Chlorinated Paraffins

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EPA Reveals Its Thinking on Chlorinated Paraffins

Lube Report - December 30, 2015

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public new documents regarding its preliminary risk assessment of medi ...

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Chlorinated Paraffins: No Quick Solutions

Lubes'n'Greases - December 23, 2015

Can very-long-chain chlorinated paraffins replace their cousins, which have been targeted by EPA?

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EPA Yields Little on Chlorinated Paraffins

Lubes'n'Greases - November 18, 2015

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

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EPA Gives Ground on CP Deadline

Lube Report - September 30, 2015

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday a postponement of about a year to the beginning of a ban on ...

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EPA Nixes Most Chlorinated Paraffins

Lubes'n'Greases - April 28, 2015

If the federal agency prevails, some of the most effective extreme-pressure agents in metalworking will vanish from the ...

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EPA: Most Chlorinated Paraffins Must Go

Lube Report - April 22, 2015

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stated it could eliminate mid- and long-chain chlorinated paraffins in U.S. com ...

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EPA Reiterates Short-Chain CP Concerns

Lube Report - December 24, 2014

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a Significant New Rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act for alkane ...

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Chlorinated Paraffins Saga Continues

Lubes'n'Greases - May 27, 2014

Metalworking fluid manufacturers are waiting - and waiting - to learn if EPA will put restrictions on one of their favor ...

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Will REACH Snag U.S. Companies?

Lubes'n'Greases - May 21, 2014

Beginning this year, Europes chemical regulation will generate reams of safety data, and even companies beyond the Conti ...

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Back to the Chemistry Lab?

Lubes'n'Greases - May 17, 2014

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

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From Hen House to Penthouse

Lubes'n'Greases - May 13, 2014

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

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Metalworkings Thirst

Lubes'n'Greases - May 8, 2014

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

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A New Model for Metalworking

Lubes'n'Greases EMEA - May 1, 2014

Recent research at Wisura GmbH disputes conventional theories about how metalworking fluids work. Joachim Schulz says a ...

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A New Model for Metalworking Fluids

Lube Report Asia - April 15, 2014

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

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CP Saga Continues

Lube Report - July 17, 2013

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

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Qualice Tilts at CP Market

Lube Report - June 5, 2013

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

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Ineos, EPA Settle CP Violation

Lube Report - August 29, 2012

Ineos Chlor Americas ended importation of short-chained chlorinated paraffins into the United States and agreed to pay a ...

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Metalworking Fluids: STLE’s ‘Hot Topic’

Lube Report - May 16, 2012

Regulatory pressures continue to push metalworking fluid formulators to find alternative chemistries, even in the absenc ...