The Lubrizol Corporation
29400 Lakeland Boulevard, Wickliffe, Ohio 44092-2298
News Release
Lubrizol Enables Preparation for Spec Upgrades
Lubrizol expands blending capacity in Texas
CLEVELAND, December 3, 2014 - The Lubrizol Corporation has enhanced its blending plant operations in Deer Park, Texas, as pending heavy-duty diesel, passenger car and marine diesel specification upgrades drive demand for higher-performing engine oils. The $28 million expansion will improve blending efficiency and increase capacity to ensure supply reliability as the market shifts and grows.
In addition to responding to market specifications, Lubrizol is also committed to improving service to its customers by investing in materials handling operations. An additional $37 million will provide infrastructure improvements to railcar loading and unloading operations and enhance tank truck and isotainer handling.
"The upgrades to our Deer Park facility come from anticipating the needs of our customers to help them meet present and future engine-oil performance requirements," says Dave Fries, corporate manufacturing director, Americas. "It's part of our commitment to putting our customers and their long-term success at the center of everything we do."
The expansion strengthens Deer Park's position as an efficient, high-volume finished product supplier. It includes installation of new component storage tanks, state-of-the-art automated piggable component manifolds, new automated unloading locations and additional capability in the company's automated inline blending technology. The project also reduces manual labor and improves flexibility and customer response time.
"We are in a unique position to be nimble and highly responsive to the needs of our customers," says Fries. The upgrades at Deer Park are a great example of our underlying commitment to investing in our people, processes and products to help our customers succeed around the world."
Lubrizol Additives is fully committed to helping companies differentiate and succeed by bringing unmatched market expertise, testing capabilities and global supply, part of its focus on working with customers to achieve Success Together. Learn more, visit Lubrizol.com/successtogether.
About The Lubrizol Corporation
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a technology-driven global company that combines complex, specialty chemicals to optimize the quality, performance and value of customers' products while reducing their environmental impact. It produces and supplies technologies to customers in the global transportation, industrial and consumer markets. These technologies include lubricant additives for engine oils, driveline and other transportation-related fluids, industrial lubricants, as well as additives for gasoline and diesel fuel. In addition, Lubrizol makes ingredients and additives for home care and personal care products and pharmaceuticals, and specialty materials, including plastics technology and performance coatings in the form of specialty resins and additives.
With headquarters in Wickliffe, Ohio, Lubrizol owns and operates manufacturing facilities in 17 countries, as well as sales and technical offices around the world. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol has approximately 7,500 employees worldwide. Revenues for 2013 were $6.4 billion. For more information, visit Lubrizol.com.
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