The 48th GOMA Lubricants and Base Oils Symposium

After half a century of continual working on promotion of expertise in the field of manufacturing and application of fuel and lubricants, GOMA is proud to announce the 48th GOMA Lubricants and Base Oils Symposium. The event will be held in Rovinj, Croatia, from October 14 to 16. This Symposium is the biennial event primarily focused on issues affecting lubricants industry, which also includes issues related to the development of base stocks and additives. This year event will be organised in partnership with European Lubricating Grease Institute – ELGI.

GOMA is Croatian Society for Fuels and Lubricants that works continuously for 51 years as non-profit and nongovernmental society. The main activities include organising symposia and publishing bilingual, English and Croatian, printed edition of professional-scientific journal issued quarterly.

Serious concerns over global warming and resource depletion definitely are shaping our world and influencing industrial and technological development. Consequently, requests for environmental protection and energy economy are becoming the main drivers of the lubricants development. However, many organisations put their attention only on productivity and machine reliability, so thus environmental factors and energy savings are not on the list of priorities. The main purpose of this Symposium is to offer an answer on how to reach a compromise between these, often conflicting demands and properly formulate lubricant capable to perform effective wear control and lower energy costs. It should also bring attention to the significance of lubricants selection and lubrication practice as effective way to achieve wear control and energy economy. All of these factors could be translated to considerable savings for many maintenance departments.

For the first time, the workshops will be introduced in Symposium programme as an effective way of transferring knowledge to participants. The participants are encouraged to take the opportunity to participate in these educational sessions to become more familiar with the latest developments of high performance industrial lubricants and metalworking fluids.

The Preliminary Symposium Programme could be found at www.lubricants.goma.hr/Programme.

The success of this event greatly relies on the enthusiastic and passionate work of the individuals but also on generous donations of sponsors and exhibitors. Without their support it couldn’t be possible to create incentive environment either for the participants or their partners who get a chance to experience a lot of social events and traditionally enjoy in relaxing ambience of Adriatic coast. The main idea of the organiser is to offer to all participants great place for discussion, discovering the latest industry developments and building professional network for an affordable price.

If you find this interesting and would like to support organiser’s idea as a sponsor or exhibitor, please visit: www.lubricants.goma.hr