A week after Hurricane Harvey stopped drenching the U.S. Gulf Coast, there were signs of good news for the lubricants industry as refineries containin ...

Ingevity Corp. will acquire Georgia-Pacifics pine chemicals business – including tall oil fatty acids used in metalworking fluids and corrosion ...

Innov Oil completed an expansion at its Singapore lube additives plant - a project aimed at helping it meet growing demand for its olefin copolymer vi ...

Water ingress is the enemy of greased components. Pinpointing the proper formulation can minimize the damage.

Tianhe Chemicals Group reported Friday that it has finished building a plant that would upgrade base oils to API Group II and III base oil but that it ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP’s net income rebounded, Afton Chemicals operating profit slipped, Clean Harbors Safety-Kleen segment repo ...

Ineos Oxide, a branch of international chemical company Ineos, plans to construct new units to produce an array of oxo chemical derivatives, the compa ...

With a century of operations under its belt, Chevron Oronite anticipates a new spurt of growth from automotive, off-highway and industrial application ...

Orgkhim and Ilim set up a 50-50 joint venture to produce chemical products, including tall oil fatty acids and their derivatives, at a plant in northe ...

Lubricant additives supplier Infineum sold its Paratac brand of tackifiers and associated business to Functional Products Inc., the companies announce ...

The global amines market will grow at a compound annual rate of more than 5 percent from 2017 to 2021, with China and India expected to be the biggest ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency entered into consent orders that allow three companies to manufacture and import a wide range of chlorinated ...

Specialty chemicals company Tiarco is expanding its Dalton, Georgia, chemical production facility, which makes various component chemicals used to man ...

Greater automation in the food industry is raising the pressure on greases for processing equipment. A common compound in non-stick cookware can lift ...

Water in lubricating greases has been a concern for more than a century. Recent research shows that calcium sulfonate greases can be an answer to wate ...

OLYMPIC VALLEY, California – Global production of lubricating greases reached 2.57 billion pounds in 2016, according to fresh data released by t ...

Sasol Ltd. broke ground last week on an expansion of its alkoxylation plant in Chinas Jiangsu province that it will use in part to manufacture surfact ...

Sanyo Chemical Industries Ltd. is investing 900 million (U.S. $8 million) to expand one of its two additive plants in Japan by October, a spokesman to ...

Biocides are under great scrutiny by European Union regulators for their harmful impact on humans and environment. Besides the high cost of registerin ...

A Canadian proposal to lower application rates for a formaldehyde-free biocide based on a mixture known as CMIT/MIT has drawn opposition over concerns ...