Lithium

China’s grease industry continued shifting away from lithium soap thickeners, according to the latest survey from the United States-based National L ...

The grease industry’s use of lithium soap thickeners continued to decline in 2023 both worldwide and in North America, as producers looked for ways ...

The portion of greases made with lithium thickeners continued to decline in Europe in 2023, according to the latest survey by the National Lubricating ...

Standard Lithium Ltd. announced a partnership with international energy major Equinor to develop two lithium extraction projects in east Texas and wes ...

Lithium greases are under pressure from a run-up in lithium prices and from calls for the European Union to classify the mineral as hazardous, an indu ...

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

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

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

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

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

Germany’s GEA announced today that it will supply equipment toward expansion of Albemarle’s lithium hydroxide processing plant in Western Australi ...

Citing a need to find alternatives to increasingly expensive lithium, Lubrizol Corp. last week opened a grease laboratory outside Mumbai to develop fo ...

Leaders of Mexico, the United States and Canada all have called for private businesses from the latter two companies to participate in the former’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese lubricant marketer Lopal Technology Co. said recently that it is accelerating its previously stated strategy of growing a business to supply l ...

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 ...