Ciba Specialty Chemicals announced Friday that it has entered a joint venture with a Chinese chemical maker to build an antioxidant factory outside Sh ...

Idaho General Mines Inc. announced Monday that it has filed a plan of operations with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, a key step in realizing its ...

Dow Chemical Co. said last week that its biocides business unit and its Angus Chemical Co. subsidiary will open five new regional customer application ...

The global market for biocides in metalworking fluids was valued at $105 million in 2005, a 40 percent jump from a decade earlier, a market research f ...

Specialty chemical maker International Specialty Products Inc. announced Jan. 20 that it has purchased Progiven, a French manufacturer of biocides. IS ...

Pine chemical supplier Arizona Chemical and six other businesses are targeted for possible sale or spin-off as part of a major restructuring to improv ...

Total reported grease production worldwide topped 1.8 billion pounds (822 million kilograms) in 2004,versus 1.69 billion pounds reported in 2003, acco ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland- While the United Kingdoms grease market has shriveled and the major oil companies have stopped making grease here, an industry ex ...

Prices for chemicals used by the lubricants industry continued to rise the past week. This time, the markups affected phenolic antioxidants sold by tw ...

Bulgarian lubricants maker Prista Oil significantly expanded grease production at its plant near the nations capital, the company told Lube Report. Th ...

Crompton Corp. says its plant in Elmira, Ontario, has resumed normal operations after repairing damage caused by a June 11 fire. The incident damaged ...

Crompton Corp. said last week that it has increased antioxidant capacity at its Elmira, Ontario, plant for the third time in less than two years. The ...

Royal Purple is tickled pink now that it has a corner – in the lubes market, at least – on the companys namesake color. Synthetic lubrican ...

Dover Chemical Corp. said it has nearly completed manufacturing integration of the Mayco and Keil Chemical businesses that it acquired in the past yea ...

Total reported worldwide grease production was 1.61 billion pounds (726 million kilograms) in 2002, unchanged from 2001, according to the latest Greas ...

The marketers of zMax automotive aftermarket lubricant additives have agreed to reimburse customers $1 million to settle a false advertising suit brou ...

The decision by Shell Oil Products US to close its base oil refinery in Martinez, Calif., is causing big disruptions for users of the plant’s so ...

Ethyl Corp. announced yesterday that it has sold its phenolic antioxidants business to former spinoff Albemarle Corp. The deal covers a family of anti ...

Bayer Chemicals has expanded its portfolio of biocides by acquiring the Tektamer product line from Ondeo Nalco Co., part of France’s Suez Group. ...

Polartech Ltd. announced last week that it has bought Crompton Corp.s Petromix soluble oil base product line to become the leading global supplier of ...