Specialty chemicals manufacturer Vertellus acquired Denham Springs, Louisiana-based Bercen Chemicals, a lubricant additives and alkyl succinic anhydri ...

WD-40 Co. reported net income of $12.2 million for the quarter ending Nov. 30, down 8.3 percent from $13.3 million in the same period a year earlier.

The newly created Australian Lubricant Association plans to set up processes to verify labels and standardization of lube products sold in Australia, ...

The International Maritime Organizations IMO 2020 regulation was implemented at the start of the year, heralding big changes in the fuels used by ship ...

Pressure is building for the heavy-duty engine oil market to begin shifting to lower viscosity grades, but lighter oils might not provide adequate pro ...

Kluber Lubrication announced last week it acquired wire drawing lubricant producer Traxit International GmbH and its subsidiaries.

Several trends in Africas mining industry - including a skills shortage, environmental issues and contracting practices - are causing mining companies ...

Eighty-four percent of motorists in Russia are men, while just 16 percent are women, and men usually handle engine oil changes, whether by doing it th ...

Lithium grease thickeners still make up the majority of the global market because of their lower cost, but demand for products made with calcium sulfo ...

Although China was the worlds second-largest lubricant market in 2018, it is expected to shrink by a compound annual rate of 0.3 percent out to 2023, ...

Production volumes of high performance lithium complex and polyurea grease are growing to meet market needs, an industry insider said at a conference ...

The trend toward electrified vehicles will mean an increase in demand for API Group III+ base stocks because they will be needed to formulate engine o ...

Base stocks were the hot topic of 2019 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, from expanded production capacity to industry-changing regulations to sa ...

Seventy-two percent of waste oil generated in Spain in 2018 was refined into base stocks, according to a recent annual progress report by Sigaus, a no ...

European Union institutions should revise the modal shift approach to transport policy - a shift from road transport to other modes such as rail - to ...

Declining automotive sales in China and India are expected to impact demand for base oils, industry experts said at a conference in Singapore last mon ...

Asia made some more splash in the global base oil market in 2019, while also asserting some control in the area of lubricant standards.

The National Automobile Dealers Association forecasted sales of 16.8 million new cars and light trucks in the United States for 2020, down slightly fr ...

From the long-awaited adoption of ILSAC GF-6 to a crackdown on 303 hydraulic fluids to mergers and acquisitions, 2019 was a busy year in the Americas ...

Shell Lubricants acquired the assets of American Chemical Technologies Inc., which manufactures and distributes industrial fluids that are based on po ...