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The lubricants industry is constantly looking for sustainable replacements for traditional mineral oils. How does soybea ...
The base stocks used to formulate lubricants for electric vehicles are vital to performance. What are the best options?
ExxonMobil entered a joint development agreement with biobased base stock manufacturer BioAccelergy to commercially scal ...
ExxonMobil’s entry into the linear alpha olefin market has been delayed as a large expansion of the company’s Baytow ...
Leave No Trace By now you’ve probably heard of the push for carbon neutrality. It’s gone from a buzz term ...
ExxonMobil Synthetics today announced plans to expand the production capacity of its metallocene high viscosity polyalph ...
A Time of Transition The past 18 months have not been particularly wonderful for the active industries involve ...
Entering an important phase for greener, more sustainable lubricants Gone are the days when biobased lubricants were ...
The ever-growing emphasis on sustainability is pushing the lubricants industry to develop products that help achieve car ...
India implemented a temporary cut in the duty charged on palm oil imports, part of an effort to offset a sharp run-up in ...
Base Oil Report: Trends As governments worldwide pass stricter standards to combat carbon dioxide emissions, lubrican ...
A finished lubricant blending facility was installed late last year at the site of Russia’s only polyalphaolefin plant ...
Polyalphaolefins are expensive, available from just a handful of producers and increasingly being replaced in automotive ...
Is the ICE Decline an Upturn for Silicones? Unfamiliar to many in the industry, silicone base stocks have limited app ...
Ineos declared force majeure last month on supply of low-viscosity polyalphaolefins after an unexpected disruption to fe ...
PT Pertamina Lubricants and two other Indonesian companies have formed a joint venture aimed at developing catalysts tha ...
PetroChina last month opened a pilot plant producing low-viscosity polyalphaolefin in Lanzhou, China, using technology d ...
