Additives

More Moly from Chile

November 28, 2007

Xstrata Coppers North Chile Division on Monday announced commencement of feasibility studies on an expansion that would more than double molybdenum pr ...

Dow Biocides has announced price increases for biocides used in metalworking fluids, and Dow Chemical has announced a price hike on a type of glycol u ...

MetalCorp Ltd. last week announced the start of drilling at its Playter molybdenum-silver project on the western end of its Big Lake property in north ...

Rohmax Oil Additives, Dow Chemical and Chattem recently announced price increases for certain chemical products. Rohmaxs products are lubricant additi ...

Dow Hikes Biocide Price

August 1, 2007

Dow Biocides, a business unit of Dow Chemical, Monday announced it is raising list and off-list prices for its entire glutaraldehyde product portfolio ...

Grease production in China saw a dramatic 71.5 percent increase from 2005 to 2006, according to NLGIs latest grease production survey, leading a world ...

Specialty automotive aftermarket supplier Industrial Enterprises of America Inc. last week purchased Hi-Tach Oil Co. Inc. for $350,000 in a combinatio ...

Specialty chemicals maker Degussa GmbH of Dusseldorf, Germany, announced it will sell its antioxidant activities to a subsidiary of the Starnberg hold ...

Memphis, Tenn.-based International Paper announced on Dec. 19 it will sell its Arizona Chemical business – whose oleochemicals products are used ...

As the lubricants industry girds for the introduction of the European Unions REACH legislation, metalworking fluid suppliers in the region are already ...

Two Canadian companies — Quinto Technology Inc. and Gowest Amalgamated Resources Ltd. — hope to find new sources of graphite and molybdeni ...

Dow Biocides and BASF have recently hiked prices for chemicals used in lubricant manufacturing. Dow Biocides announced a global price increase of 10 ...

Newly formed chemical company Vertellus Specialties announced last week that it has begun expansion of its existing Greensboro, N.C., facility to incl ...

Great Gobs of Grease!

July 26, 2006

Reported worldwide grease production in 2005 topped 1.9 billion pounds (862 million kilograms), up 1.5 percent from 2004, according to the latest grea ...

Ciba Specialty Chemicals announced Friday that it has entered a joint venture with a Chinese chemical maker to build an antioxidant factory outside Sh ...

Idaho General Mines Inc. announced Monday that it has filed a plan of operations with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, a key step in realizing its ...

Dow Chemical Co. said last week that its biocides business unit and its Angus Chemical Co. subsidiary will open five new regional customer application ...

The global market for biocides in metalworking fluids was valued at $105 million in 2005, a 40 percent jump from a decade earlier, a market research f ...

Specialty chemical maker International Specialty Products Inc. announced Jan. 20 that it has purchased Progiven, a French manufacturer of biocides. IS ...

Pine chemical supplier Arizona Chemical and six other businesses are targeted for possible sale or spin-off as part of a major restructuring to improv ...