BOSS Lubricants: Serving Canadian companies for 30 years

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BOSS Lubricants has established itself as a top player in Canada’s lubricants industry by honouring the company’s core values implemented when it was founded in 1992: providing quality products and superior service at fair prices. For 30 years, this family-owned and operated business has grown as it navigated the roller coaster of boomand-bust economies and evolved with the times to remain on the cutting edge of the industry.

From its inception, BOSS has been proudly Canadian-owned, offering Canadian-made products that work in the diverse and often extreme Canadian climate. BOSS possesses an impressive line of products, including gas and diesel engine oils, gear oils, tractor fluids, transmission fluids, hydraulic oils, synthetics, greases, coolants, and various environmentally friendly products.

BOSS prides itself on providing a one-stop shopping experience for its customers. BOSS can fill tank trucks, drums, and totes, as well as one-litre, five-litre, and 20-litre pails. All products are tested by a third-party lab to ensure high-quality standards are maintained on every product they sell. Combining BOSS Lubricants’ vast product lines along with its strong distribution network across Canada it can reach all its customers in a quick and timely fashion. “We continue to keep expanding and growing our company over the past 30 years. We have branches in Vancouver, Edmonton, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Saskatoon, Regina, Brandon, and Toronto, while establishing 150 distributors across Canada,” says Murray Flegel, founder and CEO of BOSS Lubricants.

During this period of unprecedented growth and expansion, BOSS has had to face the challenge of ensuring that its products continue to be of the highest quality going forward, while also ensuring sufficient storage space that could facilitate increased sales. Taking on this challenge, BOSS initiated several projects and upgrades in the Calgary location.

“In the last five years, we have initiated multiple upgrades and renovations in our main location here in Calgary. Adding additional storage tanks, blending capacity and becoming ISO 9001:2015 certified has enabled us to maintain our high level of product quality and ultimately take on more sales volume,” says Jarrett Flegel, president of BOSS Lubricants.

These upgrades and renovations at the Calgary location have allowed BOSS to double the amount of private labelling with OEMs and retailers it has done over the past five years. All manufacturing, blending, and distribution are done out of the Calgary location, and as the company sales volume has grown, so has its need for increased tank storage capacity and space.

Today BOSS can boast over 100 tanks, which provide a whopping total of 3.5 million litres of product storage capacity. This large storage capacity allows BOSS to have ample supply on hand for any of the high-quality products it provides to its customer base all within a controlled indoor environment while attempting to protect its customers from unnecessary price increases.

From end to end, the renovated warehouse, plant, and office reflect the image BOSS is working hard to embody as a company: professional, wellorganized, state-of-the-art and pristine.

BOSS has grown in an ever-evolving industry for the past 30 years, but its business model has remained consistent – ongoing investment in its technology, staff, and relationships with customers as it provides top-quality products and unbeatable service. The team is celebrating three decades of service in the industry, but they are not done yet. BOSS Lubricants will continue to expand its offerings, grow the business, and elevate the branding of its impressive product portfolio into the future.