Pilot Chemical Hosted USA Luge Sochi 2014 Bronze Medalist Erin Hamlin

CINCINNATI, Sept. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Pilot Chemical Company hosted USA Luge 2014 Bronze Medalist Erin Hamlin at its headquarters in Sharonville, Ohio today. Hamlin, a three-time Olympian, won the bronze medal at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia earlier this year.

"As a U.S. National Luge Team sponsor, we were thrilled to have Erin Hamlin at our headquarters today," said Pam Butcher, President and Chief Operating Officer of Pilot Chemical Company. "She's an inspiring athlete whose journey from the Slider Search to Olympic Bronze Medalist shows how hard work and dedication pay off. Our employees enjoyed hearing her story."

Hamlin was the first-ever U.S. Olympic medalist in singles luge and the first female in U.S. luge history to stand on the Olympic podium. The U.S. Olympic Committee also recognized her as the Best Female Winter Olympian based on fan voting. Hamlin shared with Pilot Chemical employees how she began her journey to reach her Olympic goals and the hard work and dedication it took to achieve them.

"Sponsors like Pilot Chemical make dreams come true for our athletes," said Fred Zimny, recruitment manager for USA Luge and U.S. Olympic Committee Coach of the Year in 2000. "Erin's story shows how the Slider Search, our recruitment tool, works and can produce medal winning athletes."

"Being a USA Luge sponsor has helped Pilot Chemical foster community engagement and given our employees the opportunity to support a fellow ice-cold winner to express our national pride," added Butcher.

Pilot Chemical has been an official supporter of USA Luge since February 2013. The sponsorship aligns two organizations that find success in an ice-cold environment. As in the sport of luge, where athletes only succeed through skill, practice and the use of technology, Pilot Chemical Company has built its success on its patented ice-cold sulfonation/sulfation technology, which uses an extremely low temperature reaction to produce high quality specialty chemicals and surfactants.

U.S. Luge athletes have captured over 600 international medals since 1994. Included in that total five medals won at the Olympic Winter Games, 25 World Cup victories, four overall World Cup doubles crowns, 18 Junior World Championship titles and 12 Senior World Championship medals.

About Pilot Chemical Company

Pilot Chemical is a privately owned and independent global specialty chemical company providing high quality products and services to the household and industrial detergent, personal care, lubricant, oilfield, emulsion polymerization, textile and agriculture industries. Proprietary core technologies involve alkylation, sulfonation, sulfation and a number of other specialty operations. Pilot, an industry leader in chemical innovation and safety, owns the most state-of-the-art continuous sulfation process in North America and is the world's largest manufacturer of disulfonates. Pilot Chemical Company is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. To learn more, visit www.pilotchemical.com.

About USA Luge
USA Luge is an Olympic class member organization of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and is the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport of luge in the United States. A not-for-profit organization, USA Luge - the official American representative to the International Luge Federation (F.I.L.) - is based in Lake Placid, N.Y. with a western office in Park City, Utah, and its natural track operations in the Marquette/Negaunee, Mich. area. Chartered in 1979, as a direct result of the Congressional Amateur Sports Act of 1978, it is the responsibility of USA Luge to recruit, prepare, train and equip the United States National Luge Team for international and Olympic competition, as well as promote the growth of the sport nationwide.

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