Additives

A French Senate inquiry last week blasted local and regional governments’ response to the September 2019 blaze at a Lubrizol lubricant additive fact ...

Places’n’Faces

June 2, 2020

U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Nynas Nynas AB announced last month that Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. sold a 35 percent stake in the company, resulting ...

Spotlight on Grease

June 2, 2020

The grease industry has been under pressure to develop formulations that keep pace with the increased performance and efficiency requirements of moder ...

Polymers can improve water resistance, thickener yield and tackiness in grease formulations, but their long molecular structure made formulators quest ...

Robots Need Lubes, Too

June 2, 2020

Industrial robots have multiple joints, similar to human elbows and knees. Unlike humans, regular greasing is all they need to avoid wear and stay in ...

Altivia Oxide Chemicals LLC acquired KMCO and its associated chemical ethoxylation manufacturing assets in Crosby, Texas, last week out of Chapter 7 b ...

Once the traumas of lost production and lost customers due to Covid-19 are over, metalworking fluid formulators will have to resume their attempts to ...

All vehicles require a range of lubricants, greases, coolants and fluids, and EVs are no exception. Existing base stock technology may satisfy these n ...

Shipments of castor oil derivatives are flowing from India once again, easing availability of popular grease additives after supplies were constrained ...

Product News

April 29, 2020

Lube’n’Go Citgo Petroleum Corp. has developed the Mystik GoBox for the agricultural sector. The packaging system uses biodegradable boxes and o ...

Afton Chemical posted increases in both operating profit and sales for the quarter ending March 31, compared to a year earlier.

Clearing the Air

April 27, 2020

Air is an enemy of lubricants. One of a formulator’s major challenges is keeping out the entrained air caused by sliding, pumping and spinning of th ...

Marketing Matters

April 27, 2020

Emeka Umejei looks at African grease trends.

The American Chemistry Council on Monday invoked an emergency protocol meant to give companies flexibility to cope with unavailability of automotive l ...

Three lubricant industry associations in the United States petitioned India’s government last week to approve the export of castor oil derivatives s ...

Product development can be tedious and taxing, but a multifactor testing method helps manage the guesswork and get to the right formulation faster.

Metalworking processes are evolving, and the fluids used to lubricate them must keep pace. One company highlights how the versatility of sulfur carrie ...

Tianhe Chemicals Group is scheduled to appear before a Hong Kong Stock Exchange disciplinary board today to appeal its delisting after the company’s ...

Lubricant additive supplier IPAC said last week that it has won two arbitration decisions against a former distributor and a former employee for misap ...

Ingevity Corp. announced Feb. 20 that its board of directors and D. Michael Wilson agreed he would resign as president, CEO and a director, effective ...