Finished Lubricants

Castrol India and Gulf Oil Lubricants India each temporarily closed its lubricant plants as the government tries to stop the spread of the deadly coro ...

Lithium supplier Livent Corp. suspended operations at its two Argentinian facilities this week in accordance with a national mandatory quarantine aime ...

DuBois to Acquire Cimcool

March 25, 2020

Hillenbrand Inc. will sell its Cimcool metalworking fluids business to DuBois Chemicals Inc. for $224 million in cash, under an agreement announced la ...

As Europeans consider regulating the presence of two categories of mineral hydrocarbons in food, some palm oil producers in Southeast Asia are turning ...

PdVSA Lube Chief Arrested

March 13, 2020

The president of Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.’s lubricant business was one of several company officials arrested early this month on corruption alleg ...

A Sri Lankan government agency raided 15 retail shops in mid-February and confiscated unauthorized lubricants as part of an effort to address the incr ...

Brazils Petrobras said Tuesday that it plans to sell its fuels and lubricants business in Colombia, part of a broader plan to sell assets in order to ...

Quaker Chemical reported an increase in fourth quarter net income, but a decline for 2019. Its net sales were higher for the quarter and 2019, followi ...

India Amends Grease Standards

February 28, 2020

Attempting to ease the impact of growing competition for lithium, India expanded a government performance standard for greases to cover other types of ...

Lube consumption in China dipped 1.3 percent to an estimated 7.4 million metric tons in 2019, while the value of the market remained the same at nearl ...

Ingevity Corp. announced Feb. 20 that its board of directors and D. Michael Wilson agreed he would resign as president, CEO and a director, effective ...

HollyFrontier Corp.'s lubricants and specialty products segment posted weaker income from operations for the fourth quarter and year but had stronger ...

An Indonesian blending plant partly owned by Repsol will begin producing the companys lubricants by April. The Spanish company plans to expand the pla ...

United Arab Emirates-based GP Global said it plans to invest Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion or U.S. $14 million) to build a greenfield lubricant blending ...

South Korea lubricant consumption fell to a 10-year low of 990,455 kiloliters (889,627 metric tons) in 2019, the Korea Lubricating Oil Industries Asso ...

ILSAC GF-6 is on its home stretch to commercial introduction on May 1, but automakers and the lubricant industry are questioning whether additional wo ...

Its no secret that electric vehicles pose a growing threat to the lubes industry. Odds are lube packaging wont escape the transition unscathed, either ...

The Gearbox Killer?

February 14, 2020

White etching cracks are a harbinger of gearbox death in wind turbines and other equipment. New research points to subpar steel as the likely culprit, ...

Need To Know

February 14, 2020

Tom Glenn outlines some factors that may contribute to stickier price increases this year.

Automotive

February 14, 2020

Steve Swedberg makes an argument for more widespread adoption of API FA-4 engine oils.