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cours<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=1"> JANUARY 2018 VOL. 24 ISSUE 1 </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=2"> Solvency and Viscosity Delivered From the truste</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=3"> PUBLISHER'S LETTER Because You Asked for More </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=4"> JANUARY 2018 VOL. 24 ISSUE 1 TABLE OF </a>
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<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=6"> AUTOMOTIVE Keep a Beginner's Mind I </a>
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<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=8"> 8 JANUARY 2018 AUTOMOTIVE Continue</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=9"> SUSTAINABLE GROUP III BASE OILS A NEW WAVE OF</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=10"> AUTOMOTIVE Continued f</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=11"> the starter itself. In short order, we burned ou</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=12"> BEST PRACTICES Don't Waste That Crisis Gene</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=13"> Every day is a new challenge, a new adventure, a </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=14"> Continued from page 12 or business, operational </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=15"> option evaluation will take resources and time. T</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=16"> NEED TO KNOW Looking Back and </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=17"> IPAC 2600 Series - Stopping Corrosion in its Trac</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=18"> Continued from page 16 distributor's presence in </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=19"> </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=20"> Changing Trade Winds for Base Oil BY JOE BEETON </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=21"> almost equal strides. Regional imbalances swin</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=22"> Global Lubricant Base Stock Supply and Demand Bal</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=23"> </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=24"> Continued from page 22 Phadke said it's inev</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=25"> imports into both Asia-Pacific and Europe. But Ph</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=26"> W hat do lubrica</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=27"> Photo: stevanovicigor - iStock LUBES</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=28"> sion that has never been considered which may dra</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=29"> group II base oils this is what progress looks l</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=30"> Continued from page 28 inventing new laboratory </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=31"> Wear scar for 3 percent molybdenum phosphorodithi</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=32"> A heavy-duty engine test cell at the Southwest Re</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=33"> BY STEVE SWEDBERG Heavy-duty Health As HDEO t</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=34"> and FA-4, said Shawn Whitacre, chair- man of ASTM</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=35"> </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=36"> Continued from page 34 </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=37"> maintain the hardware for the existing tests, as </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=38"> 38 JANUARY 2018</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=39"> E </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=40"> ultra-low-viscosity engine oils is clear, challen</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=41"> AMBITION / FLEXIBILITY / </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=42"> Continued from page 40 A similar result was r</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=43"> PUZZLED BY BASE STOCKS? </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=44"> PRODUCT NEWS PRODUCT NEWS Keeps engines purrin</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=45"> Turning Your Ideas Into Reality With a p</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=46"> PRODUCT NEWS Continued from page 44 </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=47"> Control Foam Carnpneonutnecr eCdo.that several o</a>
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<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=50"> PLACES'N'FACES </a>
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<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=53"> Continued from page 51 or testing, will be given </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=54"> agreement to pro- vide lubricants for two-wheeler</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=55"> Bob Miller Kyle Fischer made several leadershi</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=56"> BASE OIL REPORT Rearranging the Pieces of the </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=57"> Bringing the future into focus In a world of evol</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=58"> YOUR BUSINESS Whose Work Are You Doing? </a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 59" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=59"> TOGETHER. HollyFrontier and Petro-Canada Special</a>
<a title="2018_01 - January 2018 - LNG page 60" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/01412226?page=60"> WHEN YOU HAVE A CLEAR SOLUTION, ANYTHING IS POSSI</a>