Europe's Waxes: Up to Snuff? Production is sputtering, even as the region's appetite for petroleum waxes grows. Will the next API Group I refinery clo ...

In a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, Calumet Shreveport Lubricant and Waxes has agreed to pay a $326,000 civil penalty and to spe ...

Petroleum wax made up just 73 percent of global wax supply in 2012, down from 90 percent in 2002, as API Group I capacity continues to slide, and synt ...

Base oil capacity in the United States totaled 218,000 barrels per day on Jan. 1, compared to 217,300 b/d a year earlier, according to American Fuel & ...

Paraffin wax, once a near-afterthought to base oil manufacturing, today is a valuable prop to API Group I refinery margins. Due to falling Group I cap ...

Z Technologies filed an antitrust suit against Lubrizol, alleging its acquisition of Lockharts wax oxidate business in 2007 resulted in a monopoly and ...

BASF commissioned a new oxidized polyethylene waxes manufacturing plant at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The low-density polyethylene wax that fo ...