Automotive Greases

The government of China’s Liaoning province wants to help industry develop high-performance greases for use in advanced equipment as part of a three ...

Ardova Loss Gets Bigger

March 1, 2022

Nigerian blender and distributor Ardova PLC reported an enlarged operating loss and higher sales revenue for its lubricants and greases segment for th ...

The Road to Standardization

December 1, 2021

Quantifying Tackiness and Adhesion in Greases Standardization of test methods in the lubricants industry is neither a quick nor an easy process.&nb ...

Tide Water Oil Co. and base oils and lubricants trader Maximus International both reported drops in profits for the quarter ended Sept. 30, while prof ...

Profit, Revenue Jump at Ardova

November 16, 2021

The lubricants and greases segment of Nigerian blender and distributor Ardova Plc posted an increase in net profit and a more than 60% jump in sales r ...

For the quarter ending June 30, Tide Water Oil reported a decrease in profit, while Gulf Oil Lubricants India, Maximus International, Continental Petr ...

India’s GP Petroleums reported a steeper net loss for the quarter ended June 30, while the lubricants unit of Balmer Lawrie and Savita Oil posted hu ...

Lithium greases made a small comeback in 2020 in Asia’s two largest grease markets, according to the latest survey by the United States-based Nation ...

A devastating fire that started Monday continued to burn Tuesday at Lubrizol’s Chemtool grease manufacturing plant in Rockton, Illinois. No employee ...

Lubricating grease production in North America declined 17% in 2020, according to the National Lubricating Grease Institute’s latest yearly survey. ...

India’s Standard Greases and Specialties Pvt. earlier this week purchased a stake in Archit Organosys, which produces organic chemicals, pigments, s ...

Spotlight on Grease

June 1, 2021

Figures from the National Lubricating Grease Institute’s 2019 Annual Production Survey showed that although lithium remains the dominant thickener f ...

Chinese lubricants marketer Jiangsu Lopal Tech recently exported its first batch of lubricants to Pakistan, which it said marked another step in its i ...

DuPont said last week that it is investing $40 million to construct specialty lubricant manufacturing units at existing factories in Japan and in the ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd., Apar Industries’ transformer oil and specialty oil segment, Balmer Lawrie’s grease segment, Savita Oil and Maximus ...

Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan Co. will consolidate its lubricant and grease business by buying up stock of Toa Oil Co. to make the small refiner a wholly-o ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency last month excluded the lubricant industry from a new prohibition on phenol isopropylated phosphate ...

Lanka IOC said recently that it expects to complete construction of Sri Lanka’s first grease plant by the end of this year and that the 3,000 metric ...

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 ...

Custom Content – Valvoline, one of the world’s leading lubricant and automotive suppliers, has made a frictionless move towards establishing itsel ...