QUAKER CHEMICAL CORP

The Company has a compliance program, the governing documents of which include a Code of Conduct (which is applicable to all of the Company’s directors, executive officers and employees) and a Financial Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Officers (which is applicable to the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Corporate Controller, each Controller at majority-owned affiliates, and other individuals performing similar functions designated by the Board). The Company’s compliance program embodies the Company’s global principles and practices relating to the ethical conduct of the Company’s business and its longstanding commitment to fairness, honesty, integrity and full Company compliance with all laws affecting the Company’s business.

The compliance program includes a way for employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders and other interested parties to submit confidential and anonymous reports of suspected or actual violations of the Company’s Code of Conduct or the Financial Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Officers relating, among other things, to:

•accounting practices, internal accounting controls, or auditing matters and procedures;

•theft or fraud of any amount;

•insider trading;

•performance and execution of contracts;

•conflicts of interest;

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•violations of securities and antitrust laws; and

•violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or other anti-corruption regulations.

Any employee, shareholder or other interested party can call the Quaker Houghton Hotline, which is a set of country- specific toll-free telephone lines dedicated solely to receiving questions and concerns and directing them to the appropriate authority for action. All calls are answered by an independent third-party service available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Alternatively, any employee, shareholder or other interested party may report such activity or issues viawww.integritycounts.ca/org/quakerhoughton, an independent third-party provider. At that website, an interested party will be provided with a case number, which will allow the individual to request a follow-up. To further track the case, one may also request a login and password, which will allow the individual to follow-up on the case as necessary.

The Audit Committee oversees the administration of the Company’s compliance program and is directly responsible for the disposition of all reported violations of the Financial Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Officers and complaints received regarding accounting, internal accounting controls or audit matters. In addition, the Audit Committee is responsible for the disposition of all violations of (and approves any requested waivers to) the Code of Conduct for directors and executive officers and for the disposition of other serious violations of the Code of Conduct. No such waivers were requested in 2025. We maintain a current copy of our Financial Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Officers on our website athttps://www.quakerhoughton.com under the heading Investors/Corporate Governance and will promptly post any amendments to or waivers of our Financial Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Officers.