Agricultural Lubricants
Gulf Agricultural Solutions
As the population grows, and an emphasis on increasing agricultural yield to feed more people intensifies, producers face greater pressure to get the most out of every harvest. Without the right care and treatment of both crops and farm machinery, growers face severe losses owing to unproductive harvests.
As a lubricant supplier for over 100 years, Gulf have the expertise to guide and navigate farm requirements and offer a rationalised approach across agriculture machinery, equipment and crop protection throughout crop cycles. Our lubricants and Multifunctional fluids are designed to ensure the smooth operation of all farm machinery, in any climate.
For us, there’s nothing more important than listening to your customers. We understand the distinct requirements of each business at every scale and we're constantly finding solutions to help growers reduce inventory management complexities and improve operational efficiencies through our lubricant ranges.
Our first commercial pesticides spray oil line for crop protection was developed over 3 decades ago. With our constant push towards research & development, we now offer solutions to organic growers that help them eliminate pests and diseases to even the most sensitive of crops, throughout the grower’s crop cycles, ensuring sustainable products that aid in preserving the quality of the produce.
Gulf Agricultural Portfolio
Agricultural Machinery & Equipment Protection
Gulf Agri Engine Oils
Gulf’s Agri premium lubricants range, with its latest technology and OEM approved engine oils, are developed for use in modern low emission engines meeting the latest US and European emission standard. Our specially formulated heavy-duty lubricants work hard to keep your engine clean and functioning at full capacity for longer, no matter what the climate, to ensure the reduced total cost of ownership.
Gulf Agri Multifunctional Fluids
Gulf Agri Multifunctional fluids are specifically designed to cover all agricultural requirements, including tractors, combine harvesters and other agricultural machinery that utilise previous and current technologies. With a wide application range of engines, gearboxes, hydraulics, and sophisticated transmissions systems, it has been developed to help avoid misapplication and simplifying servicing complexities, for improved operational efficiency.
Gulf Agri Specialised Fluids
We offer a wide range of specialised solutions to enable farm operators with their smooth operations. Our wide range of gear, greases, hydraulics oils, brake fluids, chain oils and coolants have been built to withstand extreme operating conditions, providing uncompromising performance for all types of agricultural machinery and equipment, ensuring improved durability in all extreme pressure conditions.
Agricultural Crop Protection
Gulf Agri Spray Oils
Gulf’s pre-emulsified spray oils are becoming increasingly popular due to its superior product efficacy when compared with conventional spray oils. With its high emulsifying properties, our spray oils can form more stable and effective emulsions under high-speed shearing, allowing a uniform distribution of oil droplets on the plant. This ensures the sprayed material is coated with a consistent layer of oil, resulting in improved crop productivity all year round.
Gulf Agri Adjuvants
Gulf Agri Adjuvants have a highly refined mineral oil composition with low evaporation, high penetration, and translocating properties. When added to crop protection products (including Acaricides, insecticides, and herbicides), they enhance the efficacy of the active ingredients to target, penetrate and protect the target plant, improving the overall performance of the agrochemical product. Our adjuvants ensure application efficiency during crop treatment cycles to help maximise your crop yields.
Agriculture Machinery & Equipment Protection
Agriculture - Engine Oils
Tractors are a major investment for farm operators and proper maintenance and care is essential for its longevity. With the rise in fertiliser costs having a significant impact on the sector, it can be tempting to look for alternative, lower price, oils. But this can result in significant, long-term consequences to equipment performance, ultimately shortening the lifespan of the engine and resulting in higher maintenance costs.
As a machine with many moving parts, exposure to extreme farm operating conditions and continuous usage across the year, lubrication is perhaps the single most important factor in maintaining reliability.
Agriculture - Multifunctional Fluids
Agriculture equipment application is hugely diverse with multiple mechanical variations across Agri categories. However, they all have a similar core set of engineering challenges, continuously working under enormous stressful operating conditions, severe weather and long run times.
Extreme environment exposure such as dirt, dust and rocks, as well as exposure to pesticides, fertilisers, and other chemicals, can also cause machine breakdown, limit operational efficiency and lead to increased.
Agriculture – Specialised Fluids
At Gulf, we recognise intricate farming requirements. We’re constantly learning and evolving to further improve our agricultural lubricants range to provide operators and farmers the protection they deserve.
Our range of specialised agricultural products are designed to reduce the inventory management complexities, for improved protection and operational efficiency.
From gear, greases, hydraulics oils, brake fluids, chain oils and coolants, our portfolio of specialised solutions enable farm operators consistent and smoother operations.
They’re built to withstand extreme operating conditions, provide uncompromising performance for all types of agricultural machinery and equipment and ensure improved durability in all extreme pressure conditions.
Agriculture Crop Protection
Against the backdrop of landscapes and communities being continuously affected by climate change, Agri producers, cooperatives and farmers need to produce more efficiently and sustainably whilst facing complex issues that include changing crop characteristics, soil type, weather conditions and an increase in harmful predators. Without the right care and treatment, growers could have an unproductive harvest.
Application of low quality and lesser refined crop protection products can lead to phytotoxicity within the growing plants, resulting in failure to flower, yellowing and loss of leaves, fruit fall, rotting roots and more.
At Gulf, we understand that need to balance the environment and the economy. Our organic spray oil uses only premium ingredients, allowing it to be used not only in the overwintering stages but also in full vegetation.
With its latest biological control formula it helps eliminate natural harmful predators, whilst respecting the living organisms' welfare by protecting the harmless fauna during the application treatment.
Combined with active ingredients, our adjuvants ensure the optimised quality of that application. With its, Dual Action Formula, it helps form a robust oil coating around the herbicide molecule, to prevent weeds from rapidly degrading the herbicide. In addition, it penetrates and naturally dissolves the wax covering the weed leaves, fighting the unwanted weeds for further protection. Enhancing the efficacy of the original application and allowing your pesticide to go further for even greater economies of scale.
Gulf Agri Spray Oils
Most light oils are considered to be less effective or non-pesticidal because they don’t remain on the plant long enough to suffocate the pests, while most heavy oils are considered to be hazardous to plants.
Gulf Agri Spray Oils are pure mineral based oils with highly emulsified properties, active insecticides, fungicides and Acaracides. They offer the optimal ‘narrow’ range, providing superior pesticidal activity and durability without the hazards associated with heavier oils.
This is because pre-emulsified spray oils are able to form more stable and effective emulsions under high-speed shearing. By allowing for more uniform distribution of oil droplets on the plant's surface, it guards against harmful insect pests and diseases, restricting oxygen to these harmful insects, suffocating the egg and larvae under varying climate conditions thus resulting in improved product efficacy.
Our spray oils offer low risk of phytotoxicity, allowing the plant a healthy growth for improved productivity.
Gulf Agri Adjuvants
When combined with active ingredients, Gulf Agri Adjuvants create a potent formulation that delivers highly effective pest control for a broad range of crops. They can be added to crop protection products or as solutions to enhance the efficacy of active ingredients and improve the overall performance of the product. These additives modify the properties of the spray solution, which improves the ability of the active ingredient to target, penetrate and protect the target organism.
Adjuvants can be incorporated into a formulation (built-in / in-can adjuvant) or added separately into the spray tank alongside other agrochemical products.
Adjuvants are an essential part of the delivery of active ingredients in many products. They help to optimise the performance of the ingredients, making them more effective and efficient throughout the application process which is key to ensuring a product performs to its full potential.
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