India implemented a temporary cut in the duty charged on palm oil imports, part of an effort to offset a sharp run-up in prices over the past year. An ...

Base Oil Report: Trends As governments worldwide pass stricter standards to combat carbon dioxide emissions, lubricant formulators have been tasked ...

Lubes'n'Greases talked to Mark Miller, the CEO of Biosynthetic Technologies, about the sustainability of his company’s products and why he thinks su ...

A finished lubricant blending facility was installed late last year at the site of Russia’s only polyalphaolefin plant and promptly leased to Taif L ...

Polyalphaolefins are expensive, available from just a handful of producers and increasingly being replaced in automotive lubricants by alternatives su ...

Is the ICE Decline an Upturn for Silicones? Unfamiliar to many in the industry, silicone base stocks have limited application in lubricants. The ri ...

Ineos declared force majeure last month on supply of low-viscosity polyalphaolefins after an unexpected disruption to feedstock supply involving facil ...

PT Pertamina Lubricants and two other Indonesian companies have formed a joint venture aimed at developing catalysts that can be used in the processin ...

PetroChina last month opened a pilot plant producing low-viscosity polyalphaolefin in Lanzhou, China, using technology developed by Chinese researcher ...

Performance without Compromise Esters have become almost synonymous with high-performance formulations used in demanding environments where other b ...

PAOs, Past and Present Polyalphaolefins will be in the spotlight at the next National Inventors Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Margaret Wu, a che ...

BASF said Monday that it will almost double synthetic ester base stocks production capacity at its Jinshan, China, site in response to rising demand f ...

There are a number of potential avenues of development and challenges for electric vehicle lubricant formulators, but whatever path they take, compreh ...

While global lubricant demand drags, says Caitlin Jacobs, the odds are still looking good for renewable and biodegradable base stocks.

Russian specialty chemical producer Vyazemsky Plant for Synthetic Products expanded its capacity to manufacture fatty acid esters, a feedstock for a v ...

Chevron and Novvi LLC announced the first production of fully renewable base oil from Novvi’s Deer Park facility in Houston, Texas.

Rosneft’s domestic lubricant sales grew almost 10% to 712,000 tons in 2019, up from 650,000 tons the year before as expanded distribution channels p ...

It was long thought that raw materials for oil-miscible PAGs were too rare or too expensive to create a widely used product. With two new players join ...

There's no regulatory requirement for MWFs that meet Environmentally Acceptable Lubricant standards, but formulating greener fluids falls in line with ...

While blenders converting their production lines for hand sanitizer grab headlines, companies that make greases for life-saving ventilators are quietl ...