Business

Brown Evans Distributing and Union Distributing merged to form Senergy Petroleum, which will distribute lubricants in Arizona and the U.S. Southwest. ...

Pettit Oil Co. acquired the lubricant distribution and other assets of PNEC Corp., which does business as SC Fuels, for an undisclosed amount. The ac ...

Pertamina Expands into U.A.E.

February 13, 2013

PT Pertamina is collaborating with Sharjah National Lube Oil Co. (Sharlu) to manufacture and market Meditran Series marine lubricants in the United Ar ...

Milacron Gets Mold-Masters

February 13, 2013

Milacron will acquire 100 percent of hot-runner manufacturer Mold-Masters’s shares for $975 million. Milacrons Cimcool industrial fluids segment ...

PMC Group completed the acquisition of Dow Chemicals global methyl tin stabilizers and solid lubricants business, including a manufacturing facility i ...

ROSENHEIM, Germany – Lubricant formulators have been pushed hard enough to improve product performance. Now theyll also have to worry about wher ...

NewMarket’s Afton Chemical additives subsidiary and Ashlands Valvoline division each reported strong increases in operating profit and revenue f ...

Gazprom to Oil Chinese Cars

January 30, 2013

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft-SM forged a technical and marketing partnership with the Chinese automaker Lifan, the energy giant said last week. ...

Raaj Unocal Lubricants will manufacture and market co-branded engine oils exclusively for Hindustan Motors vehicles under an agreement signed in Kolka ...

ORourke Petroleum recently acquired Penco Oil in East Texas. Both companies are Shell lubricants distributors. Mush Khan, president and chief operati ...

Rosneft Starts 2013 Off Big

January 16, 2013

Rosneft, one of Russia’s biggest lubricants marketers, increased its supply of automotive lubricants in 2012 and recently introduced two key pro ...

WD-40 Posts Strong Results

January 9, 2013

Net income for WD-40 totaled $10.9 million for the quarter ending Nov. 30, up 61 percent from the prior year period, while net sales were up 12 percen ...

Martin Midstream Partners L.P. acquired lubricants distributor Talens Marine and Fuel for $47.4 million. Martin purchased Jennings, La.-based Talens ...

MOSCOW-Russias fast growing vehicle market is causing significant changes in the country’s motor oil sales, stricter compliance by lube manufact ...

Jergens Industrial Supply acquired John M. Allen Co. for an undisclosed amount. Both companies distribute metalworking fluids. By bringing together J ...

U.S. technical, laboratory and R&D managers who responded to the LubesnGreases 2012 Lubricants Industry Salary Survey said they earn an average o ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Petro-Canada, the Americas only major producer of both API Group II and Group III base oils, says the next five to seven yea ...

Equity Firm Picks Up J.A.M.

December 27, 2012

Ridgemont Equity Partners last week acquired J.A.M. Distributing Co., which supplies ExxonMobil, Phillips 66 and other base stocks and lubricants. Fin ...

LISBON, Portugal-With API Group I base oil producers in Europe facing tumultuous times, one presenter told UEILs 2012 Congress that heavy naphthenic m ...

Aurora Bags DuBois

December 27, 2012

Aurora Capital Group acquired DuBois Chemicals, a specialty chemicals company whose products include industrial lubricants and metalworking fluids. Th ...