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Lube-Tech Opens Engine Testing Facility

Test-Tech is a new, state-of-the-art engine-testing service for engines up to 1,500 horsepower and includes cells designed for marine engines.
Lube-Tech Opens Engine Testing Facility
Technicians man an engine testing booth at the new Test-Tech facility in Golden Valley, Minn. Courtesy Lube-Tech

For more than 20 years Lube-Tech of Golden Valley, Minn., has offered engine-testing and fluid validation services to its private-label lubricant customers, which include a number of the major manufacturers in the marine engine business. Now Lube-Tech has launched a brand-new engine-testing facility, Test-Tech, committed to engine and fluid validation. In addition to testing and validating engine fluids, the new facility will be used during the fluid development process and also will be available for contract engine testing. This facility features 13 cells capable of testing engines up to 1,500 horsepower, and includes a 60-ton water cooler cell dedicated solely to outboard engine testing. The new facility is complete with advanced safety and security features that help protect customers’ intellectual property.

“Test-Tech is a recognized leader in engine testing in the powersports, marine and outdoor power equipment industry,” said Eivind Stenersen, Lube-Tech’s Vice President of Technology. “This best-in-class facility will revolutionize our testing capabilities, allow us to offer individualized services throughout the industry, and help us maintain our role as an indispensable partner to our customers. This is another way we are helping make tomorrow a little bit better than today for our customers.”

Since 1925 Lube-Tech/Lubrication Technologies and its family of companies have produced and distributed millions of gallons of lubricants, fuels and chemicals for customers in the transportation, automotive, industrial and small-engine markets. Lube-Tech is present in more than 70 countries with operations throughout the Midwest, in Shreveport, La., and Langenthal, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.lubetech.com.

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