Heritage Construction + Materials’ Post

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US Aggregates is a construction materials business based out of Indiana. We've got 20 locations across the state where we're mining limestone. We also have several sand and gravel locations. We're making products for ready mixed concrete, hot mix asphalt. The glass industry within the mining industry is quite common to have crushers, screens, feeders, lots of conveyors. We run everything from yard loaders, pit loaders. We've got several haul trucks, excavators. Lubricants are critical. To any operation like this, they basically reduce the friction between metal to metal contact points on the vehicles you're looking at not only engine blocks, cylinders, the Pistons, you're looking at all the drivetrain components all the way to where the wheels are spinning on the ground. Lubrication is the the cornerstone to any good maintenance program. At one time we used to do 250 hour oil changes. We proposed a product mobile Delvac Modern that would move them out to 1000 hour drain intervals. I honestly didn't think 1000 hour oil change in our industry were really feasible. This equipment gets put to the test every single day. The W drain program is a mobile lubricant initiative. The idea is to move their current drain intervals and basically double that. And we provide them with the data analytics to help them actually make that decision and back up that choice. And once they saw the potential for multiple queries and different pieces of equipment, they immediately jumped on board. If we can save two or three oil changes, that's huge. Mobile has such a reputation in the industry. That has not been exactly difficult to get my guys to switch over since doing the double your drain and switching it to 1000 hours, that's just that much more up time that I can have down in the hole and keep this site going, freeze up there mechanics to do other work. And allows them to save money by not having to have equipment out of production. So US aggregates actually came to us with one of their aspirational needs being provided chemical reason why we can consolidate. We have way too many products. Before we started using mobile grease, we had multiple different grease types on site. There was constant discussion over whether or not we were using the right stuff. We weren't all on the same page. And so our engineering team consolidated those down based on product type, thickener type compatibilities and actual performance. In their operation and then we presented those findings to their leadership team and showed how that could save the money and save them time. We looked at the five sites across the East and we had 11 different greases Mobile dug into this and determined that we could take that those 11 down to three. Everybody was pretty excited to know that we can not only simplify things, that we're moving to a really premium product. They're continuing to track our equipment through oil samples, through some thermal camera imaging the engineers are working with us to detect. Real delusions, I wear metals, any kind of additional wear. Not only does that improve the uptime of my equipment and the productivity, that's that many less times that I have a mechanic who has to be underneath the machine. And so the safer it is for our employees, the longer intervals, the less oil changes that's going to help with waste oils that are produced from the equipment less that we have to dispose of truly helps us on that sustainability journey as well. I love the fact that it's just a few graces that we have to get, just one person we have to talk to to get it here. I'm always confident that it's going to arrive. It's going to be the right stuff. That's one less thing that's on the table for me to take care of. We've had such great success that we're planning on spreading our use of these products across the whole company.