2016 NLGI Awards

2016

NLGI AWARDS

John A. Bellanti, Sr. Memorial Meritorious Service Award

This award acknowledges meritorious service on the NLGI Board, or on Technical Committee projects or to the industry.

Jim Hunt, Tiarco Chemical Jim Hunt obtained his Associates in Computer Engineered Science in 1985. He has been the Global Sales and Marketing Director for Tiarco Chemical for almost 15 years. It was Jim’s initial vision and passion that drove the decision for Tiarco Chemical to be directly involved in the global grease and lubricant market with their specially additives many years ago. Jim began his career in the paint and coatings market in the early 80's. After only a few years in QC and operations, Jim was promoted to General Manager of Chemex Paints in 1986 and ran all operations for 2 years until he transitioned into to chemical distribution sales. Jim began his sales career at Lomas International more than 25 years ago. Jim was awarded Salesman of the Year Honors as well as outstanding business development awards from suppliers including Wacker Silicones. Jim also worked for Cytec's Polymer Additives business for over 4 years once again achieving excellent sales and outstanding performance in development of new business in the plastics market. Jim was elected in June 2016 as Treasurer of the NLGI Board of Directors. He is also a long-standing member of STLE and ILMA.

NLGI Fellow Award

The award acknowledges valuable work within the Institute, in the technical development of greases, grease tests, or the promotion of grease usage.

Jaime Spagnoli, ExxonMobil Research &

Engineering

Jaime received his B.S. in Engineering Technology from Trenton State College, New Jersey. He has spent Thirty-nine years working at ExxonMobil in technical services and lubricant research and development with over 25 years of experience in grease R&D. He is currently working as a Senior Researcher in the Industrial Lubricants & Grease Section at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. He is a member and active participant in STLE, NLGI and ELGI activities and past Chairman of ASTM Sub Committee G. He is the recipient of the NLGI Chevron Lubricants Author Award and the NLGI Shell Lubricants Award for Instructor Excellence. He is also the recipient of the ELGI Best Paper award in 2012. He is an NLGI Certified Lubricating Grease Specialist (CLGS).

NLGI Author Award – Development Sponsored by Royal Mfg. Co. LP This award is for the best paper presented at our 2015 Annual Meeting that focuses on formulation, development and manufacture of finished greases.

John Lorimor, Axel Americas (with co-authors Mihir

Patel, Rob Heverly and Brian Stunkel)

“Development of next generation electrical motor greases offering improved frictional characteristics”

John is currently Technical Director for AXEL Americas LLC. John’s primary responsibility is the strategic management of AXEL technical resources, specifically focused on driving new product innovation in commercially targeted areas, optimization of product formulation and manufacturing processes, and ensuring successful transfer of technology within the AXEL group of grease manufacturing plants. Over a 22-year career, John has held a variety of technical and commercial leadership roles at some of the most well-known companies in the grease and additives industry. John received his bachelor degree in Chemical Science from Kansas State University in 1994, and MBA from the University of Phoenix in 2001. He has authored and presented numerous papers at NLGI on grease product development, and was also previously recognized with the NLGI Author Award at its 2010 annual meeting. John is an STLE Certified Lubrication Specialist (C.L.S.®), and was among the first recognized by NLGI as Certified Lubricating Grease Specialist (CLGS®).

NLGI Author Award – Application Sponsored by Chevron Global Lubricants This award is for the best paper presented at our Annual Meeting that focuses on testing, selection, application or use of greases.

Jason Galary, Nye Lubricants

“Investigation into the Dynamic Particle

Generation of Lubricating Greases”

Jason is currently the Engineering Development and Application Manager at Nye Lubricants located in Fairhaven, Ma where he has over 18 years working in the lubrication industry. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. Currently he is working on his Doctoral Degree in Engineering and Applied Science. Jason is the founder of the ADVT (Application Development and Validation Testing) Laboratory where the focus is on developing new testing equipment and methods to simulate real world lubricant applications and environments. He has authored or co-authored over 10 Technical Research publications and presentations. His research interests currently include mechanical fretting, dynamic particle generation of lubricants, vacuum tribology, and life modeling of lubricating greases.

