Business

STUTTGART, Germany-As General Motors vehicle sales climb to record volume worldwide, the behemoth automaker reminded automatic transmission fluid supp ...

Malaysias Petronas Dagangan Bhd. recently signed an eight-year, 51 million ringgit (U.S. $14 million) lubricants supply contract with Malaysian port o ...

S-Oil saw first quarter base oil revenue drop compared to the same period a year ago because of a slide in prices, but its operating income surged sig ...

Best Practices

April 28, 2015

Sara Lefcourt reveals how to improve your hiring success rate; and a road trip reinforces some management fundamentals for Jack Goodhue.

Mexicos lubricant demand grew about 2 percent in 2013, industry insiders say, and that plus market liberalization have been enough to attract increase ...

Russias largest lube producers increasingly are trumpeting the new government policy of import substitution, urging users to switch to locally made pr ...

STUTTGART, Germany – With API Group III base stocks proliferating worldwide, its important to distinguish each suppliers products from the pack, ...

BP, Caltex Undo Aussie JV

April 21, 2015

BP and Caltex last week dissolved Australasian Lubricant Manufacturing Co., a 15-year joint venture that makes about 50 percent of the nations lubrica ...

Asia-Pacific is thirstier for lubricants than any other region in the world, but tapping into it from the outside presents numerous challenges, an exe ...

The Asia-Pacific region accounts for around 70 percent of the global two-wheeler market, said an Infineum International Ltd. presenter in Stuttgart, G ...

Industry Calendar

April 17, 2015

MAY 13-15. 4th Tribology Conference, Serbiatrib 15 University of Belgrade, Serbia emiass@abv.bg www.serbiatrib.mfkg.rs/ 26-28. CIS Base Oils, Lubrican ...

WD-40 reported net income of $11.3 million for the quarter ending Feb. 28, up 10 percent from a year earlier, with net sales up 3 percent at $97.3 mil ...

UK Wax Maker Acquired

April 15, 2015

Hoganas AB, maker of powdered metals for the metallurgical industry, will acquire Wales, U.K.-based lubricants manufacturer Abril Industrial Waxes Ltd ...

Russian lubricant demand fell more than 10 percent to 1.5 million metric tons in 2014 due to sluggish industrial output and lower new car sales, a Mos ...

In the few short years since 2011, the Middle East has gone from being an importer of base oils to a major export center, especially of API Group III ...

Two high-level executives resigned from Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P.s general partner last month – Jennifer Straumins and Tim Barnha ...

Vivo Energy reached an agreement with a local investor, CH Group Ltd., to take an 8-percent equity stake in Vivos Ghanaian holdings in order to meet a ...

KMG Chemicals Inc. announced last week that it will acquire valve lubricant manufacturer Valves Inc. of Texas, known as Val-Tex, for $23.5 million by ...

Japans Kamei Corp. purchased Lee Huat Yap Kee Pte, of Singapore, March 27, an acquisition that gives it entry into the marine lubricant and base oils ...

Axel France SAS last week said its new industrial and food-grade grease plant in Niort, France will have capacity of 8,000 metric tons per year after ...