Additives

Additives maker Infineum will restructure its corporate leadership team effective April 1, moving newly appointed sales and supply executive vice pres ...

The Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation into Lubrizols acquisition of Rockton, Ill.-based grease manufacturer Chemtool, clearing the ...

Arizona Chemical broke ground on a $10 million, 27,000 square foot science and technology center in Georgia that will be the new home for its U.S. res ...

Given the lubricants industry’s limited resources, it’s time to focus attention and resources where they add value – and not on need ...

Z Tech v. Lubrizol Dismissed

February 13, 2013

A Federal judge in Michigan dismissed Z Technologies antitrust lawsuit against Lubrizol last week, concluding the four-year statute of limitations app ...

Base Oil Traders Sling Barbs

February 13, 2013

Shamrock Shipping and Trading has warned that any deals concluded by a former employee and his current employer, Feedco, may be challenged in court. I ...

Rouen Is Back in Business

February 13, 2013

French authorities gave Lubrizol the go-ahead last week to resume operations at its Rouen, France, additive plant, following a late January release of ...

A leak at Lubrizols Rouen, France, plant 120 kilometers (75 miles) northwest of Paris sent a cloud of harmless gas smelling of sweat and rotten eggs i ...

Additive maker R.T. Vanderbilt Co. yesterday announced a new organization structure, and that it plans to complete the $30 million expansion of its Mu ...

Ineos Chlor Americas ended importation of short-chained chlorinated paraffins into the United States and agreed to pay a $175,000 civil penalty under ...

Oxea has expanded production capacity for carboxylic acids, and it will increase hydrogenation capacity to offer a broader range of higher alcohols. T ...

Chemical Prices Rise

August 15, 2012

Rhein Chemie increased prices on lubricant oil additives, Albemarle boosted prices for antioxidants used in lubricants, and Oxea raised prices on solv ...

Afton Chemical plans to invest more than $100 million to construct a new chemical additive manufacturing facility on Jurong Island, Singapore, that wi ...

The worlds lubricating grease manufacturers created nearly 2.4 billion pounds of the stuff during 2011, a record-high volume, according to data releas ...

Brenntag Picks Petrolube

June 13, 2012

Brenntag signed an agreement to acquire Milan, Italy-based Petrolube, which distributes Infineums specialty lubricant and fuel additives. According t ...

Z Technologies filed an antitrust suit against Lubrizol, alleging its acquisition of Lockharts wax oxidate business in 2007 resulted in a monopoly and ...

Evonik Oil Additives plans to build a new plant in the Asia-Pacific region to almost double current lubricant additives capacity there by 2015. The c ...

A vapor release incident at Dover Chemicals plant in Dover, Ohio, on Monday led to a temporary evacuation of the facility. Caused by a reactor overhea ...

Regulatory pressures continue to push metalworking fluid formulators to find alternative chemistries, even in the absence of hard data to back up rest ...

Infineum announced plans to build a new lubricant additive manufacturing complex in China, subject to approval by its Board of Directors. The size of ...