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May 22, 2014

Every person who supervises anyone should see the documentary film Buck, which received the U.S. Documentary Competition Award at the 2011 Sundance Fi ...

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May 22, 2014

JUNE 10-13. NORDTRIB 2014, 16th Nordic Symposium on Tribology Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, Aarhaus, Denmark E-mail: nordtrib2014@videre.ntnu.no W ...

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May 21, 2014

Oct. 10-13: Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association Annual Meeting, Loews Miami Beach Hotel, Miami, Fla. Author and humorist Dave Barry opens ...

Your Business

May 21, 2014

If youve ever heard the story of Sparkys Magic Piano, youll remember that all Sparky had to do was touch the keys of his magic piano and it played won ...

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May 21, 2014

A favorite phrase of the late actress Nina Foch, who taught Cinematic Arts at UCLA for over 40 years, was idiosyncratic contrapuntal juxtaposition. Wh ...

Coming from a company thats synonymous with bearings, Timkens Peter Drechsler sees lubricants and bearings as inseparable fields.

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May 21, 2014

The Neanderthals were not bad people. Recent research has found that they might have had larger brains than Homo sapiens, that they used basic tools a ...

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May 21, 2014

When I read the words experience trumps brilliance in a recent newspaper column by economist Thomas Sowell, my mind flashed back to the experience of ...

Clean Harbors rerefining groups third party revenues were down slightly in the first quarter compared to year earlier, while Cosan Lubrificantes net r ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Takreers flagship 600,000 tons per year API Group II/III base oils plant at Ruwais, U.A.E., is facing further ...

Fuchs Petrolub SE said last week that it has agreed to buy Lubritene and Lubrasa, sister specialty lubricant companies based in South Africa. Lubriten ...

Diesel engine oils are the largest category of automotive lubricants in India, and they are evolving quickly. A Gulf Oil official said recently that t ...

Castrol India Ltd.s profit dropped 19 percent in the first quarter of 2014. Net profit after taxes was Rs 100.2 crores (U.S. $17.2 million) for the th ...

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May 16, 2014

Thankfully, other diners were scarce that night at the small southern country club. Leaning across the table was Junior, a stylish young man about tow ...

It Pays Well to Sell

May 16, 2014

Part 2 of our exclusive Lubricant Industry Salary Survey shows where the fattest pay envelopes are stashed for sales and marketing execs.

Frost & Sullivan estimated the global industrial grease market will reach $1.8 billion revenue in 2019, up from $1.2 billion in 2012, with techno ...

Smaller engines with high efficiency rates and lower emissions are the latest industry trends that could pose big headaches for lubricant makers in th ...

1Q Tough on Calumet

May 14, 2014

Calumet Specialty Products Partners reported a $49.8 million loss in its first quarter, compared to $46 million in net income in the year earlier quar ...

A provincial court in India has approved Gulf Oil Corp.s decision to carve its lubricants operations into a separate business.

India is importing enormous volumes of base oils, and those imports are helping the market to raise the quality of its finished lubricants.