Additive Components

Crompton Corp. announced that it is expanding capacity to produce alkylated diphenylamine antioxidants at its factory in Latina, Italy. The company, b ...

OM Group Inc. has sold its aluminum complex grease thickening business and related activities, 10 months after acquiring them from Rhodia. The aluminu ...

Triazine and other formaldehyde-releasing biocides have been banned from the formulas of metalworking fluids at DaimlerChrysler because of a possible ...

Global grease production fell nearly 6 percent from 2000 to 2001, totaling just over 1.5 billion pounds last year, according to the National Lubricati ...

Continuing to build its defoamer business by acquisition, The Lubrizol Corp. announced last week that it has bought Kabo Unlimited Inc. The acquisitio ...

New Sulfonates Plant Opens

January 9, 2002

Offering to relieve tight demand for an important ingredient in metalworking fluids and other lubricants, chemical broker Kimes Trading International ...

OMG Buys Rhodia Division

December 27, 2001

Rhodia announced Friday that it sold its metal organics division, including its grease thickening business, to metal-based specialty chemical manufact ...