Additives

Ingevity has reached an agreement to sell its crude tall oil refinery in North Charleston, South Carolina, the latest in a series of restructuring ste ...

A sample of financial reports showed the industry struggling for profitability in the first six months of 2025.

Richful inked a deal with BAISA to be its exclusive distributor for Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America.

Huntsman closed its maleic anhydride facility in Germany, prompted by losses and deteriorating market conditions.

The story of copper as an additive is a good one. The story of how a startup took that technology from the pages of Soviet-era tribology papers and tu ...

Global grease production entered its tenth year of decline in 2024, found the National Lubricating Grease Institute in its global grease production su ...

The trade war between China and the United States emphasized the need for a highly controlled domestic supply chain across industries for China.

Navigating the Future

April 30, 2025

Kline & Co.’s David Tsui explains how sustainability, resiliency and specification upgrades will impact the global lubricant additives industry.

Lithium thickeners rule the market. But why is lithium grease so popular, and might its popularity peter out as formulators develop other types of gre ...

Richful Lube Additive Co. and Farabi Petrochemicals have inked an agreement to build the first full-fledged lubricant additive factory in Saudi Arabia ...

Gero Thalemann explains how a new, patented polymer dissolving process can improve lubricant quality while increasing production efficiency.

Lubricant additives production capacity in China is soaring. The Strategy Works explains why.

Lubrizol examines the pros and cons of various types of extreme pressure additives in metalworking fluid formulations.

The discussion about sustainability has so far largely focussed on products’ immediate environmental impact. But there is a more pertinent and usefu ...

Lubrizol is cutting staff in France and shifting some production overseas, blaming overcapacity in the market, the rise of electric vehicles, the afte ...

Pilot Chemical Co. said last week that it will significantly expand its capacity to produce anionic surfactants at its specialty chemical factory in M ...

Matias de Tezanos and Boris Zhmud explain how waste plastic can be converted into value-added products, including lubricants.

Ingevity is considering divesting from certain performance chemicals industrial specialties product lines at its site in North Charleston, South Carol ...

Mitsubishi Cancels MMA Plant

January 15, 2025

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., part of the Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi, axed plans to open a 350,000-metric-tons-per-year methyl methacrylate pla ...

Growth in developing markets and supply chain disruptions have led to the emergence of a new generation of additives suppliers. Trevor Gauntlett expla ...