Esters

Spotlight on Esters

September 4, 2025

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

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.

OQ Chemicals today announced the restart of production at its German plants in Oberhausen and Marl after overcoming a recent disruption at a raw mater ...

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 ...

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive industry is impacting base oil deman ...

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive industry is impacting base oil deman ...

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive industry is impacting base oil deman ...

A Dutch startup may have discovered a new, more sustainable way to manufacture fatty acids using food waste as a feedstock.

India’s Savita Oil Technologies Ltd. commissioned a new synthetic ester manufacturing plant, citing opportunities in new product categories and the ...

The shift towards better quality lubricants has resulted in slower growth in demand for esters that are used in lubricants, such as polyol esters and ...

Shell Lubricants acquired two product lines from United Kingdom-based M&I Materials Ltd. – one for synthetic and ester-based transformer fluids ...

Tsuno Group, a Japanese chemical company, announced the launch of fatty acid esters made from used cooking oil. The lubricant industry’s use of est ...

Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing an expansion that included a r ...