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At the end of 2009 hocem has entered into a contract with Simon Storage at its Immingham Terminal located on the East Coast of England. Simon is handling two grades of mineral Base Oil for hocem. A light Base Oil is stored at ambient temperature in a tank recently constructed by Simon as part of its ongoing investment in the Terminal’s infrastructure, and two heated tanks are allocated to the storage of Heavy Base Oil.

Simon has upgraded the existing road loading systems and gantries at the Terminal to meet the customers requirements and to ensure full compliance with specific safety and environmental standards. This includes fully integrated road tanker overfill detection and prevention systems, and emergency shutdown facilities.

Stock and transaction processing of hocem product at the Terminal is managed by TASCS, Simon’s exclusive terminal automation and stock control software. TASCS offers clients instant access to account data from any computer via a web browser over the internet. Customers can place dispatch and delivery requests remotely and access accurate product reconciliation information in real time.
In Simon Storage hocem has a modern and reliable partner in Great Britain.

For further information visit www.simonstorage.com.

For the third year in succession hocem again is Gold Sponsor of the annual ICIS World Base Oils Conference taking place in London on February 19th and 20th.

We follow this tradition as we always enjoy highly interesting discussions with our customers as well as other market players and company delegates with whom we yet have to enter into business relationships.

We are sure to enjoy interesting topics presented by highly skilled speakers and the inspiring get-togethers in-between.

We kindly invite to meet up at our hocem stand near the refreshment area and are looking forward to welcome you!

Whilst hocem continuously works on its performance, due to increasing demand, we had to make necessary adjustments in our logistical setup to keep a satisfactory efficiency towards our customers in both the export and the retail market.

Since 3rd quarter 2008 we have additional storage capacities at LBC Terminal Antwerp, Belgium. LBC is a highly sophisticated storage with heatable tanks, well experienced in the handling of base- and luboils including latest loading facilities for trucks and rail tank cars directly on the vessel and by means of using a fully implemented computer system ensures timely loadings.

We are operating, supply and distribute the full product range at following terminals:

• Antwerp Belgium
• Eastham UK
• Liepaja Latvia
• Tallinn Estonia and
• Reni Ukraine.

With these storage capacities we are able to keep a high flow of base oil throughput in line for our clients demands.

For the 2nd time hocem sponsored the Vintagecars Race “La Carrera Panamericana” in Mexico. The rallye was founded by the mexican government in 1950, took place till 1954 and after a long interruption again from 1988 till today, being the longest and hardest rallye in the world.

The hocem chairman Mr. Albrecht Haase and his wife Christine again took part with a Jaguar MK 1 / 1958. The race was spectacular in all regards. First the car had engine problems that they were able to fix after receiving spares from Houston Texas. Disappointing enough, last day the windshield cracked, so that was the end for the hocem MK 1. Nevertheless the team won twice the 2nd place in its group out of the days it actually raced.

After this turbulent race it´s a question of honor and a simple MUST to drive the Panamericana this year 2009 again!

feel free to contact us or visit www.lacarrerapanamericana.com.mx.

Mr. Albrecht Haase

It is almost tradition – hocem is again gold sponsor of the yearly ICIS World Base Oils Conference taking place in London from 21st February to 22nd February 2008.

We are looking forward to interesting days with market relevant topics, meetings with leading companies and inspiring get - together.

Our company will be represented by the chairmen Mr. Albrecht Haase and Mr. Adalbert Marschalkowski and our London based sales representative Mr. Tomas Giedraitis.

They will be available for you at our hocem Meeting Point near the refreshment area.

Mr. Adalbert Marschalkowski

Those people who do not know us so far can learn more about our company and our Managing Directors on the ICIS conference website under the topic “Companies to Meet”.

There you will get a first impression of our company, our services and our members.