Additive Components

Lubrizol Earnings About Flat in 2023

Lubrizol Earnings About Flat in 2023

Lube Report Americas - March 13, 2024

Lubrizol’s pre-tax earnings for 2023 were relatively unchanged from 2022, although Berkshire Hathaway noted that they ...

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SI Enters Manufacturing Agreement in China

Lube Report Asia - March 1, 2024

SI Group has entered a long-term agreement to have some of its chemical products manufactured by Dingjide Petrochemical ...

Perstorp Opens Penta Plant in India

Perstorp Opens Penta Plant in India

Lube Report Asia - February 23, 2024

Perstorp inaugurated a pentaerythritol production plant in western India on Feb. 20, saying it will meet growing regiona ...

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Solvay Spins Off Specialty Chemicals Unit

Lube Report EMEA - January 23, 2024

Solvay last month completed the spin-off of its specialty chemicals business, which has been named Syensqo and supplies ...

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Richful Announces Project Delays

Lube Report Asia - January 12, 2024

Richful Lube Additive Co. last month announced delays for two major projects – the upgrading of a lubricant additives ...

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Grease

Factbook - December 29, 2023

Global production of lubricating grease saw a decrease of nearly 4% from 2021 to 2022, according to the National Lubrica ...

Lanxess Completes Sulfur Carrier Expansion

Lanxess Completes Sulfur Carrier Expansion

Lube Report EMEA - December 19, 2023

Lanxess completed an expansion at its Mannheim, Germany, factory of production capacity for sustainable light-color sulf ...

China to Ban Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins

China to Ban Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins

Lube Report Asia - December 8, 2023

China’s government will prohibit the use of short-chain chlorinated paraffins beginning Jan. 1, aligning with numerous ...

Rising Costs, Potential Regs Loom Over Lithium

Rising Costs, Potential Regs Loom Over Lithium

Lube Report EMEA - December 5, 2023

Lithium greases are under pressure from a run-up in lithium prices and from calls for the European Union to classify the ...

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BASF-YPC Makes Ethanolamines in China

Lube Report Asia - November 24, 2023

Sinopec and BASF recently inaugurated the downstream expansion of their petrochemicals joint venture in Nanjing, China ...

ExxonMobil to Enter Lithium Business

ExxonMobil to Enter Lithium Business

Lube Report Americas - November 15, 2023

ExxonMobil announced Monday that it will enter the lithium business by drilling a well for the mineral in Arkansas. The ...

Profits Rise for Afton, WD-40

Profits Rise for Afton, WD-40

Lube Report Americas - October 25, 2023

Afton Chemical reported a 68% jump in operating profit despite a 4% decline in sales for the quarter ending Sept. 30, as ...

Lubes’n’Greases October Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases October Issue Available

Lube Report Americas - October 11, 2023

The October issue features a special report on additives. Find out from where Russia is sourcing its additives after the ...

Lubes’n’Greases October Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases October Issue Available

Lube Report EMEA - October 10, 2023

The October issue features a special report on additives. Find out from where Russia is sourcing its additives after the ...

An Overview of Additives

An Overview of Additives

Lubes'n'Greases - October 2, 2023

Which factors have influenced the supply-demand dynamics for lubricant additives during the past few years?

Oppenheimer: The Lubricants Connection

Oppenheimer: The Lubricants Connection

Lubes'n'Greases - October 2, 2023

How did a pivotal moment in the life of the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory have positive co ...

Softer Chlorinated Paraffin Ban Advised for EU

Softer Chlorinated Paraffin Ban Advised for EU

Lube Report EMEA - September 19, 2023

A subcommittee of the European Chemicals Agency recommended recently that medium-chain chlorinated paraffins be phased o ...