Mergers & Acquisitions

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

Bahrain Lube Base Oil Co. in Sitra, Bahrain, has been churning out API Group III base stocks since 2011. It’s clear who operates the plant and also ...

U.S. Lubricants purchased a lube blending facility in Baltimore, Maryland, from BP, the company announced this week. U.S. Lubricants, which is based i ...

Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has acquired Chemsolv Inc., a Virginia-based regional distributor of commodity and specialty chemicals, including ...

Biosynthetic Technologies, a producer of biobased synthetic compounds used in base oils, lubricants and additives, acquired castor oil and castor oil ...

Investment firm SK Capital has completed its purchase of a controlling stake in Seqens, a French producer of chemicals for pharmaceuticals, as well as ...

Swedish company VBG Group acquired all shares of U.S.-based Carlyle Johnson Machine Co. for $16.5 million. Carlyle Johnson designs and manufactures co ...

Investment Firms Swap RelaDyne

December 29, 2021

Private equity firm American Industrial Partners announced last week that it has acquired RelaDyne, one of the leaders of the consolidation trend in N ...

Croda Selling Unit to Cargill

December 28, 2021

Agricultural products company Cargill Inc. has agreed to buy most of Croda International Plc’s Performance Technologies and Industrial Chemicals uni ...

An investment firm representing the main stockholders of United Global Ltd. announced on Dec. 10 an unconditional cash offer to acquire the rest of th ...

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. announced yesterday the completion of its $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern, one of the largest transporte ...

French building materials company Saint-Gobain announced on Monday the acquisition of construction chemicals company GCP Applied Technologies, whose p ...

A company attempting to acquire most of Kangtai Lubricant Additive Co. has scaled back the size of an additive factory now under construction in order ...

Vitol Announces Buyout of Vivo

November 30, 2021

Africa fuels and lubricants supplier Vivo Energy agreed last week to a $2.3 billion buyout by Netherlands-based energy trader and marketer Vitol Group ...

Korla Nears Purchase of Tongyi

November 26, 2021

Xinjiang Korla Fragrant Pear Co.’s board of supervisors voted unanimously Nov. 24 to approve the company’s acquisition of Tongyi Petroleum Chemica ...

Transformer oil recycler Hydrodec and its Ohio rerefinery were acquired by United Kingdom-based Slicker Recycling Ltd., which highlighted in its Nov. ...

Troy to Merge with Arxada

November 10, 2021

Metalworking fluid biocides producer Troy and Arxada, a lubricants and biocides manufacturer, will merge their businesses, expanding the manufacturing ...

Lubricants and biocides manufacturer Arxada and Troy, a producer of metalworking fluid biocides, will merge their businesses, expanding the manufactur ...

Lubricants distributor Telko Ltd. will acquire fellow distributor Mentum AS, the company announced last week. Based in Tallinn, Estonia, but with oper ...