Investments in energy infrastructure — from electric vehicle charging to expanded power grids — all present challenges for lubricants.

Valvoline Debuts Heavy-Duty Engine Oil With 100,000-Mile Drain Approval Valvoline Global Operations introduced Premium Blue One Solution Gen 2 heav ...

King Industries, Inc., a specialty chemicals manufacturer headquartered in Connecticut, U.S., has begun full operations at its newly constructed produ ...

Savita Oil Technologies commissioned phase two of its synthetic ester plant at Mahad in Maharashtra, the company said in a regulatory filing to the Bo ...

Sustainability has become a defining priority for the modern lubricants industry. As manufacturers and end-users seek solutions that reduce environmen ...

Synthetic base stocks, unlike mineral base oils in Groups I–III, are synthesized from molecules with identical structures rather than refined. This ...

LANXESS discusses the performance benefits of Calcium Sulfonate Complex (CSC) grease.

Chevron Phillips Chemical has finished expanding its low-viscosity polyalphaolefins production facility in Belgium, more than doubling annual capacit ...

The lubricants industry faces rising pressure to ensure machine reliability while meeting stringent environmental, health, and safety standards. With ...

How do synthetic base stocks help automotive lubricant formulators to meet ever-increasing standards? Pennzoil’s Sean Nguyen weighs in.

Swedish chemical company Perstorp last week announced it had bought OQ Chemicals’ Dutch esters manufacturing facility.

Germany-based OQ Chemicals announced it will increase prices for its range of carboxylic acids.

ChainCraft explains how it uses a non-GMO fermentation process to upcycle food waste into medium-chain fatty acids.

Norac Additives broke ground on a new esterification line at its production site in Helena, Arkansas, giving German parent company Peter Greven greate ...

Belgian oleo-chemicals company Oleon acquired a majority stake in A.Azevedo Óleos, a Brazilian oleo-chemical company based in Sao Paulo.

Fierce competition and weak demand are pushing small companies in China’s lube industry to dig deeper to find opportunities, said speakers at an ann ...

As China pushes to be a major player in global high-tech industries such as artificial intelligence, polyalphaolefin base stocks have more opportuniti ...

VBASE Oil Co. has designed and evaluated a new family of high-performance sustainable base stocks. How can they be used, and how do they differ from t ...

Data center density and accompanying energy consumption continue to rapidly grow, highlighting needs for more efficient power consumption and thermal ...