Own Your Failure I recently watched on CNBC an extremely interesting interview with former EBay chief Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg, former CE ...

At the end of March, India implemented the world’s most stringent lockdown in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, shutting down all of its m ...

At first glance, the lubricants industry seems to be moving smoothly toward greater sustainability. But if you look more closely, you will notice obst ...

Sinopec lube business arm Great Wall and Tsinghua University’s Tianjin Research Institute for Advanced Equipment formed a joint research center in T ...

South Korean base oil refiner GS Caltex and Thai Oil’s base oil business both posted large increases in net profit for the quarter ending Sept. 30.

Vertex Energy’s black oil segment, which includes its rerefineries and used oil collection business, reported a smaller operating loss but lower rev ...

A private equity firm acquired Nashville, Tennessee-based Kano Laboratories, which produces branded penetrating oils and lubricants that professionals ...

For the quarter ending Sept. 30, India’s Tide Water Oil Co. and GP Petroleums Ltd. both reported strong increases in profits, while MJL Bangladesh L ...

The United State Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $300,000 grant recently to a New Jersey university that will try to help ExxonMobil reduce ...

Cosan’s Moove finished lubricants production and distribution segment reported higher income and revenue for the quarter ending Sept. 30, compared t ...

Castrol India Ltd. reported higher profit for the quarter ending Sept. 30, compared to the same period in 2019, while Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. p ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP reported a worse loss for the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared to the same period of 2019, while profits improv ...

A $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will help accelerate development of Baltimore, Maryland-based Pixelligent’s nanocomposite te ...

For the quarter ending Sept. 30, India’s Apar Industries posted higher net profit and Sri Lanka’s Lanka IOC reported a huge decline in profit, com ...

Fuchs Group acquired Sanford, North Carolina-based PolySi Technologies, which formulates and manufactures silicone lubricants and greases, as well as ...

Afton Chemical reported higher operating profit and a decrease in sales for its third quarter, and Valvoline’s operating income and sales from its t ...

BP’s lubricants business reported a slight year-to-year decline in profit for the third quarter, and independent lubricants blender Fuchs Petrolub S ...

Pleasing Cranky Customers  By now, we clearly understand that many of our customers, both retail and business-to-business, have not been happy ...

Crunch Time  Looking at the United States lubricants business today, it’s hard to believe that just two decades ago there were close to 10,0 ...

Troubled oil trader and lubricants producer Hin Leong Trading Pte. has apparently been put up for sale, based on notices placed in local media earlier ...