Articles from Lubrizol

Lubrizol earned an EcoVadis Gold Medal, placing the organization among the top 5% of companies assessed by EcoVadis across all industries worldwide in the 12 months preceding its scorecard publication. For customers who use EcoVadis to evaluate suppliers, the assessment provides independent evidence of Lubrizol’s sustainability management system to support supplier evaluations and responsible sourcing.

Agriculture is fundamental to global food security, economic development and the responsible use of natural resources. As the sector responds to population growth, climate volatility, evolving regulation and rising expectations for productivity and sustainability, innovation across the agricultural value chain has never been more important.

Lubrizol today released Future Mining Sustainability: From Production Growth to Value Creation, a whitepaper examining how the mining industry, wider ecosystem and value chain partners can improve asset performance while advancing more sustainable operations.

Lubrizol released its latest sustainability report, Global Impact, Local Action, outlining the company’s progress in reducing environmental impact, delivering sustainable solutions and advancing safe teams and strong communities.

Lubrizol announced a major advancement in its CPVC manufacturing with the introduction of LED reactor technology at the company’s Louisville, Kentucky plant. This next‑generation manufacturing approach delivers improvement in CPVC resin quality and processing efficiency, reinforcing Lubrizol’s technical resin leadership and enabling greater operational flexibility to meet global demand.

Lubrizol is proud to announce a multi-million-dollar investment to elevate its Wickliffe, Ohio, headquarters, as the company approaches its 100th anniversary in 2028 and looks to solidify its next century of innovation and impact.

Lubrizol announces the launch of Lubrizol® AH933ZF, a zinc-free additive package that enables robust performance and user benefits, enabled by innovative Lubrizol science. Zinc-free hydraulic fluids have been increasingly desirable in recent years as regulators, OEMs and other stakeholders seek to minimize potential disruptions in sensitive environmental applications. Lubrizol’s latest innovation meets these needs.

Lubrizol announces the launch of HybriCal™ lithium-free grease thickener formulation, designed to meet the performance needs of modern industrial applications.

Lubrizol’s Apinovex™ polymer was the proud recipient of a Celebration Award in the Pharma Excipients Award category at CPhI China, held in Shanghai, June 24-26. CPhI supports the global Pharma supply chain with multi-channel events and digital platforms in every region, where industry professionals can meet, learn and collaborate on APIs, CDMOs, excipients and more.

Lubrizol is proud to announce, as part of its continued dedication to polymer technology innovation, the availability of a new water-borne, high-solids polyurethane dispersion (PUD) that enables the formulation of advanced, high-performance wood coatings.

Lubrizol announces that an Apisolex™ polymer excipient-enabled drug formulation is in Phase 1 clinical trials.

Lubrizol has secured a distribution partnership with Palmer Holland, Inc. to expand the availability of our innovative ingredient solutions for the nutraceutical, dietary supplement, food and beverage market segments across the Northeastern U.S. region.

For nearly a century, Lubrizol has created extraordinary value at the intersection of life and science, delivering sustainable solutions that advance mobility, improve well-being and enhance modern life. Today the company celebrates that impact with the launch of a new brand expression, including a fresh logo, compelling new tagline, and a brand story that represents the best of the organization’s storied legacy and its optimism for its next 100 years.

Since 1928, Lubrizol has been trusted as an innovator of breakthrough solutions that drive progress across a wide variety of industries. This year, the company elevated that standard of innovation, introducing dozens of new solutions to advance mobility, improve well-being and enhance modern life. Beyond new product development, the company invested in local-for-local innovation, added new R&D centers and deepened its sustainability rigor, among many other innovation enhancements.

The Lubrizol Corporation, a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve well-being, and enhance modern life, will showcase its LIPOFER™ microcapsules that deliver iron with optimum performance at Vitafoods Europe. LIPOFER™ microcapsules are designed with a combination of cutting-edge technologies that deliver iron in an optimized way, overcoming issues such as iron’s off-taste, reactivity, interaction with other ingredients, and color change.

Eastman and Lubrizol have successfully partnered on improving adhesion strength of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) overmolded onto Eastman Tritan™ copolyester TX1501HF. The collaboration stemmed from a mutual recognition of overmolding's importance in manufacturing while delivering improved product performance and aesthetics in consumer goods when using Eastman’s sustainable material, Tritan™ Renew, and Lubrizol’s ESTANE® ECO, renewably sourced TPU.

As part of its growth strategy for innovative resin technologies for coatings, Lubrizol announces a $20 million investment to its plant in Gastonia, North Carolina, to enhance production of innovative acrylic emulsions.

For 95 years, Lubrizol has been synonymous with breakthrough scientific innovation, and 2023 was no exception. The company launched new products and extensions in 2023 aimed to help solve customer challenges as part of its purpose to leverage science to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life.

The world’s computing power is growing exponentially, and the infrastructure necessary to facilitate the next wave of server technology will need to look and operate differently. Today Lubrizol and Submer announce a partnership that will enable the next leap forward in data center productivity, reliability, and sustainability with immersion cooling system solutions. This partnership will provide tailored and bespoke solutions for today’s complex data center market and tomorrow’s evolving computing needs.

Throughout the months of April, May and June, Lubrizol employees provided impactful donations and contributed more than 1,700 virtual and in-person volunteer hours to support our neighbors and our local communities.

Today, Lubrizol announced the next phase of its staged, multi-million dollar investment in thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) capacity and capabilities to serve the rapidly growing global Paint Protection Films (PPF) market. This comes on top of investments of over $20 million over the last three years in capacity, application and testing capabilities, and market insights.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) recently awarded The Lubrizol Corporation $1 million to develop enhanced membranes for heavy-duty fuel cell applications. The award will be used by the Lubrizol Corporate Ventures team as they advance work focused on improving the durability of Proton-Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells through enhanced membrane oxidation performance.

As part of its ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion as a key enabler of business success, Lubrizol has appointed Cheree Aspelin as the company’s first Chief Diversity Officer. In this role, Aspelin will continue to advance the company’s organizational capability by further embedding diversity and inclusion (D&I) across Lubrizol’s workforce, culture, systems and processes. Aspelin also will hold HR leadership responsibilities for culture, talent management, talent development and organization design and effectiveness.

Lubrizol Life Science – Beauty (LLS Beauty) is partnering with Canadian firm Advonex International Corp. to develop renewable ingredients for the beauty and personal care market.

Lubrizol continues to take action to further its environmental stewardship. This Earth Day, that includes pledging greater reductions in the company’s environmental footprint, with new goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste across its global manufacturing sites. The company also plans to align more of its corporate giving with environmental causes, including recently announced commitments.