The agency seems adamant that most chlorinated paraffins need to go away. A coalition of industry groups is gearing up to challenge that threat.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday a postponement of about a year to the beginning of a ban on production and import of mid- ...

If the federal agency prevails, some of the most effective extreme-pressure agents in metalworking will vanish from the U.S. market by next May.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stated it could eliminate mid- and long-chain chlorinated paraffins in U.S. commerce as early as May 2016 usi ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a Significant New Rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act for alkanes C12-13, chloro, a short-chai ...

Metalworking fluid manufacturers are waiting - and waiting - to learn if EPA will put restrictions on one of their favorite extreme-pressure agents.

Beginning this year, Europes chemical regulation will generate reams of safety data, and even companies beyond the Continent will face a thorny dilemm ...

N-paraffins, the building block for chlorinated paraffins, could soon be in tight supply, warns a new report. Is it time to rethink your metalworking ...

Dover Chemical has risen from the most humble beginnings to become the U.S. leader in chlorinated paraffins.

Chemical supply concerns - more than base oil worries - are keeping metalworking fluid formulators on edge.

Recent research at Wisura GmbH disputes conventional theories about how metalworking fluids work. Joachim Schulz says a new model should lead to new a ...

Conventional theories about metalworking fluids state that they react chemically with the surfaces of metal workpieces during the short time that the ...

The U.S. metalworking fluids industry is waiting to learn how the United States will regulate medium- and long-chain chlorinated paraffins. Chlorinat ...

Seeing an opening for a second U.S.-based supplier of chlorinated paraffins, Qualice LLC recently launched operations in North Carolina. Charles R ...

Ineos Chlor Americas ended importation of short-chained chlorinated paraffins into the United States and agreed to pay a $175,000 civil penalty under ...

Regulatory pressures continue to push metalworking fluid formulators to find alternative chemistries, even in the absence of hard data to back up rest ...

Dover Chemical will pay $1.4 million in civil penalties for unauthorized manufacture of chlorinated paraffins at facilities in Dover, Ohio, and Hammon ...

Health Canada earlier this month updated its human health assessment for long-chain chlorinated paraffins to say they are not considered toxic to huma ...

Dover Chemical Corp. said it has nearly completed manufacturing integration of the Mayco and Keil Chemical businesses that it acquired in the past yea ...