BRB International plans a 4.5-hectare (11.2-acre) expansion at its headquarters location in the Netherlands, where it will build a new oil additives p ...

Steve Swedbergs Automotive column examines the diverging technical demands of gasoline and diesel engine oils.

German motor oil and aftermarket additive manufacturer Liqui Moly will invest nearly 20 million (U.S. $27.4 million) in development and production by ...

Lubricants in engines burning biogas are more stressed than oils in engines running on natural gas. The additional stress is caused by contaminants su ...

Chevron Oronite will soon be making more dispersants and detergents at its manufacturing plant in Gonfreville, France. A project to increase dispersa ...

Additive manufacturer Vanderbilt Chemicals will move chemical production from its Bethel, Conn., location to its newly upgraded plant in Murray, Ky., ...

Government-owned Oman Oil Co. acquired chemical manufacturer Oxea from private equity firm Advent International. Terms were not disclosed. Bloomberg ...

Oxea plans to increase prices on several chemicals used in producing lubricants, and Chemturas Petroleum Additives business announced upcoming price h ...

Chemturas Petroleum Additives business last week announced upcoming price increases for its natural fatty acid based lubricants and several antioxidan ...

Evonik Oil Additives will expand its Singapore oil additives plant, with completion scheduled for early 2015, in response to Asia driving above-averag ...

Lubrizol yesterday announced the opening of its additives manufacturing facility in Zhuhai Gaolan Port Economic Zone in southern China. The plant in ...

The U.S. metalworking fluids industry is waiting to learn how the United States will regulate medium- and long-chain chlorinated paraffins. Chlorinat ...

Seeing an opening for a second U.S.-based supplier of chlorinated paraffins, Qualice LLC recently launched operations in North Carolina. Charles R ...

Additives manufacturer Chevron Oronite last week said it is achieving milestones in four major capital projects – two in Singapore and two in Fr ...

Desmond King will become president of lubricant additives manufacturer Chevron Oronite Sept. 1, following the Aug. 31 retirement of Ron Kiskis after 1 ...

A Freedonia Group study forecasts U.S. demand for lubricant additives to grow 4.3 percent annually to nearly $3.9 billion in 2017. That compares to a ...

Rosnefts Novokuibyshevsk oils and additives plant recently started producing marine lubes under BPs Castrol brand for the Russian market. Under the a ...

Additives maker Infineum signed a lease agreement for a three-story building for its proposed new business and technology center in China, continuing ...

Lonza will shut down its biocide plant in Swords, Ireland, in June as part of a corporate cost-cutting effort, the company announced Thursday in its f ...

Gulf Oil will begin producing greases and lubricants at its Ras Al-Khaimah plant in the United Arab Emirates tomorrow. The operation is slated to prod ...