Desmond Des King, current president of Chevron Oronite Co. LLC, will retire on Feb. 1, 2018, after more than 36 years with the company. King will be replaced by Bruce Chinn, now general manager of Chevron Pascagoula Refinery, effective Jan. 1, 2018. Former Lubrizol executive Stephen Kirk was named board chairman for Valvoline, replacing William Wulfsohn, who stepped aside as chairman as of Sept. 30, one year following Valvolines initial public offering in September 2016. Kirk served in an executive role at Lubrizol from 1992 until his retirement in 2011, and previously served on the boards of Ashland Global Holdings and energy and industrial markets equipment manufacturer Robbins & Myers Inc. German metalworking fluids manufacturer Oelheld held an open house Sept. 28 to introduce its new 24,000 square foot manufacturing and warehouse facility in West Dundee, Illinois, that houses increased production capacity and storage, a new R&D lab and a tanker unloading station.
