Platinum Research Organization, Inc.(fka PLROQ)

[Tenderloin]

The "no additive" statement concerns products like Slick 50 and other OTC oil additives, not ingredients "added" to oil to make it what it is. You are having trouble separating the two

Modern oil is made up of many components besides whatever base oil is used. GrpI,II,II+, III, IV, and V are labels for base oils and have been used for years. Most "synthetics" on the market today are so called GrpIII. There are fewer GrpIV (PAO)and V synthetics mainly because of costs. To the base oils, "additive packages" are then added in order for the oil to perform properly.

The problem is not so much meeting the proposed standards for wear, mpg, sludge protection etc. The major problem lies in doing this with an oil that has less/none of the additives that contaminate the pollution equipment on the vehicle as well as the environment...all at a cost the industry and consumer can handle...hence PLRO's selling point for Techrobond.

If PLRO's product does what it says it can do...and few if any competitors can do better for about the same or less, then the company will be very successful. Still, two years is along ways off and huge companies like XM will try to meet the standards in house as opposed to licensing a product like Techrobond if they can.

PLRO does not need production facilities to make money.IF their patents are all that, companies like XM, Sopus, Castrol etc would pay fees and royalty payments to PLRO for the use of the patents so THEY can make Techrobond and add to THEIR products...No need for PLRO to make anything.

BTW GF-4 is the current standard and has been for several years. Also FEW companies produce PAO base oils. In fact XM is the largest and they sell to other oil blenders. There are also huge companies like Lubrizol that produce the additive packages for oil companies to include in their products

As far as oils being currently tested, who can say that Techrobond is not in one or more of these test oils? The website alludes to a Big 3 company testing the product NOW.

So you avoid further confusion about what motor oil and related lubricants are all about, check out this site. Much can be learned. Ask away

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