Health Canada earlier this month updated its human health assessment for long-chain chlorinated paraffins to say they are not considered toxic to huma ...

Croda Inc. opened a facility to make esters for lubricants at its Atlas Point manufacturing site in Delaware. The project will increase the companys U ...

Lonza will acquire 100 percent of Arch Chemicals shares for $47.20 per share in a transaction valued at $1.4 billion. Both Basel, Switzerland-based L ...

PARIS – Following a major reorganization, the European REACH Grease Thickeners Consortium is on target to submit its REACH dossier for the most ...

After shrinking almost 10 percent in 2009, how did global lubricating grease production fare in 2010? That’s what the National Lubricating Greas ...

Rhone Capital will sell a controlling interest in Arizona Chemical to private equity firm American Securities. Terms of the agreement have not been di ...

Do you know of or work at a machine shop or metalworking facility where biocides are used to control harmful microbes or fungus in the machining fluid ...

Lube oil additives marketer Petroleum Chemicals has moved to a larger facility in Sacramento, Calif., to accommodate business and staff expansions. P ...

Henkel last week informed the 89 employees at Acheson Colloids Port Huron, Mich., plant that the site will close at the end of 2010, due to severe und ...

A third-party independent laboratory began testing motor oil samples from Shell installers in Detroit this month, part of a Shell Lubricants campaign ...

Total reported grease production worldwide reached 2.25 billion pounds (1 billion kilograms) in 2008, and was 2.3 billion pounds in 2007, according to ...

RohMax Oil Additives recently announced a price increase on its lubricant additives, and BASF said it would raise prices in some regions for polyether ...

Trade secrets. Clandestine meetings. Wired money transfers. Downloading confidential data. Those arent scenes from a spy thriller, but instead part of ...

MeadWestvaco Corp. Specialty Chemicals and Chemserve (Chemicals Services Ltd.) are equal partners in the joint venture Resitec Industria Quimica Ltda. ...

Chemtura announced an increase in prices for a range of petroleum additive products and a boost in production of its Synton brand of PAO products at i ...

Dow Biocides on Monday announced it would increase its U.S. production capacity for glutaraldehyde by 60 percent as of January 2009, when it expects t ...

Oleon has started a new distillation tower at its fatty acid plant in Ertvelde, Belgium, a year after a fire destroyed part of the plants main distill ...

Moly Mines Ltd. has awarded a $1.1 billion Australian (U.S. $997.9 million), seven year mining and earthmoving contract for the Spinifex Ridge Molybde ...

The board of directors of automotive aftermarket supplier Industrial Enterprises of America terminated chief financial officer Jorge Yepes, who had be ...

Climax Molybdenums mine high in the Colorado Rockies is slated to resume operations, driven by growing demand in China for use in steel, but also bene ...