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Vertex Lubricants NZ 100% NZ owned and operated oil company. OEM approved Vertex Oils, Grease, Coolant, Chemicals. All these years later, things haven’t changed that much.

We were established in 1996 when private oil companies were pretty much unheard of. It was very much the “wild frontier” and the possibilities seemed endless. To founder, Andrew Stewart, it represented freedom — a chance to break away from the restrictions imposed on the market by a select few “major” companies. We’re still excited by Everything Lube® and, in fact, we believe our enthusiasm is one of the things that sets us apart from other oil companies. We have been servicing the NZ market for almost 20 years and plan to be around supplying the same, if not better, service for the next 20 years.

27/10/2026

30 years of doing it the long way round. We wouldn’t change a thing.

From day one, the plan was to be the independent that did the whole job. Bulk product in and packed here, the widest range on the shelf under one brand, and our own pump-over trucks taking it to the door.

A lot has changed since 1996, and so it should. That approach hasn’t.

To every customer, team member and partner who’s been part of the journey, thank you. Here’s to the next 30.

22/10/2026

Three days, one town and some seriously quick cars.

Back in September, Vertex was title sponsor of the International Rally of Whangarei.

Our team was in the thick of it, from the service park to the start ramp in the middle of town, catching up with the crews who keep these cars on the road. Thanks to every driver, crew member, volunteer and local who came out and made it a cracker.

Our heritage is in racing. Vertex started with a couple of racers chasing performance, and that same drive goes into every product we put our name on today. We're proud to see our oil out there on the dirt, doing exactly what it was made for.

🏁 VERTEX LUBRICANTS INTERNATIONAL RALLY OF WHANGĀREIThe rally weekend is almost here! From 25 to 27 September, Whangārei...
23/09/2026

🏁 VERTEX LUBRICANTS INTERNATIONAL RALLY OF WHANGĀREI

The rally weekend is almost here! From 25 to 27 September, Whangārei will come alive with classic cars, rally stages and plenty of action.

Here’s what’s happening across the weekend:

FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER

🏁 Shakedown | 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Pohe Island. Free to watch. Best viewing from Te Matau a Pohe Bridge.

🚗 Classic Car Convoy | From 2:45pm
Cameron Street Mall, Whangārei City Centre.

🏁 Official Start | 4:30pm
Join us in the city centre as the rally officially gets underway. Come early for dinner, the live band and the atmosphere.

SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER

🚗 Racing Special Stages 1 to 8 | 6:50am to 4:00pm
Free admission. Spectator information and maps: rallywhangarei.co.nz/spectators/

🚗 Pohe Island Car Show | From 3:00pm
Classic cars, food trucks and plenty of atmosphere. Details and tickets: rallywhangarei.co.nz/spectators/pohe-island-car-show/

🔥 Pohe Island Special Stages 9 & 10 | From 5:10pm
Watch the rally cars tackle two passes of the special stage. Entry via Riverside Drive from the car show or Te Matau a Pohe Bridge. Details and tickets: rallywhangarei.co.nz/spectators/pohe-island-car-show/

SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER

🚗 Racing Special Stages 11 to 18 | 7:08am to 2:00pm
Free admission. Spectator information and maps: rallywhangarei.co.nz/spectators/

🏆 Official Finish | 3:00pm
Head to the Pohe Island Service Park to celebrate the winners. Free entry.

📺 CAN’T MAKE IT? CATCH THE NZRC LIVESTREAM
Free to watch on the New Zealand Rally Championship page and YouTube channel.
Saturday: highlights from SS1 at 7:55am, then live from SS2. Back on air at 9:40am for SS3, and SS7 from 2:35pm.
Sunday: highlights from SS11 at 8:00am, then live from SS12. The weekend wraps up with the final stage, SS18, from 1:50pm.
facebook.com/newzealandrallychampionship
youtube.com/channel/UCy3ETzsxNslDkS-3APlxlyQ or nzrc.tv

Three days. One big rally weekend.

See you at the Vertex Lubricants International Rally of Whangārei. 🏁

Vertex Lubricants: The Power Behind New Zealand Industry.

20/09/2026

The first thing we do for a new customer? Find out what's wrong.

One of the biggest things we see when a new fleet comes on board is misapplication: products in the wrong compartments, or oils that don't meet the required standard. Nobody's fault, usually. It just builds up over years.

So we start with a complete fleet list. Every single vehicle, every compartment, checked against the OEM requirement and put into one easy-to-understand document. From day one, everyone knows exactly what goes where.

