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| | Wednesday, February 27, 2002 | | VOLUME 2 ISSUE 9 |
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Toyota to Cover Oil Gelation Damage
While stressing that it is in no way at fault, Toyota Motor Sales USA has made a one-time offer to cover repair of customer vehicles damaged by engine oil gelation.
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| Metallo Out at ILMA
The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association is looking for a new executive director after the abrupt departure last week of Michael C. Metallo.
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| SAE Retools Fall Meeting
SAE International has expanded the scope of its former Fall Fuels and Lubricants Meeting and Exhibition and renamed the event the Powertrain and Fluid Systems Conference and Exhibition.
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| Ethyl Promotes Perry, Huang
Ethyl Corp. has promoted Newton A. Perry to the position of senior vice president of strategy, where he will be responsible for the company’s long-term planning. Perry joined the Richmond, Va., additive company in 1969 and served most recently as senior vice president of antiknocks. Ethyl also named C.S. Warren Huang senior vice president of fuel additives. He has been employed by the company since 1980, most recently as vice president and managing director of Ethyl Asia Pacific Co.
| ConocoPhillips Picks Nokes
Conoco and Phillips Petroleum Co. named several senior level managers for the company to be formed by their proposed merger, including the head of downstream operations. Upon completion of the merger, expected in the second half of 2002, Jim W. Nokes will become ConocoPhillips' executive vice president of refining, marketing, supply and transportation. He now holds the same post at Conoco, where he has worked since 1970.
| Base Oil Price Report
U.S. base oil suppliers this week completed an expected but ragged round of price cuts, triggered by ExxonMobil’s reductions Feb. 20.
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