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Inside the plant

Filling, packing and dispatch, filmed on the line.

01

Blending & Filling

Automatic filling into one, four, five and twenty litre packs, and into drums at the drum station.

A bank of filling heads lowered over unlabelled Vortex packs on the conveyor of the automatic filling line

Blue Vortex drums positioned under the drum filling head — Drum station

Labelled Vortex 20W50 five-litre packs moving through the line — Five-litre packs

02

Packing & Palletising

Filled packs are cartoned, palletised and strapped for distribution.

Three pallets of Vortex Ultimate 10W30 4x5 L export cartons, strapped and stacked, in a racked warehouse aisle

Strapped pallet of Vortex 4x5 L export cartons stacked to full height — Palletised

A worker moving a pallet of Vortex 4x5 L cartons with a pallet truck in the warehouse — Pallet handling

03

Drums & Bulk

Two hundred and ten litre drums, twenty litre pails and intermediate bulk containers.

Shrink-wrapped pallets of oxblood Vortex drums strapped in yellow, stacked in the yard

Row of red Vortex drums lined up against the plant shutters — Drum stock

Intermediate bulk container with a Vortex label, filled with amber fluid — Bulk container

Red Vortex drums on pallets across the plant floor, with operators and blending tanks behind — Drum floor

Wrapped pallets of blue Vortex drums standing in a racked warehouse — Racked drums

04

Dispatch & Export

Finished stock is loaded for distribution and export from the same site.

Elevated view across the warehouse floor, rows of palletised Vortex cartons stretching to the filling line at the far wall

Sea container loaded with navy Vortex twenty-litre pails and export cartons, secured with yellow strapping — Container loading

Blue Vortex drums on a pallet with a forklift alongside — Moving stock

A forklift loading red Vortex drums into a sea container from a dock ramp — Container ramp

The plant aisle with red Vortex drums either side, a forklift, and the loading shutter open — Loading bay

05

Around the plant

Labelling machine with reels of Vortex product labels mounted either side of the conveyor — Labelling

Two operators in hard hats filling an oxblood Vortex drum on a roller conveyor — Drum filling

Blue Vortex drums on the roller conveyor at the drum filling station — Drum station

Close view of a red Vortex drum lid — Drum detail

Rows of Vortex cartons on the warehouse floor — Packed stock

Pallets of blue Vortex drums in the yard — Yard

A shrink-wrapped pallet of red Vortex drums strapped in yellow on the warehouse floor — Wrapped pallet

Close view of sealed red Vortex Extreme Power 15W40 drum tops under shrink wrap — Drum tops

Blue Vortex drums on the roller conveyor beneath the drum filling machine — Filling station

A forklift carrying a pallet of blue Vortex drums past the blending tanks — Moving drums

A long aisle of palletised Vortex 4x5 L export cartons along the warehouse racking — Export racking

Red Vortex drums on pallets on the plant floor with blending tanks beyond — Drum bays

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Every product photographed on this page is made, filled and packed at the same site.

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