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Afton Chemical

Chemical company in Richmond, Virginia
Organization business Q4690829
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Summary

Afton Chemical is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (448 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Afton Chemical is in the country of GB[3].
  • Afton Chemical's instance of is recorded as business[4].
  • Afton Chemical is owned by NewMarket Corporation[5].
  • Afton Chemical's headquarters location is recorded as Richmond[6].
  • Afton Chemical's industry is recorded as chemical industry[7].
  • 1975 marks the founding of Afton Chemical[8].
  • 1975-05-19 marks the founding of Afton Chemical[9].
  • Afton Chemical's parent organization or unit is recorded as NewMarket Corporation[10].
  • Afton Chemical's official website is recorded as http://www.aftonchemical.com[11].
  • Afton Chemical's product or material produced is recorded as chemical industry[12].
  • Afton Chemical's legal form is recorded as H0PO[13].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 9845004A1B2D8D11EF65[14]

  • Registered legal name: Afton Chemical Limited[15]

  • Legal jurisdiction: GB[16]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[17]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): H0PO[18]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[19]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[20]

  • Entity created: 1975-05-19[21]

  • LEI first registered: 2023-04-11[22]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-02-10[23]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-04-11[24]

  • Managing LOU: 529900T8BM49AURSDO55[25]

  • Registration authority: RA000585[26]

  • Authority entity ID: 01213092[27]

  • Other names: Ethyl Petroleum Additives Limited, Edwin Cooper & Company Limited[28]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[29]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 1975[8] and 1975-05-19[9].

Operations

Afton Chemical's headquarters location is recorded as Richmond[6]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as NewMarket Corporation[10].

Industry

Afton Chemical's industry is recorded as chemical industry[7].

Ownership

Afton Chemical is owned by NewMarket Corporation[5]. Its product or material produced is recorded as chemical industry[12].

Why It Matters

Afton Chemical ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (448 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [14] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [18] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Parent organization or unit → NewMarket Corporation
    P14750 → 835B-8677-23F0-6868-B0F8
    Instance of → business
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 835B-8677-23F0-6868-B0F8, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269256|batch #269256]]"
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