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Malaysia’s Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad announced Tuesday it will acquire Sweden-based specialty chemicals company Perstorp Holding AB for €2.3 ...

Moove, Brazil-based Cosan’s lubricants arm, reported higher profits and revenue despite lower sales volume in the first quarter. The São Paulo-base ...

The new president of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers said such professional organizations can play meaningful roles in helping i ...

Oil giant Shell signed an agreement to sell its retail and lubricant businesses in Russia to privately owned Lukoil, the largest lubricant marketer an ...

GS Caltex’s base oil and lubricant business reported lower profit on higher sales, while Castrol India reported increases in net profit and revenue ...

Increased expenses caused Valvoline Inc.’s operating income to dip despite a 26% jump in sales revenues for the three months ended March 31, but net ...

Shell is negotiating with an unidentified party to sell its lubricant blending plant in Torzhok, Russia, along with its network of fuel stations in th ...

S-Oil reported a slight increase in profits for its base oil and lubricants business for the quarter ending March 31, while fellow South Korean base o ...

Afton Chemical parent company NewMarket Corp. reported an 8% drop in operating profit for its petroleum additives business, stating that cost increase ...

Brazilian energy company Raizen said last week that it completed its acquisition of Shell’s lubricant business in Brazil, which it agreed to purchas ...

German lubricant maker Fuchs Petrolub SE posted a first-quarter 6% decline in earnings after tax and a 16% increase in sales, citing several factors f ...

Global executive search firm ABN Resource discusses what social sustainability is and how it can be applied to the lubricants industry.

Bio-based and sustainable lubricants are not always one and the same. What are the nuanced differences between them?

The American Petroleum Institute’s newly formed sustainability task force is working to create a recommended practice document on lubricant life cyc ...

Jack Goodhue gives pointers on how business leaders can encourage employees to think outside the usual paradigm.

SK Lubricants posted a 54% year-to-year increase in operating profit for the quarter ended March 31, according to results the company filed today. The ...

German chemicals distributor Oqema acquired the Orosolv Group, a French distributor of lubricants and other products, to expand and develop its busine ...

Sales Climb for Moresco

April 22, 2022

Japanese specialty lubricant maker Moresco Corp. reported higher sales for its fiscal year that ended in February for specialty lubricants, driven by ...

Profit Up for WD-40

April 20, 2022

WD-40 Co. reported net income of $19.5 million for its second quarter ending Feb. 28, a 13% increase compared to the same quarter last year.

Chinese companies Jiangsu Lopal Tech Co. and Richful Lube Additive Co. each reported increases in profits for the fourth quarter of 2021 and for the f ...