Mergers & Acquisitions

Private investment firm SK Capital Partners agreed to acquire Schenectady, New York-based SI Group, a global developer and manufacturer of performance ...

Publishers Letter

May 21, 2018

ExxonMobil will sell its refinery in Augusta, Italy, which includes a 730,000 metric-tons-per-year API Group I base oil plant. Global Guide to Base O ...

ExxonMobil has agreed to sell its Augusta, Italy, refinery - including its 730,000 metric tons per year API Group I base oil plant - to Algerias natio ...

ExxonMobil has agreed to purchase Indonesian lubricant blender PT Federal Karyatama, the companies announced this week, part of a plan to expand in th ...

SK Lubricants said last week that it was tabling a planned initial public offering for the third time after once again failing to achieve a desired va ...

Italmatch Chemicals Group is set to acquire Afton Chemicals metalworking fluid business, strengthening the Italian companys position in the industrial ...

RelaDyne closed on the acquisitions of Jack Backer Distributors Inc., Seaboard Neumann and Flamingo Oil - three of Floridas top lubricant distributors ...

Italmatch Chemicals Group is set to acquire Afton Chemicals metalworking fluid business, strengthening the Italian companys position in the industrial ...

Shell announced yesterday that it agreed to sell its downstream business in Argentina to Raizen, a 50-50 joint venture with Brazilian sugar producer C ...

GP Buys Stake in Mag

April 17, 2018

GP Global has acquired a majority stake in United Arab Emirates based Mag Lube in a deal that values the company at close to U.S. $75 million, GP anno ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. said on Monday that it acquired Biosynthetic Technologies, a startup that converts sustainable plant oils in ...

German specialty chemicals producer Evonik announced last month that it is considering the sale of its methacrylates business. The company advised, th ...

Axel Christiernsson announced Monday its acquisition of Royal Manufacturing, a deal that will triple Axels grease production capacity in the United St ...

Fuchs Petrolub SE acquired Dallas, Texas-based wireless sensor technology company Fluid Vision Technologies LLC for less than 1 million (U.S. $1.2 mil ...

Private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital acquired do-it-for-me oil change giant Heartland Automotive Services Inc. for $1.3 billion, the companies annou ...

Italmatch Chemicals completed its latest acquisition last week, announcing that it closed its purchase of Jiayou Chemical from Ecolab Inc.

Valvoline Inc. spent U.S. $16 million to acquire the remaining 30 percent share of its subsidiary in Thailand, making the Bangkok-based business a ful ...

Italmatch Chemicals Group formed a lubricant additives business unit in the wake of Decembers acquisition of Elco Corp. and parent company Detrex. Ita ...

The off-and-on plan for an initial public offering for SK Lubricants is on once again, and this time the companys parent wants to get it done quickly.

Mavis, Express Oil to Merge

February 28, 2018

Mavis Discount Tire agreed to merge with Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers, creating one of the largest independent chains of auto service providers ...