Eco Fix Oil makes plant-based lubricants, penetrating oils and maintenance products for workshops, farms, forestry and industry, and sells them through its online store. Its address is Thorn Road in Wakefield, in the Tasman district. Its product range includes Breakout, a penetrating oil for freeing seized parts, Metal Protect for corrosion, Concrete Form Oil for clean release from forms, chainsaw bar lube, bike and drive chain lubes, Scaffold Coupler Oil, and a sanitiser and liquid soap. The website says one of its products carries MPI C15 and C26 food-grade approval, for maintenance on food-production equipment.
The company says it began because the maintenance products available were not always effective enough, or were not especially safe to use. Its approach is to define the result a piece of equipment needs, then develop the chemistry that delivers it, with plant-based ingredients chosen to reduce reliance on petroleum-based products. The website invites people to say what is sticking, wearing or corroding, and it links to customer feedback gathered from Google and Facebook.