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National-Spencer Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of petroleum and lubrication equipment, recently acquired California-based MTN Pump Products, wh ...

Financial results for the quarter ending Dec. 31 saw lubricant blender Valvoline on the rebound, and a strong fourth quarter and full year for the lub ...

Apollo Management L.P. has acquired GEs Advanced Materials business, a chemical company whose ceramics division makes boron nitride powders used as so ...

Last week brought positive financial reports from two lubricant suppliers and a major refiner, as both Quaker Chemical and Milacrons Industrial Fluids ...

The first three months of 2006 yielded varying results for major players in the lubricant industry, according to financial reports released the past t ...

Lubrizol Corp. reported Friday that its profit for the first three months of 2005 increased 29 percent from the same period of 2004, thanks largely to ...

The latest round of earnings reports are beginning to march out, confirming what many already know: Lubricant additive demand continued strong, and so ...

Venezuelas national oil company moved in the past few days to soften statements by President Hugo Chavez last week that it had decided to sell refiner ...

Investment firm Capital Southwest Corp. will spin off specialty lubricant marketer Whitmore Manufacturing and two other chemical businesses, creating ...

Milacron Earnings Slide

November 10, 2004

Milacron Inc. reported last week that earnings from its industrial fluids business fell 42 percent during the third quarter as rising raw materials co ...

The lubricant additive businesses of Lubrizol Corp. and the former Ethyl Corp. both posted healthy financial gains for the second quarter, thanks to r ...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Maureen Hunter started her 2014-2015 term as president of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers at its ...

The calendar year started off on a good note for two lubricant industry heavies. Lubrizol Corp. reported last week that it had a profit of $37.5 milli ...

OM Group Inc. has sold its aluminum complex grease thickening business and related activities, 10 months after acquiring them from Rhodia. The aluminu ...

Shell Oil Co. completed its acquisition of Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. yesterday, after agreeing to meet regulator demands to sell Pennzoil-Quaker State ...

At the request of U.S. Federal Trade Commission officials,Shell Oil Co.and Pennzoil-Quaker State Co.have agreedto divest Pennzoil-Quaker States stake ...

In what could be its last first quarter report, Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. said its profits for the first three months of 2002 increased 153 percent co ...

Quarterly financial reports issued during the past week offered mixed signals about the health of the lubricants industry. The Lubrizol Corp. reported ...

OMG Buys Rhodia Division

December 27, 2001

Rhodia announced Friday that it sold its metal organics division, including its grease thickening business, to metal-based specialty chemical manufact ...