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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...