Press Release – ELGI Changes
1 September 2025 - Terry Dicken, Chairman ELGI
Dear ELGI Members & Colleagues,
As many of you know the ELGI office in Amsterdam closed at the beginning of 2024 coinciding with the retirement of our long serving office manager Carol Koopman. Our office moved to The Hague and for the last year has been administered by NVG with Jacqueline Bosman as the main administrator for ELGI.
NVG was an administrator organisation servicing the needs of technical associations and institutes like ELGI. In June 2025 NVG decided that they would cease association management at the end of the year and focus more as a lobbying organisation. ELGI is a technical institute and does not enter into the field of lobbying, leaving that aspect of the industry to be carried out by other organisations.
PRESS RELEASE
The ELGI firmly supports the UEIL/ATIEL PCF calculation methodology (Methodology for Product Carbon Footprint Calculations for Lubricants, Greases and Other Specialities), highlighting our commitment to industry standards and sustainability.
ELGI supports French lithium RMOA
ELGI is supporting the joint industry position to the new French lithium RMOA that has been drafted by Eurometaux and ILiA and lithium industry leaders on the Eurometaux Li CLH Taskforce.
It has been a wonderful example of collaboration and in total fourteen associations co-signed the document.
Click here for the document
For more information please also see www.lithium.org.
New Working Groups
ELGI is consistently working to meet the challenges and improve knowledge in the grease industry in form of collaborative work. We are now opening the opportunity to propose working groups for new topics and have added a form for applicants to use in the member section. We are looking forward to receiving interesting and valuable proposals that can benefit our industry. Download form.
ELGI Sustainability Consortium
Sustainability is at the forefront of most companies’ agenda throughout most industries, none more so than the lubricants industry, with a dependence on fossil feedstock, energy reliant manufacturing procedures and significant disposal demands, the oil and lubricant manufactures and distributors are at the forefront of todays modern view on sustainability.