Franklin G. Reick

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Franklin G. Reick (born 1930) is an inventor, industrial engineer, and businessman from New Jersey, who has secured his place at the forefront of lubrication technology in the United States and abroad for more than five decades. Reick founded Fluoramics Inc.,^[1] in 1966, a company in Mahwah, New Jersey, that has become known for the manufacturing, sales, and distribution of lubricants and sealants. The inventor’s foremost accomplishment is the development of Tufoil[1], a lubricant for automobile engines and other industrial products.

In 1990, Reick was chosen as “The Inventors of the Year”[2] by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, for his work in Superconductivity. That same year, Mr. Reick was one of the finalists for Inc. Magazine’s, “Entrepreneur of the Year.”

Tufoil, the brainchild of this award-winning inventor named, “The World’s Most Effective Lubricant,” in the Guinness Book of World Records, maintains global popularity for over 30 years. Reick created this lubricant and many others to serve many industrial products, such as weapons, automobiles and machinery. In addition to his extensive work with lubricants, Reick also has veritable expertise with greases, oxygen compatible thread sealants, Formula-8 and Lox-8[3], and toys using hydrophobic surfaces. The oxygen-safe thread sealants, certified by NASA and BAM, are used internationally by the medical and cryogenic communities as well as on oil rigs.

Reick’s latest invention, SSKI[4] wax, was launched in 2008, by Briareos Inc. the sister company of Fluoramics. SSKI is one of the first ever hydrophobic, solvent-free ski waxes introduced to the ski and snowboard industry.

Reick attended Syracuse University, where he obtained a degree in industrial engineering in the early 50s. From there, Reick went on to hold engineering, consultant, and executive positions at companies such as General Electric, International Telephone and Telegraph Company, and two industrial lubrication companies, Mectrol and Fluoramics Inc.

Reick has received a host of accolades throughout his lifetime, holds over two dozen United States and Foreign Patents and has written an array of industrial engineering papers published in a variety of professional journals. Currently, Reick is on the board of the Foundation of Free Enterprise[5]. His goal has always been, "If you can't do it better than everyone else, don't waste your time doing it."

1 Publications
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Publications

"Flying the Stock Market: Pilot Your Dollars to Success", by Franklin G. Reick and Bruce G. Siminoff (Author), Glenbridge Publishing, (January 1997)[6].

"Low Temperature Signal Detection in Optically Pumpe\d Rubidium Vapor": published in Journal of Applied Physics [7], November 1970.

"The Optical Whispering Mode of Polished Cylinders and It's Implication in Laser Technology": published in Applied Optics [8], November 1965.

"Through a Glass Brightly": published in Electronics, February 5, 1968.

"Stable PTFE Colloids as Lubricating Oil Additives": published as a series in American Laboratory Magazine- Part 1, June 1977; Part 2, March 1978.

"Energy-Saving Lubricants": published in Lubrication Engineering. Volume 38, 10, 635-646, May 1981.

"Intensity Distribution of Light Leaving a Hemicylinder": published in proceedings of the Symposium on Quasi-Optics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, June 1964.