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MARCH 2014 VOL. 20 ISSUE 3<br />
Long live<br />
the two-<br />
wheeler!<br />
Heavy-<br />
duty<br />
upgrade<br />
takes<br />
shape<br />
WE MADE A<br />
COMMITMENT<br />
To service the speciality oils industry to the best of our ability. Decades later,<br />
despite periods of “uncertainty” in the market, we're still here. Adding capacity.<br />
Securing supply. Developing new ways to produce innovative products.<br />
Times have changed since we first began. The promises we've made to our<br />
customers have not.<br />
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PUBLISHER'S LETTER<br />
Sara's Good Queries<br />
S<br />
ara Lefcourt, recently retired from<br />
Infineum and now president of<br />
Lefcourt Consulting in Scotch Plains,<br />
N.J., has set herself the challenge of<br />
answering some very good questions in a<br />
special series for Lubes'n'Greases. S<a title="2014_03 - March 2014 - LNG page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e9f4b3fd?page=1"> MARCH 2014 VOL. 20 ISSUE 3 Long</a>
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<a title="2014_03 - March 2014 - LNG page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e9f4b3fd?page=3"> PUBLISHER'S LETTER Sara's Good Queries S </a>
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<a title="2014_03 - March 2014 - LNG page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e9f4b3fd?page=8"> AUTOMOTIVE Continued from page 6 </a>
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