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MAY 2020 VOL. 26 ISSUE 5
New Test for
Aged Oil
Keeping
Our Cool
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In PCMO, you need a partner at the heart of chang
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MAY 2020 VOL. 26 ISSUE 5 TABLE OF CONT
AUTOMOTIVE SUVs and Their Lubricants I
DRIVEN Whether you
Automotive lubrication seems to be at two opposin
Continued from page 8 of the warning light issue,
engine lubricant requirements for the latest engi
BEST PRACTICES Communicating in a Crisis I
QUALITY BOOSTS. The LANXESS Lubricant Addi
Continued from page 12 not scary but rather gives
directives are key to pro- tecting the elderly an
NEED TO KNOW Buyback Alarms are Ringing Louder
HO Your additive
INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT HIGH- PERFORMANCE LUBRICANT
Slow Start Drags Down Base Oil Totals I
Earlier in 2019, sources had speculat- ed that
a 13 percent decline to just under 2.1 million ba
U.S. Monthly Production of Base Oils (millions of
AMBITIO Petrolad® 339 N / FLEXIBILIT
Top U.S. Base Oil Trading Partners, 2019 Exports
increased its sales to the U.S. by 19 per- cent t
The Test that Keeps on Giving BY ALAN FLAMBERG,
LUBES’N’GREASES 27
about protection dwindling against low-speed pre-
Continued from page 28 properties of oil perfor-
Alan Flamberg holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Sta
32 MAY 2020
BY STEVE HAFFNER A New
Test Oil Elemental Profiles Oil
Formulation Comprehensive, state-of-the-art
Continued from page 34 development, but we're mak
Do you have a 2020 EV strategy? NEW MARKET REPO
38 MAY 2020
Keeping Our Cool Greener Refrigerants Need
doubly potent. One small 30- pound tank of R-404A
NEW MARKET REPORT FOR 2020 The lubric
Continued from page 40 candidates have emerged. A
2001 GSB LT1 LT2
PRODUCT NEWS PRODUCT NEWS Keeping farmers on th
maintenance, lubrication planning, performance tr
PLACES’N’FACES PLACES’N’FACES Coronavirus Halts
CUSTOM RESEARCH Gain deeper insight
PLACES’N’FACES Continued from page 46 afte
mulated to accommodate those technologies. PdVSA
cutting fluids, drawing compounds, extrusion oils
delisted in January after five years of inactivit
BASE OIL REPORT We Are All in This Together
BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER PURAGLOBE—WHERE INNOVAT
YOUR BUSINESS America Is Resilient
One Source. HollyFrontier produces the widest ran
PRECISELY WHAT YOU NEED.PRECISELY WHENYOUNEEDIT.