Industrial Greases

India’s central government will probably break apart Balmer Lawrie & Co. and divest its units – including its greases and lubricants business ...

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 ...

At the end of March, India implemented the world’s most stringent lockdown in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, shutting down all of its m ...

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 ...

Fuchs Group acquired Sanford, North Carolina-based PolySi Technologies, which formulates and manufactures silicone lubricants and greases, as well as ...

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

Advice for lubricant manufacturers weathering the COVID-19 storm continues to point toward finding new sources of revenue. During a Sept. 16 webinar o ...

Global demand volumes for general industrial oils and grease will decline 13% this year due to COVID-19’s impacts, consultancy Kline & Co. proje ...

The COVID-19 pandemic will reduce global demand volumes for general industrial oils and greases by 13% this year, consultancy Kline & Co. forecast ...

“Greases are absolutely the space lubricant of choice,” Christopher DellaCorte, senior technologist of tribology at NASA, asserted during the keyn ...

Idemitsu Kosan announced that it is cooperating with two Japanese universities on a grant project to develop wind turbine lubricants that would provid ...

The current economic downturn should cause a setback for demand of lubricants used in wind turbines, but the industry should still offer good profits ...

Europe reported slightly lower grease production in 2019, according to a survey conducted by the United States-based National Lubricating Grease Insti ...

While blenders converting their production lines for hand sanitizer grab headlines, companies that make greases for life-saving ventilators are quietl ...

North American production of lubricating greases seems to have dipped from 2018 to 2019, according to a survey by the United States-based National Lub ...

Grease production in Russia rose 51 percent in 2019, continuing a four-year growth trend that has been boosted by a government-sponsored drive to repl ...

Spotlight on Grease

June 2, 2020

The grease industry has been under pressure to develop formulations that keep pace with the increased performance and efficiency requirements of moder ...

Polymers can improve water resistance, thickener yield and tackiness in grease formulations, but their long molecular structure made formulators quest ...