Electric vehicle battery makers domination of global lithium supplies leaves Indian grease makers vulnerable to shortages. One Hungarian grease manufa ...

Trevor Gauntlett celebrates the International Year of the Periodic Table.

Lanxess completed a 15 percent expansion to its global production capacity of corrosion inhibition additives, which are used in a number of products - ...

Ongoing research examines how tiny polymer beads can produce big performance benefits throughout a lubricants service life.

The search for an elusive additive that promises extreme pressure, antiwear and friction reduction in either water or oil may be over.

Afton Chemical posted higher operating profit for its fourth quarter and a decline in its full-year operating profit, and Valvoline reported a decreas ...

Polyisobutylene demand in Asia-Pacific currently lags behind North America and Europe, but is expected to take a big leap forward in the next decade, ...

BASF increased lubricant antioxidant capacity at its Puebla, Mexico, site to keep up with growing demand for additives that lengthen the life of lubri ...

Oxea released additional details yesterday about its previously discussed plan to increase production capacity of carboxylic acids, which are used for ...

Shepherd Chemical Co., a producer of metal-based lubricant additives, announced a multi-million dollar expansion that could double capacity at its Mir ...

Bio-derived base stocks arent the only way to go green. Researchers are upping the environmental ante with additives, too.

A small, Colorado-based blender has high-performance biobased lubes in its sights. The ammo? Colloidal dispersion.

Feiya Chemical Co. has opened a factory in Chinas Jiangsu province to produce lubricant antioxidants on behalf of BASF. The plant was built under a te ...

South Korea's new Act on Safety Control of Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides regulation took effect Jan. 1. Industry sources disagree about whet ...

Oxea lifted the force majeure declaration for products from its plant in Oberhausen, Germany, where production units are running at normal capacity ag ...

The grease industrys use of calcium thickeners is on the rise, spurred by a search for alternatives to increasingly expensive lithium and performance ...

The trade war between the United States and China was one of the major events of 2018 - a year that otherwise was relatively quiet for the lubricants ...

Malaysias Micratto Technologies Sdn. - founded by researchers at Sunway University - will produce graphene-based lubricants for automotive application ...

Tianhe Chemicals reported last month that it has launched lubricant additive packages for passenger car engine oils meeting the API SN and SL sequence ...

Tom Glenn weighs in on additive suppliers cost of doing business.