Additive Components

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

An Overview of Additives

October 2, 2023

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

How did a pivotal moment in the life of the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory have positive consequences for additives?

A subcommittee of the European Chemicals Agency recommended recently that medium-chain chlorinated paraffins be phased out of use in metalworking flui ...

British lubricant additives maker SBZ Corp. announced it has begun manufacturing its lubricant additive packages in the United States, part of a strat ...

Additech, a lubricant additive joint venture between the Russian and Belarus oil majors Lukoil and Naftan, expanded its production capacity to 40,000 ...

In step with central government goals for a wide range of sectors, China’s lubricant industry is in a hurry to develop domestic replacements for imp ...

Avalon Advanced Materials and Metso Corp. reached a memorandum of understanding this week to develop a lithium hydroxide production facility in the Ca ...

Aug. 14 is the deadline for comments on a European Chemicals Agency draft opinion on a proposal to restrict medium-chain chlorinated paraffins and oth ...

A Russian motorist group complained to the central government last week that the country faces a growing shortage of automotive engine oils and qualit ...

North America’s lubricating grease production jumped up 16% in 2022, signaling a further rebounding from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, accor ...

European grease production declined slightly in 2022, dipping less than a third of one percent compared to the prior year, according to the National L ...

Use of lithium soap grease thickeners dropped significantly in China and South Asia in 2022, according to the latest version of the National Lubricati ...

The supply chain for electric vehicles is becoming more central to the United States’ automotive sector, making it crucial for the country to access ...

Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd. is buying a maleic anhydride plant from its Malaysian joint venture with BASF and plans to upgrade the facility to produ ...

New Engine and Fuel Technology Opens Doors for Corrosion Inhibitors  Each year on April 24, World Corrosion Awareness Day shines the spotlight ...

BASF is gradually adding alkoxylation capacity – in part to produce chemicals with uses in lubricants – at its plants in Belgium and Germany start ...

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font unveiled a plan recently to nationalize the country’s lithium industry, declaring that the nation should make t ...

Major players in the lubricant additives space are allocating significant resources to developing sustainable additives. How will these additives cont ...

Afton Chemical posted a 52% climb in operating profit for the quarter ending March 31, primarily due to higher selling prices, and sales increased 6%, ...