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DECEMBER 2018<br />
VOL. 12 ISSUE 12<br />
Controlling<br />
Pour Points<br />
New Alternatives<br />
to Lithium<br />
Solutions Geared<br />
for Industry<br />
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EDITOR’S LETTER<br />
Going Out With a Blast<br />
Welcome to the final edition of<br />
2018, and what a year that was. The<br />
United States imposed fresh sanctions<br />
on Iran, the biggest lube market in the<br />
Middle East – but exempted two of its<br />
major customers, India and Turkey. In<br />
Turkey, the economy suffered a spec-<br />
tacular currency collapse that has left<br />
lube companies wondering how they’ll<br />
pay off foreign-currency denominated<br />
debts. And there were the mid-ter<a title="2018_12 - December 2018 - EMEA page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2c647b27?page=1"> DECEMBER 2018 VOL. 12 ISSUE 12 Con</a>
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<a title="2018_12 - December 2018 - EMEA page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2c647b27?page=3"> EDITOR’S LETTER Going Out With a Blast </a>
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<a title="2018_12 - December 2018 - EMEA page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2c647b27?page=24"> Figure 3: TGA of the Li-12-OH-stearate thickened </a>
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