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Phillips 66 Lubricants Names Best Line Oil Co., Inc. TOP TIER Marketer Tampa, Florida-Based Distributor Receives Distinguished Status for Excellence in Best Practices
TAMPA (Jan. 19, 2016) - Phillips 66 Lubricants, one of the largest finished lubricants suppliers in North America, today announced that Best Line Oil Company, Inc. has achieved TOP TIER Marketer status for exceeding quality, safety and environmental operations standards. The elite recognition is awarded to a select number of Phillips 66 Lubricants distributors that have exceeded the company’s rigorous Marketer Operations Standards practices. These standards were created to help protect the product quality of the Phillips 66 Lubricants brands and improve the efficiency of safety and environmental programs, according to Bryan Faria, Manager, Finished Lubricants. Best Line Oil Co., Inc. is a third generation family owned wholesale lubricants distributor servicing the central Florida region since 1935. “We are very proud of Best Line Oil Co., Inc. and the exceptional work they have done,” said Faria. “They have proven to be extremely successful in achieving the high operation and quality standards of Phillips 66 Lubricants and will be joining an elite group of Marketers from across North America that share this distinguished recognition.”
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Partner Collaborations Advance Second-Generation Elevance Biorefinery Technology
Woodridge, Illinois, USA (Jan. 19, 2016) – In collaboration with several partners, including the special contribution of Versalis under a strategic partnership started in early 2014, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. — a high-growth company that creates novel specialty chemicals from natural oils — has successfully completed scale-up of a secondgeneration biorefinery technology of the company’s olefin metathesis technology, utilizing ethylene and natural oil feedstocks. To read the complete Press Release visit: https://www.nlgi.org/news-and-events/industry-news/
January 6, 2016: World Demand for Lubricants to Exceed 45 Million Metric Tons in 2019
World demand for lubricants is projected to rise 2.0 percent annually to 45.4 million metric tons in 2019. The fastest gains are expected in the Asia/Pacific region, where an expanding number of motor vehicles in use and continued industrialization in large countries such as China and India will support rising demand. Developing regions such as Central and South America and the Africa/Mideast region will also exhibit healthy gains in response to economic growth, rising manufacturing output, and increasing motor vehicle production and ownership rates. These and other trends are presented in World Lubricants, a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based industry research firm. To read the complete Press Release visit: https://www.nlgi.org/news-and-events/industry-news/
BECHEM Lubrication Technology, LLC Continues To Expand Their Sales & Application Engineering Team
BECHEM announces that Jillian Jurvelin has joined the BECHEM Sales & Application Engineering team. After graduating from University of Detroit with a Bachelors of Arts and Masters Degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology, Jillian comes to BECHEM with consulting and sales experience in both Automotive and General Industry market areas. Jill will be joining the Specialty Lubricants Team for BECHEM that continues to further expand in North America. “We look forward to having Jill join our team of professional sales & application engineers. She brings another dimension to our group that will blend well with the rest of team as we continue to expand our market penetration in the Specialty Lubricants market sector”, says John Steigerwald, President of BECHEM Lubrication Technology, LLC. BECHEM Lubrication Technology, LLC. • 5601 Chagrin Road, Chagrin Falls, OH Phone: (440) 263-4773 • Toll Free: (844) 883-4420 • Internet: www.bechem.com
York, PA January 4, 2016 – At the recent American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) meeting held in
Austin, Texas, the society presented an Award of Appreciation to Lisa Williams of MRG Labs. This reflected on her contributions as a member of the ASTM D02 Grease Subcommittee and In-Service Lubricant Testing and Condition Monitoring Subcommittee, where she serves as the vice-Chairman. The citation for her award reads, “Lisa Williams worked tirelessly to the benefit of industry with the introduction of a new technology to perform comprehensive testing of inservice grease samples. The culmination of her efforts recently led to the new standard, D7918, Standard Test Method for Measurement of Flow Properties and Evaluation of Wear, Contaminants and Oxidative Properties of Lubricating Grease by Die Extrusion Method and Preparation.”
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Molykote® brand lubrication scientist Manfred Jungk of Dow Corning elected to board of German tribology group
Wiesbaden, Germany: At the recent conference of GfT – Gesellschaft für Tribologie e.V. (the German Tribological Society), a globally recognized Dow Corning lubrication expert was elected to the group’s Board of Directors. To read the complete Press Release visit: https://www.nlgi.org/news-and-events/industry-news/
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TEKNOR APEX APPOINTS VANDERBILT CHEMICALS AS EXCLUSIVE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTOR OF ITS TRUVISTM ESTER PRODUCT LINE
PAWTUCKET, RI, U.S.A., December 21, 2015: Teknor Apex Company has appointed Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC as the exclusive global distributor of its TruVis™ line of ester products. To read the complete Press Release visit: https://
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More than 5,000 Attendees to the 2015 Chem Show Underscore Event’s Long-Standing and ForwardLooking Value
WESTPORT, Conn., December 17, 2015 – The 2015 Chem Show, held November 17 to 19 at the Javits Center in New York, welcomed 5,170 registered attendees at the chemical process industries’ (CPI) leading event for processing technology. To read the complete Press Release visit: https://www.nlgi.org/news-and-events/industry-news/
Phillips 66 Lubricants Expands Commercial Line with Two New Heavy-Duty Synthetic Transmission Lubricants
Both Triton® Synthetic MTF and Kendall SHP® Synthetic MTF Meet Eaton PS-386 Specification for Service Fill
HOUSTON (December 10, 2015)—Phillips 66 Lubricants, one of the largest finished lubricants suppliers in North America, today announced the addition of two new heavy-duty synthetic transmission lubricants to its Commercial product line—Triton® Synthetic MTF and Kendall SHP® Synthetic MTF. The new manual transmission fluids are fullsynthetic, fuel-efficient transmission lubricants designed for use in heavy-duty commercial manual transmissions operating in extreme temperatures and extended service intervals. Both products are approved for service fill under the new Eaton PS-386 specification (supersedes Eaton PS-164 Rev 7). To read the complete Press Release visit: https://
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DuPont Announces 2020 Sustainability Goals
Centerpiece Innovation Goal to Embed Sustainability into DuPont Innovation Process
WILMINGTON, Del., Nov. 18, 2015 – DuPont today announced its 2020 Sustainability Goals as the next step in its more than 25-year commitment to sustainability. The centerpiece of the new DuPont 2020 Sustainability Goals is a companywide commitment to embed sustainability into its innovation process and R&D pipeline. To read the
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Elevance to Present Trends in High-Performance Synthetic Industrial Lubricants at 2015 ICIS and ELGI Industrial Lubricants Conference
At the 2015 ICIS and ELGI Industrial Lubricants Conference, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. will present market, performance and technology trends in high-performance synthetic industrial lubricants.
As part of the presentation, Elevance will discuss new tools and derivatives for the lubricants market as well as comparing properties and performance of alphaolefin/alphaolefin ester synthetic base stock technology. To read the
