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Metalworkings Thirst

May 8, 2014

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 ...

CP Saga Continues

July 17, 2013

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, EPA Settle CP Violation

February 15, 2012

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 ...