Automotive Lubricants

Total reported grease production worldwide reached 2.25 billion pounds (1 billion kilograms) in 2008, and was 2.3 billion pounds in 2007, according to ...

Heartland Automotive Holdings, the largest U.S. Jiffy Lube franchisee, and its affiliates on Jan. 7 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Th ...

Grease production in China saw a dramatic 71.5 percent increase from 2005 to 2006, according to NLGIs latest grease production survey, leading a world ...

Great Gobs of Grease!

July 26, 2006

Reported worldwide grease production in 2005 topped 1.9 billion pounds (862 million kilograms), up 1.5 percent from 2004, according to the latest grea ...

Proprietary specifications – on top of industrywide standards – are becoming a way of life for heavy-duty engine oil marketers. While vowi ...

Shell Rules the Fast-lube Roost

September 14, 2005

Shell Lubricants Pennzoil or Quaker State motor oils are listed as the house brand by 36 percent of smaller U.S. quick-lube operators, while Valvoline ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...