Clarence E. Earle Memorial Award Sponsored by Rockwood Lithium This award is for an outstanding contribution to the technical literature relating to lubricating greases during the year.

J. Andrew Waynick, NCH

“Calcium Sulfonate Complex Greases Using Calcium

Hydroxyapatite as a Hydroxide-Containing Basic Reactant”

Andy Waynick received his B.A. in Chemistry in 1974 from Central Methodist College, and his M.S. in Physical Chemistry in 1977 from Purdue University. For the 39 years since that time, Andy has been a professional research chemist. For more than 36 of those years he has been involved in fluid lubricants, greases, fuels, and fuel additives. Andy’s work includes 17 years at Amoco Oil Company and more than 7 years as a senior research scientist at Southwest Research Institute. His primary areas of responsibility have been and continue to be technology and product development and technical problem solving. Andy has developed commercially successful lubricating greases for automotive CV joints, sealed-for-life automotive wheel bearings, and rail track/wheel flange grease. One of the more interesting projects that Andy completed was the development of an extremely high performance polyurea U-joint grease that allowed a major automotive manufacturer to use the U-joint from a compact car in their heavy-duty 4x4 pickup truck. Andy developed the first documented commercially successful polyurea thickened grease for steel mill continuous caster bearings. Under contract with the U.S. military, Andy developed a lithium-based grease for the engine thrust bearings used in strategic cruise missiles that resulted in a new MIL spec written specifically for it. Sponsored by and in cooperation with South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Andy developed the first lubricating greases thickened in part or entirely by carbon nanotubes. At the invitation of the editor of ACS peer-reviewed journal “Energy and Fuels”, Andy submitted and had published the only review article ever written on the development and use of metal deactivating additives in the petroleum industry. Andy has 31 U.S. patents and at least as many published research papers.

Award for Education Excellence Sponsored by SOPUS Products This award is for outstanding instruction as exemplified by subject knowledge and presentation skills in NLGI Educational Courses.

Carl Wainwright, ExxonMobil Fuels, Lubricants &

Specialties Marketing Company

Carl graduated from the Rutgers University College of Pharmacy in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1990, interning at the United States Veteran’s Administration and Rhone Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals. He joined Mobil Oil’s Environmental and Health Sciences Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey in June 1990, responsible for the formulation and analytical testing of materials for toxicology and environmental assessments. In 1997, Carl transferred to the Product Safety Department at Mobil, supporting lubes product development at the Mobil Technology Center in Paulsboro, New Jersey, working with lubes formulators to mitigate health, safety and regulatory concerns prior to commercialization.

After the merger with Exxon, Carl assumed the role as Global Formulation Disclosure Advisor for the ExxonMobil Lubes business. He coordinated the health, safety and regulatory support relating to customer and government agency enquiries.

In 2011, he was promoted to the Americas Lubes Product Stewardship Advisor, ensuring regulatory compliance, including all GHS implementations in the Americas zone.

He has been an instructor at NLGI for the past 10 years, providing the Environmental and Safety module in the Basic Grease Course and recently, the H1 Incidental Food Contact module for the Advanced Grease Course.

NLGI Founders Award (New in 2016) In recognition of the three NLGI founding Companies, the Founders Award is presented to a company that has had a positive impact on the NLGI in the tradition established by its founding fathers.

Battenfeld Grease & Oil Corporation of New York

Barbara Bellanti accepted this award on behalf of

Battenfeld Grease & Oil Corporation of New York, for the leading role Battenfeld has taken in the development and promotion of NLGI for many decades. NLGI recognizes

Battenfeld Grease & Oil Corporation of New York for their continuous support and dedication to the institute.

NLGI Honorary Membership

This 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.

Terry Smith, Lubrication Engineers (Retired)

Tom Pane, King Industries (Retired)

Bill Ward, Lubrizol (Retired)