At the 24th Shanghai International Lubricants & Application Technology Exhibition 2025,Lubricant Guide visited the Booth of Shanghai Zejun Trading Co., Ltd.

During the visit, the team of Lubricant Guide had an exchange with Mr. Zhu Ming, Sales Manager of Shanghai Zejun Trading Co., Ltd., gaining insights into the company's development status.

For many years, Shanghai Zejun Trading Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Zejun") has been focusing on the international trade segment of the lubricant industry. By establishing stable cooperative partnerships with well-known international brands and enterprises such as South Korea's Daelim, Vanderbilt and ExxonMobil, the company is committed to introducing high-quality lubricant products into the Chinese market.

01 Lubricant Logistics Transformation: Opportunities and Challenges

Currently, Shanghai Zejun has become a key supplier of domestic PB products, Group IV and Group V base oils. The main products distributed by Shanghai Zejun include polybutene manufactured by South Korea's Daelim and synthetic base oils from ExxonMobil. Its sister company, Shanghai Good Cargo Trading Co., Ltd., mainly distributes additive products of the Vanderbilt brand. The products of these three international companies are leaders in their respective fields, with outstanding quality.

Affected by geopolitical factors, the duration of international maritime shipping has generally lengthened, usually taking 3 months or even longer. For distributors, this is undoubtedly a major challenge. It means that distributors need to maintain sufficient inventory to ensure delivery to domestic users even when goods arrive late.

To address this challenge, Shanghai Zejun has established warehousing facilities in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Tianjin. It offers products in various packaging formats, such as IBC tanks and tank trucks, to meet customer needs, with its services covering the entire country. Additionally, Shanghai Zejun has also exported its products to fast-developing Southeast Asian regions.

Despite numerous challenges in logistics, Shanghai Zejun has provided customers with efficient and reliable logistics solutions through intelligent, diversified, and professional logistics services.

02 Advancing Sustainable Layouts to Achieve Innovation in the Field

When facing market challenges, Shanghai Zejun has proactively advanced its development path of upgrading and transformation, improved its own supply chain system, upgraded its warehousing system, and optimized its customized services. In terms of the supply chain system, Shanghai Zejun’s supply methods cover drum packaging, IBC tanks, and other formats, realizing a diversified supply model.

In terms of its warehousing system, Shanghai Zejun has upgraded the storage method at its warehouses in Shanghai, Tianjin and other locations—shifting from the traditional drum storage to packaging-free tank storage. This improvement not only meets customer needs but also provides more reliable warehousing supply.

In terms of services, Shanghai Zejun is committed to providing customers with comprehensive services, covering aspects such as cargo supply, payment methods, and customized supply packaging. These diversified and all-round services not only meet customers' needs but also ensure supply stability to address various potential challenges in the future.

Innovation in products and technology is the fundamental driving force that promotes enterprises' strategic transformation and organizational reform, and fuels sustainable growth. Based on the underlying logic of driving sales through high-quality services, Shanghai Zejun upholds the principle of integrity to grow together with customers, and jointly creates greater value with customers in the process of product application and service delivery.

Shanghai Zejun places great emphasis on technology and has a team of senior sales engineers with rich experience. Leveraging the world-leading technologies of its cooperative enterprises, the company actively promotes domestic cooperation. Over more than a decade of customer service, it has utilized the advantages of different cooperative suppliers, integrated their strengths, upgraded the distributed products through integration, and cross-provided products to customers. This enables customers to have more flexible formula options, as Shanghai Zejun explores a development path suitable for China's lubricant market.

For example, as a new-generation polyalphaolefin (PAO) product, SpectraSyn™ MaX 3.5 boasts multiple advantages, such as low viscosity and low volatility, which can meet the needs of formulation engineers in developing new low-viscosity automotive oils and industrial oils. Meanwhile, in the field of electric vehicles, SpectraSyn™ MaX 3.5, when used as a transmission fluid, can improve oxidative stability and enhance energy efficiency.

03 Carbon Reduction Empowers a Green New Future for Lubrication

Driven by both innovation and corporate values, Shanghai Zejun has always strived to promote greener and more low-carbon lubrication solutions across various industries. These solutions reduce friction and wear during production processes, thereby conserving energy and resources while improving production efficiency.

In the future, Shanghai Zejun will continue to deepen its efforts in the lubrication field, develop higher-quality industry solutions, and work with partners to gain insights into the new trends of the industry's future development. It will continue to provide customers with comprehensive services and technical support, and join hands to move forward with concentrated efforts.

Mr. Zhu Ming, Sales Manager of Shanghai Zejun Trading Co., Ltd., and Ms. Huang Yingmei, Reporter of this Journal