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What is different about International
Lubricants, Inc.?
International Lubricants, Inc., maker
of LUBEGARD® automotive products,
is a leading manufacturer of both automotive
and industrial lubricants representing
quality, performance and value in today's
demanding market, and has led the industry
in developing environmentally safe, seed-based
lubricants.
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Sperm Whale
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Years ago, sperm whale oil and
its deriatives were used as additives
in virtually all automotive lubricants.
The products were so effective that
a car's transmission fluids were
generally never changed, and the
transmission lasted the life of
the car. Some 30 million pounds
of sperm whale oil were used every
year; to supply the demand, hundreds
of thousands of whales were slaughtered
until the species was faced with
extinction.
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In 1972 the Endangered Species Act outlawed
the killing of whales and the use of materials
derived from whales. For years the automotive
industry relied on other animal based products
such as tallow or lard oil. These proved
to be an inadequate substitue, leading to
poor overall drivetrain performance, premature
drivetrain failure and transmission failure
due to heat. A dedicated and highly skilled
research team, in conjunction with the Department
of Agriculture, developed a revolutionary
new technology derived from vegetable oils.
Liquid Wax Esters®, with a chemical
configuration similar to sperm whale oil,
have been shown to outperform sperm whale
oil.
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Liquid Wax Esters provide the
answer
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International Lubricants, Inc.
(ILI) pioneered the use of Liquid
Wax Esters through their LUBEGARD®
products, with patented LXE®
technology. LUBEGARD®
Automatic Transmission Fluid Protectant
is the number one product used in
the professional transmission rebuild
industry, and the only product of
its kind to be used and approved
by major automobile manufacturers(OEMs).
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Field of Rapeseed,
used in formulating LXE®
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Unlike it's competitors, who purchase
prepackaged additives from commodity chemical
manufacturers and mix them together, International
Lubricants, Inc. reacts its own raw materials
to create the unique derivatives found
only in LUBEGARD® patented
products.
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Phillip S. Landis,
Ph.D.
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LUBEGARD® technology
was developed under the direction
of Phillip S. Landis, Ph.D., a highly
distinquished research chemist who
headed the Mobil Oil Applied Lubrication
Research Group until his retirement
in 1984. Dr. Landis is a worldwide
leader in the mechanistic studies
of elimination, rearrangement and
pyrolysis reactions of additive
preparations for fuel and lubricant
applications, and of catalytic organic
reactions and petrochemicals. He
holds more than one hundred patents.
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ILI's groundbreaking research in vegetable-based
replacements of hydrocarbon oils has led
to research grants in excess of $2 million
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
the Department of Defense and the Soy
Bean Board. The Agricultural Research
and Comercialization Corporation, a division
of the USDA, believes so strongly in ILI's
products and research that they own stock
in the company.
International Lubricants, Inc., currently
holds over forty US and foreign patents.
Their research efforts ensure that they
remain on the cutting edge of new product
development and product improvments.
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