Industrial Greases

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 ...

Rising electric vehicle sales and global carbon-neutrality initiatives are helping drive demand for use of tall oil fatty acid derivatives in the lubr ...

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 ...

Back in the Saddle

July 3, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic—and other factors, like severe weather—forced temporary shutdowns in a variety of industries. Because of this downtime, valu ...

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. ...

Independent lubricant blender Fuchs Petrolub, based in Mannheim, Germany, acquired Swedish company Gleitmo Technik AB’s lubricants business, the com ...

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

The vast majority of Russian-made heavy machinery, smelters in steel and cast-iron complexes, machines in power plants, bearings installed in producti ...

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 ...

Greases can offer advantages over gear oils in helping to prevent wear of precision reducers – known as RV reducers or robot joints – an official ...

Meridian Adhesives Group acquired Pacific Adhesive Systems, a Malaysia-based corporation with lubricant and grease operations, Meridian announced last ...

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

As electric vehicles threaten to drain away the lifeblood of the lubricants industry—engine oil accounts for about 40% of the market—many companie ...

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

Since the first steam trains of early 19th century England, locomotives have been an invaluable boon to trade and civilization. While the rise of air ...

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