Finished Lubricants

ConocoPhillips last week launched a new line of white oils and food-grade lubricants to be marketed under its Conoco, Phillips 66 and 76 brand names. ...

Total reported grease production worldwide topped 1.8 billion pounds (822 million kilograms) in 2004,versus 1.69 billion pounds reported in 2003, acco ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland- While the United Kingdoms grease market has shriveled and the major oil companies have stopped making grease here, an industry ex ...

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

Prista Expands Grease Plant

November 24, 2004

Bulgarian lubricants maker Prista Oil significantly expanded grease production at its plant near the nations capital, the company told Lube Report. Th ...

BioAmber is nearing completion of its plant in Sarnia, Ontario, where it will produce 30,000 metric tons per year of succinic acid, and a portion will ...

Greasemaking Made Easy?

November 17, 2004

DANA POINT, Calif. — Lubricating grease manufacturing is an energy-intensive, multi-phase effort, beginning with a tricky saponification step in ...

CMS: a $19 Billion Market?

September 29, 2004

The popularity of chemical management services has grown quickly over the past four years, according to a recent survey by an organization promoting t ...

Valvoline significantly increased its share of oil changes performed by independent quick lubes, according to results of a survey conducted by an indu ...

Cargill Industrial Oils and Lubricants will take over productionof a soybean-based transformer oil developed by Cooper Power Systems, under the terms ...

Base stocks are crucial components of all finished lubricants. With the base stock percentage of a finished lubricant ranging from 80 to 90 percent, t ...

Prices for motor oils and other finished lubricants are on the rise. Two major suppliers announced price hikes this month and observers expect others ...

Quick lubes may be moving into small-town America, but assumptions about them offering less profitability are turning out to be true. That was the con ...

No Growth for Grease

August 13, 2003

Total reported worldwide grease production was 1.61 billion pounds (726 million kilograms) in 2002, unchanged from 2001, according to the latest Greas ...

Global grease production fell nearly 6 percent from 2000 to 2001, totaling just over 1.5 billion pounds last year, according to the National Lubricati ...

Synthetic lubricant demand in Southeast Asia will increase by 3.5 percent annually through 2008, a new study projects. It adds, however, that major oi ...