away on 1st January 2023.
David was a UKLA Board Member 1994-2009 and Chairman of the Metalworking Fluid Product Stewardship group until 2011. He was a founder member in 1968 of the British Lubricant Federation which subsequently merged in 2005 with the UK Delegation to UEIL to become the UKLA which we know today.
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