Industrial Lubricants

BASF will build a new world-scale production plant for alkylethanolamines at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium, with start-up planned in 2024, the ...

Japan’s KH Neochem Co.’s performance materials segment, which includes refrigeration lubricant raw materials, and metalworking fluid and industria ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. reported a steeper net loss for the quarter ending Dec. 1 and the full year of 2021, despite large increases ...

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 ...

Spain’s lubricant demand increased 11% in 2021, compared to the same month in 2020, though it fell 3% shy of the country’s demand in 2019, accordi ...

As engine technology and emissions requirements in the marine sector continually shift, lubricants must keep pace. What kinds of lubricants are best f ...

A 2020 emissions regulation that caused ship operators to transition to cylinder oils with lower base numbers had less impact on 4-stroke trunk piston ...

U.S. Adds More Wind Turbines

February 16, 2022

Wind power generation capacity in the United States grew 10% in 2021 to 134,996 megawatts, but the amount added was less than the record high set in 2 ...

Maritime emissions regulations introduced in 2020 caused ship operators to transition to cylinder oils with lower base numbers of 40 and led a market- ...

The European Commission awarded Swedish company SKF a €1.6 million grant to install and operate a stand-alone processing plant for regeneration of i ...

Japanese specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp. reported higher sales of specialty lubricants and slightly higher sales of synthetic oils for ...

France Lube Demand Rises

January 18, 2022

Lubricant demand in France was up year over year in November 2021 for the first time since August and only the second time since May, lifted by substa ...

The falling costs for wind energy turbines in China, where high coal prices have caused a number of power shortages during 2021, could represent a gro ...

Investment firm SK Capital has completed its purchase of a controlling stake in Seqens, a French producer of chemicals for pharmaceuticals, as well as ...

The Bounty of Bench Tests

January 1, 2022

The changing landscape for lubricants and greases means that bench tests must also evolve. How are bench tests supporting solutions to new lubrication ...

The Aftershock

January 1, 2022

There were eight finished lubricant price increases in 2021. What led to these increases, and how have market conditions been affected?

KH Neochem Approves Expansion

December 31, 2021

The board of directors of Japan’s KH Neochem Co. decided on Dec. 27 to invest ¥9.5 billion at its manufacturing plant in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefe ...

Croda Selling Unit to Cargill

December 28, 2021

Agricultural products company Cargill Inc. has agreed to buy most of Croda International Plc’s Performance Technologies and Industrial Chemicals uni ...

French building materials company Saint-Gobain announced on Monday the acquisition of construction chemicals company GCP Applied Technologies, whose p ...

Industrial lubrication company Condat reached platinum level on the Ecovadis corporate social responsibility platform, putting the French lubricant co ...