According to experts and officials of specialized institutions in products and solutions for maintenance and auto parts, the “green products” of cars’ maintenance manufactured from environmentally materials are witnessing a growth in sales between 10 and 25 % since the beginning of this year as a result of increased awareness for its importance where these products’ cost and prices are very close to the traditional products and the experts expect some sales growth in the coming days. They pointed out that spare parts and the green maintenance solutions provide consumption of natural resources such as fuel and water by varying proportions where the experts mentioned that these products include oils of different cars, tires, spare parts, cleaning and washing equipments.
Tariq Rasheed, director of sales and marketing in the auto services management at Emirates National Oil Company “Enoc” said “the company spotted through its ‘Autopro” ports for cars’ maintenance a growth in the ‘green oils’ sales by 25 % since the beginning of this year”. He added: “the growing demand for these types of oils is due to the low costs provided by the companies during the recent period with rates higher than the prices of traditional oils’ costs by 10 %”.
Also, he added that the manufacturers of maintenance solutions and the green spare parts managed during the last year to reduce the cost of production and the selling prices of those products as reflected currently on the growth of sales compared to the previous period. He mentioned that “Autopro” offered green cars’ tires supplied and produced by a Finnish company at prices similar to the traditional tires and with prices less than a large number of the traditional tires where the experts expect to encourage consumers to order these products.
According to Tariq Rasheed, the green tires offered locally are manufactured from eco-friendly materials that replace the petroleum oils products used to give the flexibility for the tires with natural oils similar to the food oils which makes these tires do not cause evaporation of any harmful oils to the environment when compared to the traditional tires beside the use of natural materials in the manufacturing process makes them recyclable through some specialized facilities in this area. Also, he pointed out that the cars’ washes used in “ENOC” provide up to 85 percent of the total water used in the traditional cars’ washes.
