Cadillac Oil
13650 Helen , Detroit, Michigan, United States

Every Cadillac Oil team member shares our core values : hard working, resourceful and professional. Over the past century, we have collectively harnessed these attributes to develop new technology and processes, resolve intricate customer challenges and build tremendous loyalty. As we look to our next century, these core values will remain intact, embraced and an integral part of our culture.

History

Cadillac Oil Company was established by Mr. Clair Bryant in 1921. The company’s headquarters, manufacturing facility and research laboratory are located on a three-acre campus in Detroit, Michigan.   All formulation, development and production of a complete line of metalworking and metal-forming chemistries as well as industrial lubricants and greases are performed at this location. Additional attributes include ISO 9001-2015 certification, kosher certification, a fleet of bulk delivery vehicles and a fully enclosed railroad connection. Production quantities range from 5 gallons to 7,000 gallons and storage capacity totals nearly 1 million gallons. The company remains independent and family-held.

Not Merely a Vendor

A product is only the beginning. At Cadillac Oil, we understand that customer loyalty is earned over time and not by merely providing a product. As a result, we have developed a thorough process for “tailoring and pairing” a unique product to fit your unique process, we have gradually assembled a fleet of our own bulk liquid and box delivery vehicles and we have trained a staff of experts to provide onsite technical service. These capabilities allow us to supply an optimized product, meet shorter lead times and provide higher quality service than our competition.

Tailored Product Development

Many lubricant manufacturers claim to offer custom products. What this typically means is that they’re willing to modify a standard product’s viscosity or maybe even the container’s label.  At Cadillac Oil, however, we have a vastly different definition of what it means to offer a custom product, or as we prefer to say, “tailored” product.     The process of designing your product begins with an audit of your process and environment. We compile data on the ambient conditions, equipment, processing speeds, storage and shipping conditions, facility emission restrictions and much more. We then develop a complete understanding of the product’s performance requirements and assimilate all of this data until a starting formulation is chosen. This formulation is then run through a series of simulated processing and performance tests within our laboratory and modified as many times as necessary until the desired attributes are achieved … without wasting any of your valuable line time. Only once this work is complete do we initiate a confirmation trial. At the end of this process, an entirely new product has been developed and a process has been optimized.