Steve Swedbergs Automotive column examines the diverging technical demands of gasoline and diesel engine oils.

The U.S. metalworking fluids industry is waiting to learn how the United States will regulate medium- and long-chain chlorinated paraffins. Chlorinat ...

Seeing an opening for a second U.S.-based supplier of chlorinated paraffins, Qualice LLC recently launched operations in North Carolina. Charles R ...

Lonza will shut down its biocide plant in Swords, Ireland, in June as part of a corporate cost-cutting effort, the company announced Thursday in its f ...

Gulf Oil will begin producing greases and lubricants at its Ras Al-Khaimah plant in the United Arab Emirates tomorrow. The operation is slated to prod ...

Arizona Chemical broke ground on a $10 million, 27,000 square foot science and technology center in Georgia that will be the new home for its U.S. res ...

Ineos Chlor Americas ended importation of short-chained chlorinated paraffins into the United States and agreed to pay a $175,000 civil penalty under ...

The worlds lubricating grease manufacturers created nearly 2.4 billion pounds of the stuff during 2011, a record-high volume, according to data releas ...

Regulatory pressures continue to push metalworking fluid formulators to find alternative chemistries, even in the absence of hard data to back up rest ...

Irans Pars Oil is preparing to open a second grease plant at its refinery near Tehran. Officials said the new plant, which will have capacity of 2,000 ...

Dover Chemical will pay $1.4 million in civil penalties for unauthorized manufacture of chlorinated paraffins at facilities in Dover, Ohio, and Hammon ...

Newly formed P2 Science is using technology licensed from Yale University to develop and manufacture a new class of surfactants that has potential use ...

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 ...