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Basis of Presentation and Description of Business
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Basis of Presentation and Description of Business Basis of Presentation and Description of Business
As used in these Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2025 (the “Report”), the terms “Quaker Houghton,” the “Company,” “we,” and “our” refer to Quaker Chemical Corporation (doing business as Quaker Houghton), its subsidiaries, and associated companies, unless the context otherwise requires.
Basis of Presentation
The condensed consolidated financial statements included herein are unaudited and have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial reporting and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regulations. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. In the opinion of management, the financial statements reflect all adjustments, which are of a normal recurring nature, necessary for a fair statement of the financial position, results of operations, and cash flows for the interim periods. The results for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s Annual Report filed on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 (the “2024 Form 10-K”). Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.
Description of Business
The Company was organized in 1918 and incorporated as a Pennsylvania business corporation in 1930. Quaker Houghton is the global leader in industrial process fluids. With a presence around the world, including operations in over 25 countries, the Company’s customers include thousands of the world’s most advanced and specialized steel, aluminum, automotive, aerospace, offshore, container, mining, and metalworking companies. Quaker Houghton develops, produces, and markets a broad range of formulated chemical specialty products and offers chemical management services, which the Company refers to as FluidcareTM, for various heavy industrial and manufacturing applications sold in its three reportable segments: (i) Americas; (ii) Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”); and (iii) Asia/Pacific.
Hyper-inflationary economies
Argentina’s and Türkiye’s economies were considered hyper-inflationary under U.S. GAAP effective July 1, 2018 and April 1, 2022, respectively. As of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company’s Argentine and Turkish subsidiaries together represented approximately 1% and 2% of the Company’s consolidated total assets and net sales, respectively. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company recorded $0.9 million and $2.1 million of remeasurement losses associated with the applicable currency conversions, respectively. Comparatively, during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company recorded $0.6 million and $0.3 million of remeasurement losses associated with the applicable currency conversions, respectively. These losses were recorded within Other (expense) income, net, in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.