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Quaker develops, produces, and markets a broad range of formulated chemical
specialty products for various heavy industrial and manufacturing applications
and, in addition, offers and markets chemical management services (“CMS”).
Quaker’s principal products and services include: (i) rolling lubricants (used
by manufacturers of steel in the hot and cold rolling of steel and by
manufacturers of aluminum in the hot rolling of aluminum); (ii) corrosion
preventives (used by steel and metalworking customers to protect metal during
manufacture, storage, and shipment); (iii) metal finishing compounds (used to
prepare metal surfaces for special treatments such as galvanizing and tin
plating and to prepare metal for further processing); (iv) machining and
grinding compounds (used by metalworking customers in cutting, shaping, and
grinding metal parts which require special treatment to enable them to tolerate
the manufacturing process, achieve closer tolerance, and improve tool life);