NEWSLETTER 02/2020 1. Iga Świątek Winner of the 2020 Roland Garros tournament! Congratulations! 2. Choice of oil and its brand for hybrid cars Selection of motor oil and its brand for use in the car with hybrid drive 3. Base oils The base oil determines the basic properties 4. Webinar LOTOS Oil has found a solution so as not to lose contact with customers at this difficult time and continues to promote the LOTOS oil brand outside Poland. 5. Changing oil in industrial assemblies Lotos Oil Service is equipped with devices for changing oil in industrial assemblies. NEWSLETTER 02/2020 Iga Świątek winner of the 2020 Roland Garros tournament! Congratulations! Iga Świątek is the first Polish woman to win the Grand Slam single championship. In the final match, after an excellent game, Iga defeated the American Sofia Kenin. The LOTOS Group has been comprehensively supporting Polish tennis since 2019. It is a Strategic Sponsor of the Polish Tennis Association, the women’s, men’s and youth teams, as well as the Polish Championships in all age categories. Since August 2019, 1 the company has also been the Main Partner of Hubert Hurkacz. Earlier, from 2017 to 2018, it was also the Official Partner of Agnieszka Radwańska. 2 NEWSLETTER 02/2020 The oil holding from Gdańsk is also a sponsor of the „PZT LOTOS Team - Nadzieje Polskiego Tenisa [Hopes of Polish Tennis]” project which helps the most talented players. The company supports National Tennis Day at the PGE National Stadium and the series of tournaments PZT LOTOS Polish Tour. The aim of the project is to help Polish players score invaluable ranking points without making long and costly trips. This year’s Roland Garros is a great achievement in the nearly 100-year history of Polish tennis. Iga Świątek is the first Polish representative to win the Grand Slam singles. And the greatest success in her career so far, being just 19 years old, is not losing a set in seven matches and reaching the semi-finals in doubles. She triumphed in Roland Garros junior doubles in 2018. A month later, she won the singles title on grass in Wimbledon and in the autumn she also won gold in the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games in doubles. All that happened shortly after a seven-month break in the game due to an injury. Before all this, in 2016, she led the Polish team under 16 to its historic first victory in the Junior Fed Cup. Soon, in February, as one of the leaders of the senior national team, she will compete with Brazil in a fight for a spot in the play off phase of the final Billie Jean King Cup (formerly Fed Cup) tournament in Bytom. So far she has participated in WTA finals once (Lugano, 2019). Before Świątek, only two Polish women had a chance to triumph in the Grand Slam. In 1939, in the French capital city, Jadwiga Jędrzejowska reached the finals, a success which was repeated by Agnieszka Radwańska in Wimbledon in 2012. Immediately afterwards, Agnieszka became the runner-up of the WTA Tour ranking for several weeks. Although Radwańska did not win the Grand Slam title, she won the WTA Finals in Singapore in 2015, a masters event featuring the eight best tennis players of the season. Three years later she ended her career with 20 WTA tournament wins in singles and two in doubles. In men’s tennis, the best singles grand-score result is the Wimbledon semi-final with Jerzy Janowicz in 2013. Earlier, he won a round in the Polish match with Łukasz Kubot. A few decades earlier, in the 1970s, in the 3 NEWSLETTER 02/2020 quarter-finals of the most important tournaments of the season, Wojciech Fibak played four times and won the Australian Open 1978 in doubles. He was followed by Kubot in 2014, who, with the Swede Robert Lindstedt, also triumphed in Melbourne. Three years later he repeated this success in Wimbledon with the Brazilian Marcelo Melo. In 2011, in doubles, Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski were close to the Grand Slam title, reaching the US Open final. This doubles, called the ‚Polish Power’ by their rivals, took part six times in the World Tour Finals, ending the ATP season within the best eight pairs in the ATP Tour ranking. And in 2011, they even reached the final at the London O2 Arena. It is worth noting that Fibak has won the Masters tournament twice, in 1976 and 1978. In 2012, Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, playing in the finals together with Santiago Gonzalez from Mexico, was close to winning the mixed game in Roland Garros. Before Świątek won the Roland Garros, Veronika Baszak reached the grand final in junior women’s singles at the Australian Open in January. Perhaps she, like other young Polish players, will soon follow in Iga’s footsteps. But Iga is not the only Polish champion. After all, Magda Linette - ranked in the first 50 WTA Tour, won the first title in this cycle in Thailand in February. Nearing the Top 100 are Katarzyna Kawa, this year’s national senior champion, Magdalena Fręch and Maja Chwalińska (both members of LOTOS PZT Team). Young players also have some great examples to follow in the men’s tour. Hubert Hurkacz, ranked in the top 40 of the ATP Tour, is already well-settled among the world’s leading players. In 2021, the Polish Tennis Association will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Świątek’s victory in Paris gives hope for further Poles’ successes on the world’s courts, both in Grand Slam and perhaps also a medal in the Tokyo Olympic Games, postponed until next year” Congratulations to Iga and best wishes of further success to all our tennis players in the 2021 season!!! 4 NEWSLETTER 02/2020 Choice of oil and its brand for hybrid cars The concept of hybrid propulsion is based on the cooperation between the electric and internal combustion engine fitted in these vehicles. During the driving cycle, the vehicle is powered alternatively by one or the other engine. From the perspective of a lubricant, the key difference between the internal combustion engine in a hybrid car, compared to that in a conventional car, is its repeated 2 starting and stopping while driving. 5 NEWSLETTER 02/2020 The oil therefore operates in a different temperature range, and there is also the risk of both water and fuel ingress into the oil sump. Motor oil for hybrid vehicles must therefore have excellent rheological properties, high oxidation stability, demulsibility and shall guarantee excellent corrosion and wear protection. These features are not new and are successfully met by modern, synthetic engine oils developed for petrol engines. To date, no requirements for quality classes included in trade specifications such as API or ACEA, have been designed for oils dedicated to lubricate engines in hybrid cars. As Toyota cars dominate the hybrid car market, oils labelled as ‘hybrid car oils’ are mainly those that meet Toyota’s latest oil requirements for such applications. Toyota, and other Asian companies, usually recommend the highest quality class of oil in API classification for their cars - including those with hybrid engines. Modern hybrid cars require, as a minimum, API SN quality oils of low viscosity, such as SAE 0W-20 and 0W-16, although many models also require SAE 5W-30 viscosity oils. For older hybrid car models which have been present on the market since the late 1990s, lower quality classes are required. In the years 2000-2005, the icon of hybrid cars - Toyota Prius - initially recommended synthetic oils of API SJ/SH class and later of SL/SJ class with 5W-30 viscosity, but mineral oils with SAE 15W-40 viscosity were also allowed. In 2005-2015, the recommendations included oils of SM/SL class, according to API in viscosity classes 5W-30, 5W-20 or 0W-20. Newer models require mainly SN class oils with SAE 0W-20 viscosity, and the latest models also require oils with SAE 0W-16 viscosity. In 2019, LOTOS Oil, as one of the Polish manufacturers, introduced into its offer LOTOS QUAZAR DYNAMIC HYBRID SAE 0W-20 engine oil of API SN/RC and ILSAC GF-5 quality intended mainly for hybrid cars manufactured after 2011. However, in many car models, other oils produced by LOTOS Oil can be used, including LOTOS SYNTHETIC C2+C3 SAE 5W-30 of API SN quality or LOTOS SYNTHETIC A5/B5 SAE 5W-30 of API SL quality. Oils of other manufacturers dedicated to hybrid cars are also available on the market, so it is worth considering the principles of engine oil selection for a given car. When selecting engine oil for a hybrid car, the most important criterion is the compliance of its quality properties displayed on the label with the specifications recommended by the car manufacturer - usually provided in the vehicle’s manual. When choosing an oil brand, it is worth remembering that the consumer enjoys a lot of freedom in this respect, which results from the principles of fair market competition in the European Union. According to those principles1: • in order to ensure proper operation of the vehicles, their manufacturers are obliged to provide information on lubricant requirements to anyone servicing or using the car, • a car manufacturer may not impose on the user the oil of his own brand or another specified brand, unless it is the manufacturer who bears the costs of the oil purchase (e.g. during the warranty repair), • a car manufacturer may, at most, recommend to the user its own or designated brand of engine oil.