Refinery Maribor is the oldest Slovenian
lubricants producer with 87 year tadition.

HISTORY
Established in 1922. Refinery Maribor develops and produces lubricants in cooperation with end-users and world-wide leading additives producers.

Year 1922
Company was established and named “Maribor refinery for mineral oil and chemical factory” - MARA. Beside petroleum, MARA was producing vaseline and petroleum based resins.

Year 1933
MARA was transformed to company for mineral oil production and trading under the name MOTOROIL. From trading company during the period between 1933 and 1935,
the company became the smallest Yugoslavian refinery. It had 40 employees and was producing 3kt, with introduction of continuous distillation process.

Year 1937
Production increased to 15t per day. Since then, the production was increasing and it reached 12kt in 1995, as a record year.

Year 1947
MOTOROIL was renamed to: Factory for
Crude Oil Distillation and Used Oil Regeneration

Year 1952
The factory worked as a part of JUGOPETROL,
later on PETROL Ljubljana

Year 1974
The company was transformed and named
“RAFINERY” MARIBOR as a part of Slovenian PETROL Ljubljana

Year 1985
Used oil regeneration was discontinued and more ecologically acceptable production processes were remained

Year 1990
Complete renovation of all blending facilities, packaging line and storage places.

Year 1991
Joint Venture between OMV and Petrol was established. Company was renamed to OMV - MAPETROL. The production reached its record at 12KT and there were arr. 50 employees

Year 1996
MAPETROL stopped cooperation with OMV and since then it has been doing business independently under the name MAPETROL. That year the company was ISO 9001 certified

Year 2008
The name of the refinery was changed to its present name - Refinery Maribor.

MAPETROL - Refinery Maribor produces lubricants, greases and related products for wide spectrum of usage - PCMO / HDMO / GEAR OILS / INDUSTRIAL / GREASES / OTHER

PRODUCTION - Aside from Mapetrol production, Refinery Maribor, as a part of Valvoline CEE group, produces under license agreement also Valvoline products as well as it blend lubricants for 3rd party customers, i.e. private labels.

LABORATORY - Having sophistically equipped laboratory Refinery Maribor is performing standard oil test and analysis, providing fast and reliable technical support to its customers.

FACILITIES

Raw materials storage:

Aditives: 200 T, Base oils: 1.400 T, Coolants: 350 T

Blending line:

Capacity of minimum 20KT per year (depending on packaging mix)

Filling line for small packs with pallet packaging and Drum filling line Capacity: 100T per day

Finished goods warehouse:

Capacity: 1.000 pallets and more than 300T in drums