Richful Lube Additive Co. plans to build its second factory – located in Cangzhou, Hebei province, China – after conducting an initial public stoc ...

A recent study forecasts an 8% supply deficit for crude tall oil for all applications by 2030 because of high demand for its use in transportation-rel ...

The Readers Have Spoken  My wife and I were watching beach volleyball in Laguna Beach, California, on January 1. As the sun set, one player ye ...

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. announced last week that it has finished building a plant that will make synthetic hydrocarbon fluids that it markets under the ...

German auto giant Volkswagen is holding course on investing multi-billions into its electrification future.

Japan’s Sanyo Chemical Industries delayed until early next year the start of operations at its new viscosity index improver plant in South Korea bec ...

Afton Chemical reported higher operating profit and a decrease in sales for its third quarter, and Valvoline’s operating income and sales from its t ...

A lubricant additive factory that ExxonMobil operates on behalf of Infineum is wrapping up an expansion of a facility that makes detergent components.

In effect since the start of the year, the International Marine Organization’s 2020 international convention was implemented to reduce air pollution ...

Emissions regulations threatened to steal engine oil formulators’ main weapon against wear. How has its use persisted?

There are a number of potential avenues of development and challenges for electric vehicle lubricant formulators, but whatever path they take, compreh ...

Chemicals distributor Brenntag said last week that it will change its operating model by forming two units – one to supply specialty chemicals and t ...

CDR will distribute Champion Lubricants’ passenger car products in the Italian market under a recently announced agreement.

Hong Kong’s securities regulator filed a complaint Wednesday accusing Tianhe Chemicals Group and its executive director of greatly overstating the c ...

Lubricant additive demand in the United States declined 9.5% through the first seven months of the year, according to data released recently by the Am ...

A financially struggling molybdenum mineral exploration and development company took steps last week to sell a mine in Nevada as part of an effort to ...

Lubrizol Corp. yesterday announced formation of a new business unit, Lubrizol Corporate Ventures, charged with growing the company in adjacent markets ...

The American Chemistry Council last week extended to Dec. 31 its emergency protocol meant to give companies flexibility to cope with scarcity of autom ...

Russian specialty chemical producer Vyazemsky Plant for Synthetic Products expanded its capacity to manufacture fatty acid esters, a feedstock for a v ...

Afton Chemical recorded lower operating profit and sales for its second quarter, and Valvoline reported decreases in operating income and sales for it ...