The Lubrizol Corporation
The Lubrizol Corporation is an innovative specialty chemical company focused on improving the quality and performance of our customers’ products in the global transportation, industrial and consumer markets. While we serve many different markets, similar technologies drive their growth. Our focus is on surface active chemistries, rheology modifiers, and polymer and film technologies. Our customers know and value our ability at solving their problems and our ability to provide them with differentiable performance claims that they use in marketing their products.

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer: James L. Hambrick
2008 Revenues: $5.0 billion
Headquarters: Cleveland, Ohio USA
Number of Employees Worldwide: 6,800

Lubrizol Additives
The Lubrizol legacy was built upon the unprecedented pioneering of lubricant additives designed to improve the performance of fuels and lubricants for transportation and industry. Our engine oil additives offer an expansive range of applications, from cars to construction equipment, motorcycles to marine vessels. We also have a full range of gasoline, diesel and biofuel additives that can improve the performance of our customers’ fuels. As the only additive company with a product line for all on- and off-road driveline applications, Lubrizol provides advanced technologies for use in transmission fluids, gear oil and farm tractor fluids. In addition, we offer performance additive packages and components for a wide range of industrial lubrication applications.

Lubrizol Advanced Materials
With an impressive history extending back to the 1870s (formerly BFGoodrich Performance Materials), Lubrizol Advanced Materials is a leading global producer of advanced specialty polymers, polymer-based additives and chemical additives.  Used in everyday consumer and industrial applications, our additives and ingredients can be found in everything you touch, from personal care products to pharmaceuticals, plastics technology to performance coatings. Businesses include: Estane® Engineered Polymers; Noveon® Consumer Specialties; Performance Coatings; and TempRite® Engineered Polymers Research, Manufacturing and Sales

The Lubrizol Corporation is geographically diverse, with an extensive global manufacturing, supply chain, technical and commercial infrastructure. Lubrizol owns and operates manufacturing facilities in 17 countries, as well as sales and technical offices around the world.

Contact Information
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Noveon® Consumer Specialties offers a versatile line of ingredients that have a long history of successful use in personal care, home care, pharmaceutical and food formulations:

Our specialty ingredients focus on claims-driving, indispensable technology for personal care applications and are used to enhance the rheology, sensorial appeal and overall aesthetics of formulations.

Household, Institutional and Industrial (HI&I) ingredients add value to product formulations, economically, through increased performance and enhanced applications. Our materials improve overall product functionality and product delivery.

Our high performance pharmaceutical ingredients are used in both prescription and over-the-counter products. The ingredients impart valuable functional benefits to finished drug products such as controlling drug release from tablets and improving flow properties in semisolid and liquid formulations.

Lubrizol is a global supplier of unique food ingredients that are suitable as natural texturizers for a variety of applications including ice cream, dairy, meat, and canned pet food.

Recognized brand names include: Carbopol® polymers, the industry standard in rheology modification, stabilization and suspension, naturally derived methyl glucoside derivatives such as Glucamate™ thickeners and emulsifiers, Glucam™ and Glucquat™ humectants, and Glucate™ emulsifiers, Fixate™ styling polymers, sensory modifiers like Schercemol™ and Hydramol™ esters, SilSense® specialty silicones and lanolin derivatives, Chembetaine™ and Sulfochem™ surfactants and performance blends, Diagum™ hydrocolloids and Novethix™ L-10 polymers for HI & I applications.

As part of the Lubrizol family, Noveon® Consumer Specialties is positioned to take innovation further, with advanced technology, unsurpassed expertise, a strong global infrastructure and, always, one focus: our customers’ success. Noveon® Consumer Specialties is here to support formulators every step of the way with a balanced portfolio of high quality specialty
ingredients, plus a wide variety of prototypes, starting formulations and technical knowledge all backed by unsurpassed technical support and a global supply chain. It’s our business to help our customers succeed.

Products and Applications
This global business supplies specialty ingredients to the following markets:

Personal Care
• Hair care
• Hair styling
• Personal cleansing
• Skin care
• Sun care
• Color cosmetics

Household, Institutional and Industrial
• Hard Surface Cleaners
• Fabric Care
• Auto Cleaning Care
• Dish Care
• Thickened Deicing Systems
• Alkaline Batteries

Pharmaceuticals
• Tablets and capsules
• Gels, lotions, creams
• Oral liquids
• Bulk laxatives
• Bioadhesive formulations
• Toothpaste

Food
• Cheese and other dairy products
• Meat products
• Wet pet food

Research, Manufacturing and Sales
The Lubrizol Corporation is geographically diverse, with an extensive global manufacturing, supply chain, technical and commercial infrastructure. Lubrizol owns and operates manufacturing facilities in 18 countries, as well as sales and technical offices around the world.