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 ...

The world’s main suppliers of lubricant additive packages have stopped supplying Russia, two industry consultants told Lube Report. Without their pr ...

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 ...

Of the countless headaches the lubricants industry has faced in the past few years, Tom Glenn says that allocation may be the most challenging.

Russian independent lubricant maker Cupper plans to build a lubricant blending plant in Dzershinsk, in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod oblast. The project ...

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 ...

Vertex Energy Inc. reported large increases in gross profit and revenues for its used motor oil collection and processing business, while Perimeter So ...

An arbitrator last month issued a final award exonerating a former executive of International Petroleum Products & Additives Co. of violating term ...

Evonik announced last week that it will exit its Performance Materials business unit, which supplies some intermediate chemicals used to make lubrican ...

A Kentucky town is still dealing with the fallout over a spill of “forever chemicals” three years after it was first self-reported by Shamrock Tec ...

Afton Chemical parent company NewMarket Corp. reported an 8% drop in operating profit for its petroleum additives business, stating that cost increase ...

An Illinois judge on Monday approved an order holding Lubrizol’s Chemtool Inc. responsible for cleaning up the site of its former grease and additiv ...

An expansion of the Nanjing, China, petrochemical joint venture between BASF and Sinopec will bring the site’s capacity for ethanolamine production ...

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

Chinese companies Jiangsu Lopal Tech Co. and Richful Lube Additive Co. each reported increases in profits for the fourth quarter of 2021 and for the f ...