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Chevron on Friday sold its 50-percent stake in Caltex Australia, a leading fuel retailer and one of the largest lubricant suppliers in Australia.

Most motorists in five Asian nations get their engine oil changed by professionals and follow experts advice in choosing which oil to use, according t ...

Asia-Pacifics microcrystalline wax demand is expected to show strong growth to 2019, while its petrolatum demand is projected to grow more slowly over ...

Best Practices

March 27, 2015

Sara Lefcourt shows how a healthy dose of hindsight can boost the success rate of your future projects.

Fuchs, Cosan Earnings Up

March 25, 2015

Cosan Lubrificantes reported increased revenues in the fourth quarter and full year, compared to 2013s fourth quarter and full year, while 2014 profit ...

Hydrodec said it plans for all six production trains at its rebuilt and expanded transformer oil refinery in Ohio to be operational starting May 20. T ...

Yip’s Sees Dip in 2014

March 24, 2015

Hong Kongs Yips Chemical Holdings Ltd. posted a loss of HK $2.9 million (U.S. $374,000) for its lubricants division in 2014, down from a profit of HK ...

As part of an effort to bolster profits, automobile dealers and manufacturers in Malaysia and Indonesia are expanding aftermarket oil change businesse ...

Global microcrystalline wax and petrolatum demand are both expected to outstrip supply through 2019, creating a shortage in each case, consultancy Kli ...

Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment posted $49.7 million in revenues for its fourth fiscal quarter ending Jan. 3, up 18.4 percent from $42 mi ...

LONDON – Initial estimates by lubricants manufacturer Fuchs Petrolub have put global lubricants demand at 35.4 million metric tons in 2014. Whil ...

The worlds two biggest lubricant suppliers, Shell and ExxonMobil, both decided in recent years, that it was time to scale back operations in Australia ...

Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC posted an 8 percent increase in profits for 2014, thanks mostly to cost savings.

Industry Calendar

March 17, 2015

April 14-15. UNITI Mineral Oil Technology Congress Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany fogel@uniti.de www.uniti.de 16-17. Tri ...

LONDON – The global white oils market will show moderate growth, expanding to 1.6 million metric tons by 2023, consultancy Kline & Co. proje ...

4Q Earnings Wrap-up

March 4, 2015

Calumet Specialty Products Partners posted a net loss, Chemturas industrial performance products segments operating income remained unchanged, Clean H ...

Birch Hill Equity Partners completed its purchase of Newalta Corp.s Industrial Division last week, including its rerefinery in North Vancouver, Canada ...

Moresco Corp. and China Rerun Chemical Group reported gains in profits - Moresco for its third quarter, Rerun for its 2014 fiscal year. Castrol India ...

Thai marine fuels and lubes supplier Sea Oil PCL bought a 50 percent stake last month in the local subsidiary of a Canadian oil exploration business.

Best Practices

March 2, 2015

Sara Lefcourt suggests how to sharpen our pencils to take deeper advantage of lower oil prices.