It's not glamorous. It's just the job done properly.

18/09/2026

Nothing leaves here that we're not 100% happy with.

Every product arrives with a certificate of analysis, and it gets checked against every characteristic and specification we expect before it's allowed in the door. Then we test again: random checks, here in New Zealand, to make sure everything matches exactly what the blender claimed.

Extra checks most wouldn't bother with. That's rather the point.

The wrong oil doesn't announce itself.It just sits in the compartment doing a quieter, more expensive kind of damage. An...
14/09/2026

The wrong oil doesn't announce itself.

It just sits in the compartment doing a quieter, more expensive kind of damage. And it's the most common thing we find when we bring a new customer on board: products in locations they were never meant for, or oils that don't meet the standard the OEM asks for.

It's rarely carelessness. Specs are buried in manuals, machines change hands, and two oils can look identical in the drum while behaving nothing alike under load.

So here's what we do about it. Every new Vertex customer gets a complete fleet list: every vehicle, every compartment, checked against the OEM requirement and laid out in terms anyone on the yard can follow. What goes where, no guesswork, from day one.

If nobody's ever run that check on your gear, it might be worth asking what's actually in there.

12/09/2026

We've never had a product failure. Not one.

That's the reason the Vertex warranty is easy to stand behind: in all our years of making oil, we've never had a failure due to product quality, and never a claim because of one either.

And if that day ever comes?

That's exactly what the warranty is there for. Protecting the customer.
It's a simple promise, and we've never had to break it.

Racing runs in this family.You hear the Hall Racing truck before you see it. A two-wheel-drive V8 ProLite with a note th...
10/09/2026

Racing runs in this family.

You hear the Hall Racing truck before you see it. A two-wheel-drive V8 ProLite with a note that carries three paddocks over, and a family behind it that we've backed for a long time now.
Kevin Hall won his championships years ago and never really left. He just moved from the driver's seat to the toolbox. These days he preps the truck, keeps the books as Treasurer of the Counties Manukau Offroad Racing Club, and there's always one more job waiting at the track.

His son Nick came up the way you'd hope: tagging along as a kid, working through the ranks, then taking the wheel. Multiple championships later, the ProLite is the envy of the paddock, and at a recent Colin Dale Motorsport Park meeting Nick ran down Mad Mike Whiddett, who had an unlimited-class machine and a lot more grunt underneath him, on the way to the win.
Nick's the club President now. Same club his dad keeps the books for. And Nick's boy Aiden has started racing too. Three generations, same paddock.

We've backed the Halls since the early days, and it was never about our name on the side of a truck. It's the preparation, the graft, the refusal to do a job quickly when it could be done properly. We recognise the approach. It's more or less how we make oil.

Good luck this season, Nick. We'll be watching. 🏁

30/08/2026

“Actions, not just words.”

Meet Chris, our General Manager. He's worked for family businesses before, and he'll tell you this one's no different: the values were instilled from day one and they still run through the place now.

For Chris, integrity has a plain meaning. If we say we're a service and customer-focused company, we have to back that up with what we actually do. Passionate team, claims we can stand behind, and values that haven't moved since the beginning.

First in a series from the people behind the oil. More of the team coming soon.

Most people don't spend much time thinking about what happens to an empty oil container once it's job is done.We do.Ever...
31/07/2026

Most people don't spend much time thinking about what happens to an empty oil container once it's job is done.
We do.

Every year, Vertex collects thousands of used lubricant containers through our take-back programme. When our trucks are delivering product, they also take back the empties with them, helping customers reduce waste and keep sites clean and compliant.

Back at our facilities, those containers begin a second life.

Through our partnership with Future Post, the plastic is processed and transformed into durable fence posts built for New Zealand farming conditions. Posts that won't rot, don't require chemical treatment, and can last more than 50 years.

Last year alone, this programme helped recycle:
Over 50,000kg of plastic packaging
Approximately 125,000 containers
Which helped produce more than 8,300 fence posts

It's not the loudest part of what we do.
But as a 100% New Zealand-owned business, we believe responsibility doesn't stop when a product leaves our warehouse. It extends to helping customers manage waste, reduce environmental impact, and protect the land we all work on.

A practical solution. A better outcome. A second life for thousands of containers that would otherwise end up in landfill.

Address

22 Marphona Crescent
Auckland
2105

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 5pm
Thursday 7:30am - 5pm
Friday 7:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+6496400004

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