Letter from the CEO

Whether it’s the meshing of industrial gears or polymer films that allow fabrics to breathe, you’ll find The Lubrizol Corporation’s technical knowledge and innovative solutions meeting or exceeding the needs of our customers and end-users around the world each and every day. This technical expertise, coupled with our powerful global presence and our leading positions in the markets we serve, provides us the foundation to deliver the best overall solutions to our customers facing the challenges of a complex and evolving marketplace.

As we have done for more than 80 years, Lubrizol focuses on optimizing the performance of fluids on various surfaces. And we are recognized as experts in surfacing specialty chemical solutions that help our customers improve the performance of their products.

The company continues to be guided by its corporate philosophy established by our founders. Our culture values technical innovations, rewards employee efforts and respects the communities the company calls “home”. We believe these standards of behavior provide commercial benefits as well as social ones.

Our emphasis on personal initiative and straightforward, respectful communication with one another attracts employees who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Our focus on our customers and shareholders demonstrates the interconnection we know to exist between their successes and our own.

Our commitment to local philanthropy reflects our understanding that for us to be a sustainable enterprise, the communities where we operate must be sustainable as well. 

And we believe that our philosophy captures principles that are more than just the right things to do. They are what distinguish the great companies from the merely good ones.

I am extremely proud of our company, and I invite your to learn more about us through this Web site.

James L. Hambrick
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer