Prime Lube has started manufacturing BlueSKY Diesel
Exhaust Fluid (DEF) at its new 15,000 square-foot manufacturing
facility in Avenel, NJ.
The plant will produce four million gallons of Diesel Exhaust
Fluid (DEF) per year and has capacity to increase production as the
market grows.
Robert Arbasetti, Prime Lube's Chief Operating Officer, said:
"We're very excited to be up and running, producing our own BlueSky
Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) for shipment directly to our growing
network of distributors. With this local facility Prime Lube is
able to offer a strategic advantage in terms of pricing and
distribution capacity with our own fleet of trucks. And, through
our strategic partnership with Piusi, we can also offer the best
Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) dispensing equipment in the business,
along with the tanks and other handling equipment our distributors
require."
The facility has a semi-automatic bottling line that packages
BlueSky Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) into 2.5 gallon bottles, 55
gallon drums and 275 gallon totes. Packaging is labeled in English,
Spanish and French to enable multi-national marketing and
distribution.
Roman Hewko, VP of sales and marketing at Kruse, said the
location of the plant would help reduce logistics costs: "This
plant is the third Kruse Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) facility in the
US and the first in the Mid-Atlantic region. This strategic
location, in close proximity to Boston, New York City and
Philadelphia, will allow for more efficient distribution and lower
transportation costs to these large metropolitan areas, resulting
in a significant price advantage for Mid-Atlantic distributors and
their customers."
In April, Prime Lube announced
a partnership with Germany's Kruse Group to manufacture and
distribute BlueSky DEF throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Kruse
supplied the new plant with equipment and raw materials necessary
in the production of Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF).