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2015 NLGI Recognition Awards
Nine Receive Recognition
“Acknowledges meritorious service on the NLGI Board for three or more years, on Technical Committee projects, or to the industry.”
MR. TERRY SMITH LUBRICATION ENGINEERS, INC.
Terry graduated from the College of Liberal Arts at University of Kansas with majors in chemistry and comparative biochemistry & physiology. His career in the lubricant industry began in April, 1969 as a chemist for Southwest Grease & Oil / Southwest Petrochem in Wichita, Kansas. After spending 12 years with Southwest, his career with Lubrication Engineers, Inc. began in 1981 when LE’s manufacturing plant came online in Wichita. He has worked for LE in various laboratory-related capacities for 34-plus years.
Terry is a 33-year member of the American Chemical Society, Society of Automotive Engineers, and the STLE. He holds CLGS®, CLS and OMA certifications. Terry has served on the NLGI Board of Directors since 2008 and has worked with the Technical Committee focusing on the NLGI CLGS® program.
Terry resides in Wichita with his wife of 45 years, Vicki. They have two daughters, Jennifer and Amy. NLGI Achievement Award
“The Institute’s highest award, it honors the achievement of those who have made exceptional contributions to the growth and development of the Institute.”
MR. DAVID TURNER
David recently became a Product Specialist with CITGO Petroleum Corp. He is a graduate of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, holding a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering. He has more than 33 years of experience in the lubricants industry, in formulation, manufacturing, selection, application, and technical service of greases and industrial lubricants. He is a member of STLE and ASTM, and has authored several papers for NLGI. He is the chairman of ASTM D02.G on Lubricating Grease and is co-chair of the NLGI Technical Committee. He is the recipient of the NLGI Clarence E. Earl Memorial Award, the ASTM Award of Excellence, the NLGI Meritorious Service Award, the NLGI Fellows Award, the NLGI Chevron Lubricants Award, and the NLGI Shell Lubricants Award for Instructor Excellence. He is an NLGI Certified Lubricating Grease Specialist (CLGS), an STLE Oil Monitoring Analyst (OMA I), and an STLE Certified Lubrication Specialist (CLS).
NLGI Fellow Award
“Acknowledges valuable work within the Institute, in the technical development of greases, grease tests, grease usage, or the promotion of grease usage.”
MR. CHUCK COE GREASE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LLC
Chuck holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He also holds the NLGI CLGS and STLE CLS professional certifications. He worked for Mobil and ExxonMobil for 32 years, including 6 years as ExxonMobil’s Grease Technology Manager and many years as an industrial oil and grease formulator and technical advisor. He retired from ExxonMobil and launched Grease Technology Solutions LLC, a grease training and consulting business in 2009. He is the immediate past president of NLGI and is the Grease Education Course Chair of STLE. He has authored several technical papers and articles on grease, and received Best Marketing Paper and Best Paper awards from both NLGI (2008) and ELGI (2009), and the John A. Bellanti Memorial Meritorious Service Award (2012) from NLGI. NLGI Author Award – Development
(Sponsored by Royal Manufacturing Co. LP) “Commends the author of a paper of special significance, as presented at the Annual Meeting of the Institute”
MR. PAUL BERTIN ELEVANCE RENEWABLE SCIENCES For his paper entitled “Novel Long-Chain Dibasic Complexing Agents for Lithium Thickened Grease”
Bertin currently holds the title of Scientist–Product Development at Elevance Renewable Sciences headquartered near Chicago, IL (2012-present). He is a native of Cleveland, OH and earned his B.A. and B.S. degrees in chemistry and business at Miami University (2000). Paul received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Northwestern University (2005) for the development of polymer-based nanostructures from ring-opening metathesis polymerization. Prior to Elevance, Paul worked as a Principal Scientist at Ohmx Corporation (2005-2011). He is the author or co-author of more than 40 research publications, patents, and patent applications. His research interests broadly include sustainable chemistry, electron transfer processes in hybrid organic-inorganic systems, and advanced functional materials. At Elevance, Paul designs, synthesizes, and evaluates natural oil metathesis biorefinery products and downstream derivatives in lubricant, engineered polymer, and coatings applications that address critical customer objectives and/or urgent market trends.
