Malaysian oleochemicals company IOI Group agreed last week to purchase Germanys Cremer Oleo GmbH for 89.4 million (U.S. $101.3 million).

ExxonMobil and Tata Motors launched a range of co-branded lubricants offered for commercial vehicles.

Russian Gazpromneft Lubricants sealed a factory-fill agreement with Kazakh car and machinery maker Agromash Holding. Under the deal, Gazprom is signif ...

Two competitors have filed objections to Z Energys planned takeover of Chevron New Zealand, which sells Caltex branded fuels and lubricants.

Shell has agreed to sell its 75 percent stake in Tongyi Lubricants to United States-based equity firm The Carlyle Group and Tongyis founder and joint ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. acquired Spanish industrial lubes and grease company Verkol last week for $32.4 million. Quaker, of Conshohocken, Pa., said that ...

Fuchs Petrolub acquired Sweden-based Statoil Fuel & Retail Lubricants AB for an undisclosed amount. SFR Lubricants is part of Couche-Tard Luxembou ...

Japanese petroleum major Idemitsu Kosan will purchase Royal Dutch Shells 33.2 percent stake in Showa Shell Sekiyu KK with an aim of merging with SSSKK ...

SK Innovation on Thursday retracted its application to conduct an initial public stock offering for its base oil and lubricants subsidiary, SK Lubrica ...

United Arab Emirates-based Gulf Petrochem expanded into East Africa with its recent acquisition of Essar Petroleum East Africa Ltd., which was renamed ...

Illinois-based chemical distributor Univar Inc. announced last week that it acquired the assets of oleochemical manufacturer and distributor Chemical ...

Japanese chemical producer Koei Chemical Co. has sold its pentaerythritol, di-pentaerythritol and sodium formate businesses to Swedens Perstorp for an ...

The China Securities Regulatory Commission approved an initial public offering application from Qingdao, Shandong province-based lubricant producer Co ...

Michigan-based Vesco Oil Corp., one of the largest distributors in the United States of ExxonMobil and Valvoline-branded lubricants, acquired Ohio dis ...

Specialty chemicals supplier Soltex announced yesterday the purchase of Petroleum Chemicals, an acquisition made to help Soltex expand into the lubric ...

Royal Dutch Shell is narrowing the number of bidders for its majority stake in Shell Tongyi (Beijing) Petroleum, part of its lubricant business in Chi ...

GP Petroleums Ltd. tied up with Repsol to produce and supply the Spanish oil majors lubricants in India.

DALLAS – Angus Chemical Co., which Dow Chemical divested on Feb. 3, is preparing to launch a new extended-life, multifunctional amino alcohol fo ...

Koda Distribution Group recently acquired the assets of metalworking and industrial fluids distributor Colonial Specialty Chemicals and plans to merge ...

Chevron has sold its New Zealand Caltex gasoline service-station network and lubricants interests to Z Energy, the company born out of Shell's NZ fuel ...