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The base stocks used to formulate lubricants for electric vehicles are vital to performance. What are the best options?
As electric vehicle sales in Europe, North America and Asia accelerate, passenger car motor oil demand could decline rap ...
ExxonMobil’s entry into the linear alpha olefin market has been delayed as a large expansion of the company’s Baytow ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ineos declared force majeure last month on supply of low-viscosity polyalphaolefins after an unexpected disruption to fe ...
PetroChina last month opened a pilot plant producing low-viscosity polyalphaolefin in Lanzhou, China, using technology d ...
PAOs, Past and Present Polyalphaolefins will be in the spotlight at the next National Inventors Hall of Fame inductio ...
Rosneft’s domestic lubricant sales grew almost 10% to 712,000 tons in 2019, up from 650,000 tons the year before as ex ...
All vehicles require a range of lubricants, greases, coolants and fluids, and EVs are no exception. Existing base stock ...
Are the synthetic and naphthenic understudies to paraffinic base oils ready to steal the limelight?
Industry observers say a new linear alpha olefins unit that ExxonMobil expects to open in 2022 in Baytown, Texas, should ...
After 18 months of weak demand and dismal pricing in many segments, the market for alphaolefins is beginning to pick up, ...
