R.T. Vanderbilt Company, Inc. is pleased to announce that it is beginning global sales of VANLUBE BHC (a liquid hindered phenolic antioxidant, known chemically as butylated hydrohydroxy cinnamate) to the lubricant industry. The product will be custom-manufactured to R.T. Vanderbilt Company’s specification by Songwon Industrial Company, Ltd. through an agreement with Songwon International Americas, Inc.

"The addition of VANLUBE BHC expands our current antioxidant offerings to the lubricant industry. We believe that this addition, coupled with our technical and application expertise, will give us a leadership position as an antioxidant supplier," according to Steve Donnelly, Global Business Manager of Vanderbilt’s Petroleum Department. "We look forward to providing our customers with improved value in support of their lubricant formulations."

"Other than the classic zinc dithiophosphates, the antioxidants used to formulate today’s modern automotive and industrial lubricants include aromatic amines, hindered phenols, sulfur compounds, and organo-metallic compounds like molybdenum," said Glenn Mazzamaro, Global Industry/OEM Liaison Manager for Vanderbilt’s Petroleum Department. "With the introduction of VANLUBE BHC, Vanderbilt is now the only company which can offer this wide range of antioxidant chemistry on a global basis."

R.T. Vanderbilt Company, headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, operates two chemical manufacturing plants in the U.S.—in Bethel, Connecticut, and Murray, Kentucky, and is also a distributor of chemicals and polymers for many large suppliers. The company, which also produces minerals, was founded in 1916 and recently celebrated its ninetieth anniversary.

Songwon International Americas, Inc. is the US affiliate of Songwon Industrial Company, Ltd. of Ulsan, South Korea. Songwon Industrial, founded forty years ago, is a leading producer of antioxidants and heat stabilizers for the plastics industry, as well as of additives for PVC, plasticizers, lubricants, surface coating agents, polyurethane, alkyl phenols, flocculants, and other chemicals.

For additional information, contact Cheryl Remson at (203) 853-1400 or  e-mail her at cremson@rtvanderbilt.com.