Corporate Profile for Nye Lubricants, dated Friday, Dec. 8, 2000

8 December 2000

Corporate Profile for Nye Lubricants, dated Friday, Dec. 8, 2000

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Published Date:   Dec. 8, 2000

Company Name:     Nye Lubricants, Inc.

Address:          12 Howland Rd.
                  Fairhaven, MA 02719

Main Telephone
 Number:          508-996-6721

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL)           www.nyelubricants.com

Chief Executive
 Officer:         George B. Mock

Public Relations
 Contact:         Ed Parr
 Business number: 508-998-7185
 E-mail address:  edparr@aol.com

Industry:         Synthetic Lubricants

Company Description: Nye Lubricants, Inc., is a privately held engineering company that formulates high quality synthetic lubricants using all known synthetic base oils, gellants, and additives. Typically, Nye collaborates with design engineers from a variety of industries to develop lubricants for discrete but critical "lubed-for-life" components that often must function in extreme operating environments. Once proven, these custom lubricants are frequently commercialized for sale to similar component manufacturers. Nye offers specialty oils and greases for practically every type moving metal and plastic part, including rolling element bearings, sintered bearings, switches, gears, slides, cams, detents, ball screws, lead screws, control cables, potentiometers, sliding position sensors, stationary separable electrical connectors. Nye also offers a line of specialty products, including motion and noise control compounds, electrically conductive greases, antimigration barrier films, heat sink compounds, magnetic recording media coatings, vacuum lubricants, and optical coupling gels and fluids. Nye's specialty services include ultrafiltration, small-quantity packaging and repackaging of lubricants, standard and private label lubricant kits, contract lubrication research, and technical seminars. Nye's products are specified in a full range of industries, including automotive, aerospace, appliance, aviation, electronics, medical instrumentation, office automation, paperboard manufacturing, power tools, photonics, recreational equipment, semiconductor manufacturing, telecommunications, and textiles. Founded in 1844, Nye employs 125 at its Fairhaven, Mass, headquarters. Nye also maintains regional engineering offices throughout the United States; a small volume distributor, TAI Lubricants, in Delaware; and a network of international distributors to serve industrial markets in Asia, Australia, Europe, South Africa, and South America.