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Castrol Malaysia and Continental Tyres Malaysia to collaborate in offering products and services

Castrol Malaysia and Continental Tyre Malaysia will be collaborating to offer consumers high quality products and services for a convenient and complete experience. The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore a joint initiative that will leverage on each other’s extensive dealer network, offerings, and expertise, and strengthen their respective positions in the country.

Under the proposed collaboration, both companies will offer motorists a combined trade loyalty programme where they can enjoy various deals, incentives, redemptions, and rewards. Both brands are also working towards a partnership that could see joint branded outlets nationwide with plans to grow and expand.

*The extensive dealer networks of each brand will share special deals, incentives, redemptions, and rewards for the public.*

“This partnership is a testament to both brands’ commitment to safety and customer satisfaction as together we join forces to further build our brand presence in Malaysia. Through our combined expertise that supports new opportunities, we will continue to lead and innovate in securing global market leadership when it comes to service and maintenance,” said Gan Wee Kiong, Market Sales Director of Castrol Malaysia & Singapore.

“There is a steady demand for both brands and our products in the market amongst the premium vehicle owners, and we saw a great opportunity for us to come together to consolidate our offerings to serve our customers better. We believe that with both brand’s long-standing service and excellence in the market, we will continue to be the preferred brands in automotive maintenance,” added Andrea Somorova, Managing Director of Continental Tyre Malaysia.

Gan Wee Kiong, Market Sales Director of Castrol Malaysia & Singapore (centreleft) and Andrea Somorova, Managing Director of Continental Tyre Malaysia (centre right) at the signing ceremony of the MoU for the two companies.

About Castrol Malaysia
Castrol has had a presence in Malaysia for over 90 years and is one of the market leaders in the retail automotive lubricants segment. The company offers a range of high-performance lubricants and has leadership positions in a majority of segments it operates in. These include passenger car engine oils, motorcycle engine oils, commercial vehicle engine oils and industrial lubricants.

The company also has a lubricants blending plant in Port Klang, Selangor and a distribution network reaching out to over 14,000 customers including retail outlets and workshops. Its exclusive outlets – Castrol Auto Service and Castrol Bike Points – offer professional maintenance services to Malaysian motorists and motorcyclists.

About Continental Tyre Malaysia
Continental is one of the world’s leading tyre manufacturers and ranks among the technology leaders in tyre production. It has a broad product range for passenger cars, commercial and special-purpose vehicles as well as two-wheelers.

In 2003, Continental AG established a joint venture company with Sime Darby Berhad as Continental Sime Tyre Sdn Bhd. The business expanded rapidly and Continental AG fully acquired the company in 2012, making it one of its production sites in the Asia-Pacific region. Currently, Continental Tyre Malaysia has more than 2,500 employees with two factories supplying tyres to countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, Korea.

For more information on Castrol products and services, visit www.castrol.com/my.

For more information on Continental Tyres, visit www.continental-tyres.com.my.

Castrol Hari Mekanik Malaysia celebrated for fourth consecutive year

Engine oil specially tailored to meet the demanding requirements

Most motorists will leave it to the authorised service centres maintain their vehicles to provide the right engine oil specified and approved by the manufacturer. Some of these engine oils have specific formulations with high quality components and additives that enable the engines to run at their best.

For those who are no longer bound by warranty conditions of the manufacturer which usually require them to use the engine oil supplied by the authorised service centre, Shell Malaysia offers a premium quality oil with proven performance – the new Shell Helix Professional range.

For demanding requirements
While the existing Shell Helix Ultra range caters to the wide and varied needs of the mainstream consumer market, Helix Professional is specially tailored to meet the demanding requirements and specifications of a select group of car engine manufacturers.

According to Shell Lubricants General Manager for Malaysia and Singapore, Nyon Kam Yew, the new Shell Helix Professional range enables the car manufacturers’ official service centres and specialist workshops to deliver more value via customised service packages to benefit their customers.

“This is yet another innovative solution from Shell, the top lubricant supplier in the world for the past 13 consecutive years and the largest provider of finished lubricants to automakers. With the new Shell Helix Professional range, these businesses can now incorporate a genuine, premium quality engine oil with proven performance from a trusted brand in special value service packages,” he said.

Two grades, fully synthetic
The Helix Professional range is available with two grades – Helix Ultra Professional ABB 5W-40 and Helix HX7 Professional SN 5W-30. Developed for high performance petrol and diesel engines, the fully synthetic Helix Ultra Professional ABB 5W-40 is formulated with Shell’s proprietary PurePlus Technology that uses a 99.5% pure base oil made from natural gas.

Both engine oils also have Shell’s Active Cleansing Technology to keep the engine close to factory-cleanliness. This technology provides resistance to physical and chemical degradation and prevents build-up of performance-robbing deposits. The wear and corrosion protection is also superior, even in extreme operating conditions.

Besides maintaining performance at high level, the engine oils provide enhanced fuel economy as well as superior sludge and wear protection to keep maintenance costs low.

Easy decision-making with new Shell Helix engine oils

Shell Malaysia Strengthens Collaboration With Enforcement Agencies To Combat Fake Lubricants

Shell can be found in virtually every country around the globe and in Malaysia, the brand has had a presence of more than 127 years. It is a trusted brand and a household name for petroleum products, lubricants and other services serving Malaysian consumers and the auto industry. This trust has been gained through ensuring strong product quality and value chain integrity.

However, popular brands will tend to attract ‘copycats’ who try to exploit such success and trust by selling fake products to unsuspecting consumers. These are sold through the black market and for companies like Shell, there has been an impact on the brand.

In 2018, Shell conducted laboratory tests on a random sample of products sold online and in hypermarkets that claimed to be genuine Shell products. The lab test results showed that 4 out of 12 containers sold were counterfeit.

