Aceto sold its performance chemicals business, which supplies lubricant additives, to New York investment firm New Mountain Capitals affiliate NMC Atl ...

Saudi Aramco reached an agreement last week to buy a 70 percent stake in Sabic, one of the worlds largest chemical companies.

Hong Kongs Securities and Futures Commission fined UBS, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch this month for inadequate due diligence in the 2014 initial p ...

Indian grease manufacturers, like their counterparts in other countries, have for the past couple years bemoaned sharp increases in the costs of lithi ...

Electric vehicle battery makers domination of global lithium supplies leaves Indian grease makers vulnerable to shortages. One Hungarian grease manufa ...

Trevor Gauntlett celebrates the International Year of the Periodic Table.

Lanxess completed a 15 percent expansion to its global production capacity of corrosion inhibition additives, which are used in a number of products - ...

Ongoing research examines how tiny polymer beads can produce big performance benefits throughout a lubricants service life.

The search for an elusive additive that promises extreme pressure, antiwear and friction reduction in either water or oil may be over.

Afton Chemical posted higher operating profit for its fourth quarter and a decline in its full-year operating profit, and Valvoline reported a decreas ...

Polyisobutylene demand in Asia-Pacific currently lags behind North America and Europe, but is expected to take a big leap forward in the next decade, ...

BASF increased lubricant antioxidant capacity at its Puebla, Mexico, site to keep up with growing demand for additives that lengthen the life of lubri ...

Oxea released additional details yesterday about its previously discussed plan to increase production capacity of carboxylic acids, which are used for ...

Shepherd Chemical Co., a producer of metal-based lubricant additives, announced a multi-million dollar expansion that could double capacity at its Mir ...

Bio-derived base stocks arent the only way to go green. Researchers are upping the environmental ante with additives, too.

A small, Colorado-based blender has high-performance biobased lubes in its sights. The ammo? Colloidal dispersion.

Feiya Chemical Co. has opened a factory in Chinas Jiangsu province to produce lubricant antioxidants on behalf of BASF. The plant was built under a te ...

South Korea's new Act on Safety Control of Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides regulation took effect Jan. 1. Industry sources disagree about whet ...

Oxea lifted the force majeure declaration for products from its plant in Oberhausen, Germany, where production units are running at normal capacity ag ...

The grease industrys use of calcium thickeners is on the rise, spurred by a search for alternatives to increasingly expensive lithium and performance ...