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JUNE 2015 VOL. 21 ISSUE 6
Dexron VI
gets up to speed
Iran: Deal or
no deal?
ROOTED IN RELIABILITY.
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Each dependable, versatile and consistent to spec.
Reliable supply from a company you trust.
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PUBLISHER'S LETTER
8,006 and counting!
A
year and a half ago, we launched
Lube Report Asia, a weekly e-mail
newsletter dedicated to breaking
news, base oil pricing information and
objective, in-depth coverage of issues
related to Asia-Pacific.
While North America and Western Europe
are viewed as stable and mature, Asia-
Pacific consumes some 42 percent of the
worl
JUNE 2015 VOL. 21 ISSUE 6 Dexr
ROOTED IN RELIABILITY. A family of specialty ba
PUBLISHER'S LETTER 8,006 and counting! A
JUNE 2015 VOL. 21 ISSUE 6 TABLE OF CON
For a relationship built on a high level of c
AUTOMOTIVE Diminishing Returns
AUTOMOTIVE Continued from page 6
ExxonMobil Chemical's advanced synthetic base sto
AUTOMOTIVE Continued from page 8
NEED TO KNOW Overloaded Labels for HDEO
Performance you can rely on. News. Views. Tre
Continued from page 12 engine manufacturers want
BEST PRACTICES Make Quality Decisions
BEST PRACTICES Continued fr
instincts or “gut feeling.” In my read- ing on th
Grease Pays Dividends at Tata Steel
We create chemistry that makes lubricant formulat
Above: One of the traveling grates that haul gre
iron ore fines into “uniformly sized iron- ore p
Triboscience & Engineering, Inc. Excellence in
Don't Go It Alone Get help with your sti
Joe is all about results. He formulates the short
Figure 1. Before and After at Tata Steel Propert
the lubrication point and is heated, though, the
BY JOHN SARGEANT & STUART SPEDING With
© solvod - Fotolia LUBES'N'GREASES 31
When in the late 1990s Exxon moved to “merge”
THE OIL THAT CUTS CO2 SUSTAINABILITY
Continued from page 32 BP's cash flows. It's unl
direction for one key brand could simultaneously
Refiners Eye Gold Rush to Iran BY MARK TOWNSEND
Iran's Base Oil Refineries (All Group I)
A STEP UP IN BASE OILS Take your business to th
Continued from page 38 standards for lubricants.
the UAE imports around 35 percent of its base oil
As General Motors Corp.'s vehicle sales climb to
year before to surpass 3.5 million units. The U.S
myriad ATFs in the market that claim to meet univ
specification. For vehicles driven in “severe” us
Fatty Acids Fatty Alcohols Fractionated Me
CHEVRON GROUP II PREMIUM BASE OILS WE'RE BRINGI
Continued from page 46 prompted GM to develop an
Adhesive, water-resistant grease for exposed pins
PRODUCT NEWS PRODUCT NEWS Food-grade lubes fro
PRODUCT NEWS Continued fro
Clean Results. Refiners worldwide use our ISOD
Continued from page 52 The hand-held analyzer is
Ambition Flexibility Innovation We build the
PLACES'N'FACES PLACES'N'FACES Evonik Bulks Up in
THE CATALYST MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE MSDW™
PLACES'N'FACES Continued fr
The Best Industrial Lubricants Start With HollyFr
Continued from page 60 of Sea-Land Chemical. “Thi
Baton Rouge, La., and Beaumont, Texas, and its ma
California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon,
st in class Tough & Durable · Less scrap and
I N D E X O F A D V E R T I S E R S ABB
It's liberating to have choices.
BASE OIL REPORT Summer Slowly Unfolds
Expanding supply. Energizing opportunity. We're
YOUR BUSINESS Holacracy or Idiocy?
INTRODUCING
“Battenfeld strives to deliver on our `Quality Wi