Afton Chemical and Quaker Chemical each reported increases in sales and operating profit for the first quarter, compared to the year-ago quarter. New ...

Irans Pars Oil is preparing to open a second grease plant at its refinery near Tehran. Officials said the new plant, which will have capacity of 2,000 ...

Capital expenditures at Lubrizol Additives will likely top $300 million this year and $250 million in 2013, the company’s president told a recen ...

Lubrizols acquisition of grease manufacturer Chemtool remains under Federal Trade Commission review, and Lubrizol expects to close on the deal once th ...

Chevron Oronite named Colin Parfitt vice president of sales and marketing effective April 1, succeeding Andy Tugendhat, who will retire after more tha ...

Dover Chemical will pay $1.4 million in civil penalties for unauthorized manufacture of chlorinated paraffins at facilities in Dover, Ohio, and Hammon ...

Infineum yesterday said it will begin construction of a new salicylate manufacturing facility at its Jurong Island, Singapore, site in the first quart ...

Afton Chemical reported an increase in revenue and a decline in operating profit for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2011, compared to the year-earlier pe ...

Newly formed P2 Science is using technology licensed from Yale University to develop and manufacture a new class of surfactants that has potential use ...

Health Canada earlier this month updated its human health assessment for long-chain chlorinated paraffins to say they are not considered toxic to huma ...

Croda Inc. opened a facility to make esters for lubricants at its Atlas Point manufacturing site in Delaware. The project will increase the companys U ...

Lonza will acquire 100 percent of Arch Chemicals shares for $47.20 per share in a transaction valued at $1.4 billion. Both Basel, Switzerland-based L ...

PARIS – Following a major reorganization, the European REACH Grease Thickeners Consortium is on target to submit its REACH dossier for the most ...

After shrinking almost 10 percent in 2009, how did global lubricating grease production fare in 2010? That’s what the National Lubricating Greas ...

Rhone Capital will sell a controlling interest in Arizona Chemical to private equity firm American Securities. Terms of the agreement have not been di ...

Do you know of or work at a machine shop or metalworking facility where biocides are used to control harmful microbes or fungus in the machining fluid ...

Lube oil additives marketer Petroleum Chemicals has moved to a larger facility in Sacramento, Calif., to accommodate business and staff expansions. P ...

Henkel last week informed the 89 employees at Acheson Colloids Port Huron, Mich., plant that the site will close at the end of 2010, due to severe und ...

A third-party independent laboratory began testing motor oil samples from Shell installers in Detroit this month, part of a Shell Lubricants campaign ...

Total reported grease production worldwide reached 2.25 billion pounds (1 billion kilograms) in 2008, and was 2.3 billion pounds in 2007, according to ...