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Shell Projects Strong Lube Earnings

Shell Projects Strong Lube Earnings

Royal Dutch Shell expects that annual earnings after tax for its global commercial business – most of which is accounted …

Fuchs Plant Set to Open in 2019

Fuchs Plant Set to Open in 2019

Fuchs Petrolub plans to start operation of its 36 million (U.S. $44.3 million) lubricants blending plant in Wujiang, a S …

NLGI to Award Research Grant Funds

NLGI to Award Research Grant Funds

NLGI aims to award up to $50,000 in research grant funds this year for high-level investigations into lubricating grease …

Valvoline to Raise Finished Lube Prices

Valvoline to Raise Finished Lube Prices

Valvoline notified customers of a price increase of up to 5 percent on branded lubricant products effective March 1. The …

BPs Q4 Lubricants Profits Up

BPs Q4 Lubricants Profits Up

BPs lubricants business reported an underlying replacement cost profit before interest and tax of $375 million for the f …

Synthetics, Inflation Boost Aftermarket Selling Prices

Synthetics, Inflation Boost Aftermarket Selling Prices

Consumers continued to trade up to higher priced synthetic motor oil in place of cheaper conventional oil, and inflation …

Apar JV Eyes Government Supply

Apar JV Eyes Government Supply

Indian transformer oils and lubes manufacturer Apar Industries Ltd. formed a joint venture with a car dealer that aims t …

BASF-Petronas Streams PIBs

BASF-Petronas Streams PIBs

BASF Petronas Chemicals Sdn began producing highly reactive polyisobutene in Malaysia last week. The joint venture said …

Shell to Raise Finished Lube Prices

Shell to Raise Finished Lube Prices

Shell informed U.S. customers about a price increase of up to 5 percent on finished lubricants effective Feb. 19, with d …

Grease Research Earns NLGI Grant

Grease Research Earns NLGI Grant

A scientific investigation into the mysteries of lubricating grease degradation and entropy has been awarded the NLGI Re …

ATF Labels to Gain Clarity in Some States Jan. 1

ATF Labels to Gain Clarity in Some States Jan. 1

Labels on automatic transmission fluid should be clearer starting Jan. 1 in the 19 states that automatically codify the …

Sinopec Project Doubles NPG Capacity

Sinopec Project Doubles NPG Capacity

BASF and Sinopec plan to double capacity of neopentyl glycol, a component of polyester resins for synthetic lubricants, …

Gulf Opens Chennai Lube Plant

Gulf Opens Chennai Lube Plant

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. opened its new blending plant in Chennai last week with capacity to make 50,000 metric to …

BP China to Add Third Plant

BP China to Add Third Plant

BP Lubricants announced that it plans to build a third blending plant in China by the end of 2021, in Tianjin. BP unveil …

KH Neochem, Continental and Yushiro Improve

KH Neochem, Continental and Yushiro Improve

Japans KH Neochem Co. and Yushiro Chemical Industry Co. both said lubricants-related products helped spur gains in recen …

Lihon Opens Second Blend Plant

Lihon Opens Second Blend Plant

Daqing, Heilongjiang province-based Lihon Lubricant opened its second production base earlier this month to double its l …

More U.S. Finished Lubricant Prices to Rise

More U.S. Finished Lubricant Prices to Rise

Shell, BP Lubricants USA, Phillips 66, Citgo and Omni Specialty Packaging informed U.S. customers of upcoming price incr …

U.S. Finished Lube Prices Rise

U.S. Finished Lube Prices Rise

ExxonMobil, Chevron, Chemlube, Cam2 International, Warren Oil, Pinnacle Oil and Smittys Supply notified U.S. customers o …