Chinas state-owned Shanxi Luan Mining Group is preparing to open a plant in Shanxi province with capacity to make 350,000 metric tons per year of coal ...

Private investment firm SK Capital Partners agreed to acquire Schenectady, New York-based SI Group, a global developer and manufacturer of performance ...

Modern grease formulation is a balancing act of performance, service life and energy efficiency. Two companies give insight into the drivers of innova ...

Gone are the frigid mornings of yore when engine oils were as sluggish as shivering drivers. But can the latest low-viscosity oils flow in winter with ...

New oils and maintenance techniques may finally scrub the threat of varnish from the face industrial equipment.

Low-speed pre-ignition can knock down even the fittest of modern engines. Research says calcium based additives may be responsible for the roughhousin ...

Chinese additives manufacturer Jinzhou Kangtai published an updated prospectus in March, hoping to gain approval from Chinas securities regulatory com ...

Against a backdrop of economic hardship, increased awareness of car maintenance and a crackdown on fake oils, the country has seen growth in the sale ...

DIC Corp. began expanding its capacity to produce extreme pressure additives for metalworking fluids at its plant in Kashima, Japan. The company did n ...

Studies by Spain on 2-ethylhexanoic acid - a carboxylic acid used to make synthetic esters - found no adverse effects concerning reproduction at the h ...

German specialty chemicals producer Evonik announced last month that it is considering the sale of its methacrylates business. The company advised, th ...

Tianhe Chemicals Group reported yesterday that the gross profit for its lubricant additives segment decreased 7.2 percent in 2017 due to a drop in sal ...

Steve Swedberg traces modern additive chemistry back to the first Arab oil embargo.

Decades of dramatic changes in turbochargers and engine oils have overwhelmed the TEOST 33C bench test. Savants update will revive this important tool ...

Italmatch Chemicals Group announced last week that it has formed a lubricant additives business unit in the wake of Decembers acquisition of Elco Corp ...

Italmatch Chemicals Group formed a lubricant additives business unit in the wake of Decembers acquisition of Elco Corp. and parent company Detrex. Ita ...

As ambitions smolder among lube suppliers in India, inorganic routes may be the only option for achieving scale rapidly, meaning more foreign and dome ...

The global lubricant industrys consumption of esters is faster than the overall industry. One market that can slake this almost unquenchable thirst is ...

Afton Chemical had decreased profits last year, despite enjoying a strong fourth quarter, and Valvoline reported a decrease in operating income but an ...

Lubricant additive volume demand in the United States declined 0.3 percent between 2016 and 2017 to 2.1 billion pounds, according to the American Chem ...