ExxonMobil entered a joint development agreement with biobased base stock manufacturer BioAccelergy to commercially scale the latter’s products, the ...

ExxonMobil’s entry into the linear alpha olefin market has been delayed as a large expansion of the company’s Baytown, Texas, petrochemical comple ...

Leave No Trace   By now you’ve probably heard of the push for carbon neutrality. It’s gone from a buzz term to the focus of tangible busin ...

ExxonMobil Synthetics today announced plans to expand the production capacity of its metallocene high viscosity polyalphaolefin plant in Baytown, Texa ...

A Time of Transition   The past 18 months have not been particularly wonderful for the active industries involved in keeping global economies ...

Entering an important phase for greener, more sustainable lubricants Gone are the days when biobased lubricants were considered niche products and ...

The ever-growing emphasis on sustainability is pushing the lubricants industry to develop products that help achieve carbon neutrality. In the base st ...

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 ...