Additives manufacturer SI Group is expanding production capacity at its Rasal, India, factory for antioxidants used in lubricants and greases, and wil ...

Afton Chemical lifted its force majeure declaration effective Sept. 8, the company confirmed to Lube Report. In July, Afton notified customers it decl ...

Chevron Oronite said Thursday that it has completed an expansion of its lubricant additive manufacturing plant in Singapore – increasing the number ...

Piedmont Lithium chose Etowah, Tennessee as the site of a 30,000 metric tons per year lithium hydroxide plant, with completion and start of production ...

The volume of lubricant additives imported into Russia fell more than 70% in March, following the country’s invasion of Ukraine, but rebounded to a ...

Japan Lubricating Oil Society recently reported results of studies that it completed into the accuracy of test methods for friction, wear and load-bea ...

Vertex Energy Inc. reported a 178% increase in gross profit and increased sales for its used motor oil collection and processing business, and Perimet ...

Innov Oil announced completion of an expansion that more than doubles its capacity to produce the company’s X series of viscosity modifiers at its p ...

Afton Chemical declared force majeure effective July 26 because flooding at its additives plant in Sauget, Illinois – stemming from record rainfall ...

OQ Chemicals said Tuesday it reached a final investment decision to build additional propionic aldehyde capacity as well as infrastructure to support ...

Afton Chemical Corp. announced today that it completed a $70 million expansion at its lubricant additive factory in Sauget, Illinois – a project tha ...

Perstorp Group announced on July 7 that it has increased production capacity of 2-ethylhexanoic acid at its plant in Stenungsund, Sweden, to meet glob ...

Global grease production increased 8% in 2021, according to the latest survey by the National Lubricating Grease Institute, as the industry rebounded ...

Lubricating grease production in North America rose 9% in 2021, according to the National Lubricating Grease Institute’s latest annual survey. Produ ...

Albemarle Corp. opened an additional plant Monday at its lithium production site in Antofagasta, Chile, part of a strategy of helping to meet spiralin ...

Why are dispersants so important? How have they evolved over time? Will they continue to be a major formulation component in the future?

A research institute has developed two real-time methods for measuring the homogeneity of lubricating greases. What do these new methods entail, and h ...

Mexico’s government nationalized the country’s nascent lithium industry this week as legislators approved President Andrés Manuel López Obrado� ...

Perimeter Solutions SA’s oil additives business reported lower earnings and sales for the fourth quarter and lower earnings and higher sales for the ...

Brussels, Belgium-based Solvay announced last week it was reviewing plans to separate the company into two independent publicly traded companies – E ...