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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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� ...

Specialty chemical supplier Albemarle Corp. announced yesterday that it has agreed to purchase Guangxi Tianyuan New Energy Materials Co., a start-up t ...

A new report by Human Rights Watch urges carmakers to do more to reduce impacts on communities and the environment from their aluminum supply chains.

Axel Christiernsson Group announced on July 15 that it is proceeding with an additional expansion and improvement plan across its three grease plants ...

Local firefighting officials said last week that a June 14 blaze that heavily damaged a Chemtool grease plant in Rockton, Illinois, was triggered by a ...

Lubrizol and its Chemtool subsidiary face lawsuits from residents alleging major impacts on their properties from the devastating fire that started on ...

Lubricating grease production in Europe fell 7% in 2020, according to the latest survey by the United States-based National Lubricating Grease Institu ...

Lithium greases made a small comeback in 2020 in Asia’s two largest grease markets, according to the latest survey by the United States-based Nation ...