Additives

Evonik Ups Capacity in Asia

August 21, 2013

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 ...

CP Saga Continues

July 17, 2013

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 ...

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 ...