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CASTROL BIO RANGE

HIGH-PERFORMING, MULTIPURPOSE ENVIRONMENTALLY ACCEPTABLE LUBRICANTS**

High-performing, hardworking lubricants are a critical component of efficient, profitable vessel operations. But in a world of ever-stronger environmental legislation, you may prefer Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants (EALs)**.

 

Castrol Bio Range products have been created to meet demanding global environmental legislation challenges; their use provides confidence wherever your ships operate around the world.

Protect your equipment

Maintain operational efficiency

Support your environmental targets

Keep things simple for crews

Helps you stay compliant

Castrol Bio range 

Reliability meets Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants**

A range of high-performing, multipurpose EALs** that help you deliver the equipment protection you depend on and that can also support your sustainability goals.

 

Castrol Bio Range products meet the requirements for being an EAL** under 2018 US Vessel Incidental Discharges Act (VIDA) based on the 2013 US Vessel General Permit (VGP).

Castrol BioTac MP2

Next generation environmentally acceptable multipurpose extreme pressure grease** to simplify your onboard operations.

Castrol BioTac OG

Environmentally acceptable open gear grease** with excellent resistance to wash-off.

Castrol BioStat

Environmentally acceptable stern tube and gear oil**, with outstanding performance when compared with mineral oils.

Castrol BioBar

Environmentally acceptable hydraulic oil**, which can replace conventional mineral oils in hydraulic equipment where there is a perceived risk of egress into the marine environment.

Castrol bio range EALs** are part of the PATH360 family

Castrol’s PATH360 is our holistic sustainability program, expanding sustainable thinking into every facet of our business.

  • Saving waste
  • Reducing carbon
  • Improving people’s lives

 

Castrol marine bio range products are committed to certified carbon neutral*** in accordance with PAS 2060 from 2021.

See the Castrol bio range brochure
*In accordance with PAS 2060, see www.castrol.com/cneutral for more information.
**A lubricant, including any oil or grease, that is ‘‘biodegradable,’’ ‘‘minimally toxic,’’ and ‘‘not bio accumulative’’ as defined by US VGP 2013.
***The CO2 emissions are calculated in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Product Life Cycle Standard and include life cycle emissions. The demonstration of carbon neutrality is assured by an Independent Third-Party and certified to BSI’s PAS 2060 carbon neutral specification. See www.castrol.com/cneutral for more information.