Clarence E. Earle Memorial Award
(Sponsored by Rockwood Lithium) “For an outstanding contribution to the technical literature relating to lubricating greases during the year”
MR. BILL TUSZYNSKI IVANHOE INDUSTRIES, INC. “For his tireless work on developing the 6th Edition of the NLGI Lubricating Grease Guide.”
Bill is currently Managing Partner and co-owner of Ivanhoe Industries, a Tullytown, PA distributor of industrial and specialty chemicals. In that role, he manages the company’s lubricant additive business. Prior to joining Ivanhoe, he held various technical, business development and management positions with Inolex Chemical Company, Elf Atochem and Pennwalt (both now Arkema). He holds a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from Cornell University and a B.S. in Biochemistry from Manhattan College. NLGI Author Award - Application
(Sponsored by Chevron Global Lubricants Company) “For the best paper presented at our Annual Meeting that focuses on selection, application, or use of lubricating grease.”
MR. GASTON AGUILAR AFTON CHEMICAL CORPORATION
For his paper entitled “The Effect of Thickener on EP Additive Response”
Gaston received a Doctorate degree in organic chemistry from Texas A&M University in 1996. After post-doctoral work at the University of Florida, he joined Conoco Inc. in 1997 as a research chemist working in the Lubricant R&D Department. He moved to R. T. Vanderbilt in August, 2000 where he worked for 13 years holding multiple positions including Product Manager for Lubricant Additives and Research Director. In 2013, he joined Afton Chemical as a Sr. R&D Scientist focusing his work on grease technology and formulation. NLGI Award for Education Excellence
(Sponsored by Shell Lubricants) “For outstanding instruction as exemplified by subject knowledge and presentation skills in NLGI education courses”
MR. DICK BURKHALTER COVENANT ENGINEERING SERVICES LLC
Burkhalter received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, Rolla, Missouri, in 1967, now known as the Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T). He has more than twenty years plant operations experience, and has served as project manager for a leading consulting firm in the design of lubricating oil and grease manufacturing plants for twelve years. In 1995, he founded Covenant Engineering Services to serve the lubricants and chemical industries where he serves as President. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and has been an active member of NLGI since 1986. He has served on the NLGI Board of Directors for ten years, authored and presented six technical papers at the annual meetings, co-chaired two panel discussions, and has been published in The Spokesman, STLE, and Machinery Lubrication. Mr. Burkhalter has also retired from the U.S. Army at the rank of Colonel with 27½ years of service, both active and reserve.
NLGI Honorary Membership Award
“Entitles lifetime honorary membership to those who, over a period of years, have served the Institute in some outstanding capacity and are not now with a member company.”
MR. ED ORAVEC SHELL CANADA LTD. – RETIRED
Ed received a BaSC in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, 1981, and an MBA from McMaster University, 1989. He is retiring after 34 years service with Shell Canada Ltd., Ed began his career in 1981 as a Research Engineer at Shell’s Oakville Research Center. He moved to Calgary in 1989 and held various business development and planning roles in Shell’s head office until 1994. He then joined Thermoshell Home Comfort, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell Canada Ltd., as Operations Manager overseeing the provision of home heating oil and equipment services to residential and commercial customers. He progressed to V.P. of Operations and Marketing for this business until 2001. Oravec then moved to London, England, for an expatriate assignment with Shell International as a Business Development Manager to work on Home Comfort business startups in Greece, Turkey, and Germany. Led project to select and implement IT systems to support this business.
He returned to Shell Canada in 2004 and joined the Product Quality group as a Grease Product Manager, responsible for overall grease product quality and plant manufacturing implementation of new grease products. He then progressed to Senior Product Implementation Manager for Grease lubricants in the Americas and led major plant quality improvement programs, introduced new grease products for manufacture, and participated in development of new grease formulas and product specifications for the rail and mining sectors.
Mr. Oravec served on the NLGI Board of Directors from 2008 to 2015.
NLGI President’s Plaque
“In recognition and appreciation for having served the NLGI in the office of president for the previous year”
MR. BRUCE URBAN FMC – LITHIUM DIVISION
