---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000081362-25-000061"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KWR"
cik: "0000081362"
company_name: "QUAKER CHEMICAL CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T06:08:37.048538+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Quaker Chemical shareholders elect four directors, approve executive compensation and auditor ratification

## Summary
- Directors elected: Mark A. Douglas, Sanjay Hinduja, William H. Osborne, Fay West (three-year terms).
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation approved: 15,656,914 for, 559,078 against.
- Ratification of PwC as independent auditor for FY2025 approved: 16,443,533 for, 235,558 against.
- Record date March 4, 2025; 17,670,915 shares outstanding; broker non-votes: 457,892.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000081362-25-000061
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KWR
- cik: 0000081362
- company_name: QUAKER CHEMICAL CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/81362/000008136225000061/0000081362-25-000061-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/81362/000008136225000061/kwr-20250507.htm

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