Mergers & Acquisitions

A fruit grower in China’s Xinjiang province announced this month that it has reached a tentative agreement to acquire Tongyi Petroleum Chemical Co., ...

Lehvoss Group, a producer and distributor of raw materials for lubricant additives and base oils based in Hamburg, Germany, acquired French lubricant ...

A subsidiary of specialty chemicals distributor Azelis will acquire 90% of the shares of South Africa-based lubricants, lubricant additives and base o ...

Vertex Energy shareholders voted in favor of its proposed sale of used motor oil collection and recycling assets – including two rerefineries – to ...

Chemicals producer Verdant Specialty Solutions acquired fellow producer Baze Chemical this week, further expanding its surfactant manufacturing capaci ...

Neste has agreed to sell its API Group III business to Chevron, the companies announced Monday, a deal that expands Chevron’s presence in the growin ...

Specialty chemical supplier Albemarle Corp. announced yesterday that it has agreed to purchase Guangxi Tianyuan New Energy Materials Co., a start-up t ...

DL Chemical to Acquire Kraton

September 29, 2021

South Korean-based DL Chemical Co. Ltd. will acquire Houston-based Kraton Corp. for $2.5 billion in cash under a definitive merger agreement announced ...

Cosmetics chemical supplier Rianlon obtained an okay from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange this week for its proposed acquisition of a majority stake in Ka ...

Get Spiffy Buys Pit Crew

September 15, 2021

North Carolina-based Get Spiffy, an on-demand car care services company, acquired Pit Crew, which provides mobile oil changes, tire and other automoti ...

SKF announced Sept. 1 that it completed the acquisition of Efolex AB, a manufacturer of Europafilter-branded industrial lubrication and oil filtration ...

Indorama Ventures Public Co., a global chemicals producer based in Thailand, agreed to acquire Brazil-based Oxiteno S.A. Industria e Comercio for $1.3 ...

Infineum has signed a contract to acquire ISCA UK’s emulsifiers business unit in a deal securing the Iscamul emulsifier brand and formulation expert ...

The joint venture owners of esters supplier Emery Oleochemicals have agreed to sell the Asia-Pacific portion of that business to a new joint venture b ...

HollyFrontier announced plans yesterday to acquire Sinclair Oil Corp. and Sinclair Transportation Co. in a transaction valued at $1.8 billion, creatin ...

Austria-based Alpla Group, a global plastic packaging and recycling specialist, acquired last month the lubricants division of South African packaging ...

Aerosol manufacturer PLZ Aeroscience has agreed to purchase Champion Brands LLC, an independent producer of automotive and industrial lubricants and r ...

Chemicals producer Verdant Specialty Solutions acquired surfactants manufacturer DeForest Enterprises last week, the company announced. The acquisitio ...

Two Is Better Than One

July 3, 2021

In the world of business, change is both fast and inevitable, and no group is more aware of that than the lubricants industry. But how specifically ha ...

Clean Harbors will pay $140 million in cash to acquire Vertex Energy’s Heartland base oil rerefinery in Ohio, a second rerefinery in Louisiana and i ...