Articles from Lubrizol

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.