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  Synton®
Crompton PAO materials are opening doors to new applications for synthetic lubricants.
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Crompton specialty dyes and dyestuff materials come to the rescue of English electronic imaging company.
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  WD-40
For two decades, our corrosion inhibitor has been a part of America's favorite spray lubricant.
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Our Petroleum Additives unit offers one of the most comprehensive product lines of components to lubricant package additive formulators and manufacturers of products for the transportation, industrial, grease, and fuels markets. Our performance components allow our customers to formulate products that can meet demanding new industry specifications driven by higher performance and advanced environmental requirements.

Our sulfur-nitrogen chemistry combined with advanced detergent technology provides for the development of new products to meet performance challenges in both lubricants and fuels. Our customers are being required to meet new and more stringent lubricant specifications that will increase sales of new products such as friction modifiers, antioxidants, anti-wear compounds, and deposit-control additives, all of which are critical to cleaner, more efficient lubricant systems.

Our high-performance synthetic fluids are finding new markets in the lubricants industry. For automotive and industrial lubricants makers, Synton® PAO synthetic fluids answer the challenge of extended drain intervals and enhanced high-temperature performance in machinery and gearboxes.

Responding to the environmental demands of the metalworking industry, we are developing new anti-wear components to replace chlorine-based additives.

Our calcium sulfonate premium grease continues to solve tough customer problems where severe operating conditions exist. New grease formulations have exceeded customer expectations in steel and paper mills, mines, and on board ocean-going ships.

Industrial Colors serves a wide range of industrial markets including paper, leather, films, specialty printing inks, and wood stains with solvent-soluble and water-soluble dyes in liquid and powder forms.

Our Refined Products unit is the world leader in the production and marketing of white oils, petrolatums, cable fillers, refrigeration oil, and waxes to a broad range of end-use markets. Our customers depend on the high quality of our products in markets ranging from personal care and cosmetics to industrial applications such as telecommunications cable-filling compounds and plastics additives.

Our Glycerin and Fatty Acids business is derived from renewable sourced materials, and provides cost-effective ingredients for such diverse markets as personal care, paper and packaging, paints and coatings, and tires.



Brought online sixth production expansion for Synton PAO synthetic lubricant. Initiated seventh expansion at Elmira, Ontario, Canada facility to be completed in 2001.

Introduced Hybase C-231 calcium sulfonate, a multi-functional petroleum additive with outstanding anti-wear properties. It is an extreme pressure agent and detergent for transport applications.

Rationalized production of calcium sulfonate lubricant additives at Gretna, Louisiana facility in order to focus assets on higher value-added, higher margin businesses.

Petroleum and lubricant additives. USP white mineral oils, petrolatums, microcrystalline waxes, cable-filling compounds. Industrial dyes. Fatty acids and glycerines.

Petroleum and lubricant additive components for automotive, marine and metalworking. Paper, coatings, inks, and film. Personal care, household, and institutional.