*Buy Shell products at authorised Shell workshops and Shell stations where the items are guaranteed genuine.*

Helping enforcement agencies to identify fakes
As part of its continuous effort to protect Shell’s brand integrity and to ensure that customers receive only genuine Shell products, Shell Malaysia Trading Sdn Bhd is driven to strengthen its collaboration with enforcement agencies to combat the presence of lubricants that are being passed off as genuine Shell products to unsuspecting consumers and workshops.

The company recently conducted a special training workshop which was attended by nearly 100 enforcement officers from the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNDHEP) and Royal Malaysian Customs. The aim was to provide the agencies with knowledge on how to differentiate genuine Shell lubricants from counterfeit and illegal products, when conducting raids.

Shell Lubricants Marketing General Manager, May Tan, thanked the enforcement agencies for giving serious attention to this issue that has created confusion in the marketplace, threatened Shell’s reputation, and affected the livelihood of honest workshop owners.

*Genuine Shell Helix packs have a security QR code.*

“We would like to commend the authorities for their efforts in combating counterfeit lubricant production and distribution activities that affect major brands including Shell. As the brand owner, we are deeply concerned with the number of consumers who might have inadvertently purchased fake lubricants through unauthorised channels. That is why we always advise consumers to only buy official genuine Shell lubricants with ‘Untuk Pasaran Malaysia’ labels complete with QR codes that can be authenticated via SHARE website (www.shell.com.my/share) and from authorised outlets to avoid potential irreversible damage to their vehicles,” she said.

If you think you have inadvertently purchased counterfeit Shell lubricants, contact Shell Customer Service at 1-300 88 1808 or send email to generalpublicenquiries-my@shell.com.

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Contix Asia Launches UNIXX Engine Oils In Malaysia

Singapore-based lubricant specialist, Contix Asia Pte Ltd (or the Company) today introduced its range of specially formulated Unixx engine oils to Malaysians with a commitment to providing consistently high quality engineered performance at competitive prices. These engine oils use only the highest quality basestocks and are produced at ISO certified facilities in Singapore and Thailand.

Mr Tan Kok Hwee, Regional Sales and General Manager of Contix Malaysia said at the launch, “Unixx engine oils are designed to enhance the overall performance of the car and meet the highest API and ACEA standards as well as various OEM specifications, emissions and energy standards. Unixx products are tested after each production run for consistency in quality and we are confident that Unixx is an ideal product for the driving conditions in Malaysia, providing good shear stability and cleaner engines. The result is a more responsive engine and a smoother drive.”

The launch of Unixx engine oils coincide with the Company’s involvement in the upcoming Thailand Super Series which was held at the Sepang International Circuit on the weekend of March 30 to April 1, 2018.

Mr Tan shared, “We are truly privileged and proud to be collaborating with the Unixx TR Motorsports Race Team. Unixx has been tried, tested and most importantly, proven in a variety of cars participating in track racing, endurance, drag, drift and other race events in the region. These engines perform under extreme conditions protected by Unixx and we are committed to constantly improve our formulations and develop specialty grades of automotive engine oils, including our much-anticipated Racing Formula 5w50.”

“Contix Asia is in its 3^rd year as the official sponsor of Unixx TR Motorsports Race Team. We were champions of the 2017 Thailand Super Series, Supercar GTC class, competing in a 1^st generation Porsche 977 with a 3600cc engine producing 375WHP. The year prior, we were runner up in the Thailand Super Production category, racing in a Honda City. Thomas Raldorf, the team’s driver for 2018 will be racing in a 2^nd generation Porsche 997 GT3 with a 4000cc engine producing 510WHP at the Thailand Super Series race in the GTM class at Sepang” he added.

Thomas comes from a prominent racing family and has been driving competitively since the age of 10! His father, Oluf Raldorf is a very successful Rally and Circuit Racing driver from Denmark. He moved to Thailand permanently in 1997 and has been racing there since 1998, winning over 40 races in Karting, Endurance and various other race events. Please visit http://tr-motorsport.com for more information on the team.

Unixx also actively supports various local street racing events. We are the main event sponsor of GXP in Thailand and sponsor of the Unixx JMS Tuner Motorsport, racing in the Malaysian Speed Festival circuit. “We are very proud of Azri, our sponsored driver from Kajang. He only started racing a couple of years ago and finished 5^th overall in the 2017 season and 1^st in Round 1 of the 2018 Malaysian Speed Festival,” Mr. Tan added.

Also at the launch was Mr Justin Chen, Managing Director of Contix Asia, “We are constantly developing our range of proprietary products and will expand our range of products in Malaysia to include our Unixx Racing Formula engines oils. These oils are formulated with Polyalphaolefins (PAO) and come in a range of viscosities. We also have a specially formulated 5w50 fully synthetic oil for cars operating under extreme conditions like racing. For now, we will bring in our more popular range of oils which includes our fully synthetic Unixx Professional Formula 5W-40 engine oil, a synthetic blend Unixx Performance Formula 10W-40 engine oil, a 10w-30 and 15W-40 diesel engine oil.”

Unixx also produces a range of industrial lubricants which is available in China, Thailand and Myanmar. For more information, contact the distributors listed below the photo gallery, or visit the Unixx website at https://contix.co/ or follow Unixx Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/unixxmsia/ for the latest news.

For the full price list of Unixx Oils click this: Unixx Price List

For more details on the range of Unix Oils available click the links below:

Unixx PDS 5w40 fullsyn

Unixx PDS 10w30 synblend

Unixx PDS 10w40 synblend

Unixx PDS 15w40 mineral diesel

Unixx Oil Launch Photo Gallery….