Industrial Lubricants

Pertamina Expands into U.A.E.

February 13, 2013

PT Pertamina is collaborating with Sharjah National Lube Oil Co. (Sharlu) to manufacture and market Meditran Series marine lubricants in the United Ar ...

Milacron Gets Mold-Masters

February 13, 2013

Milacron will acquire 100 percent of hot-runner manufacturer Mold-Masters’s shares for $975 million. Milacrons Cimcool industrial fluids segment ...

Jergens Industrial Supply acquired John M. Allen Co. for an undisclosed amount. Both companies distribute metalworking fluids. By bringing together J ...

Aurora Bags DuBois

December 27, 2012

Aurora Capital Group acquired DuBois Chemicals, a specialty chemicals company whose products include industrial lubricants and metalworking fluids. Th ...

Engines that run hotter and are made of new materials are stretching the limits of aviation lubricants. Experts say a new generation of oils is needed ...

LISBON-European manufacturers of H1 lubricants for the food industry say they are concerned about what they view as potentially misleading terminology ...

Marine fuel supplier Chemoil Energy Ltd. acquired a 50 percent stake in Chemlube International and sister company Sopetra S.A. The deal provides the l ...

The worlds lubricating grease manufacturers created nearly 2.4 billion pounds of the stuff during 2011, a record-high volume, according to data releas ...

Health Canada postponed lowering the limits on the popular metalworking fluid biocide triazine to 500 ppm, a change originally scheduled to go into ef ...

ST. LOUIS-The search for cost-effective alternatives to formaldehyde-releasing biocides in metalworking fluids, which face severe regulatory restricti ...

Regulatory pressures continue to push metalworking fluid formulators to find alternative chemistries, even in the absence of hard data to back up rest ...

Irans Pars Oil is preparing to open a second grease plant at its refinery near Tehran. Officials said the new plant, which will have capacity of 2,000 ...

Private equity firm CCMP Capital Advisors will acquire Milacron from Avenue Capital Group for an undisclosed amount. Milacrons Cimcool industrial flui ...

Private equity firm The Riverside Co. acquired Galaxy Associates as an add-on to DuBois Chemicals. Both companies make specialty chemicals, including ...

Russias Gazprom will produce Texaco-branded marine oils in Russia for U.S. oil major Chevron, Gazprom Neft said yesterday. Under the agreement, Gazp ...

Milacron and subsidiary Cimcool have sued Stough Tool Sales for marketing pink industrial fluids, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competiti ...

Cortec launched a new Middle East joint venture with its regional distributor United Corrosion Technologies to supply corrosion inhibitors in the regi ...

Dover, EPA Settle CP Violation

February 15, 2012

Dover Chemical will pay $1.4 million in civil penalties for unauthorized manufacture of chlorinated paraffins at facilities in Dover, Ohio, and Hammon ...

The metalworking fluids market in North America, Asia and Europe is projected to grow at about 3 percent per year, from 2.1 million metric tons in 201 ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG has acquired the worldwide food-grade lubricants business of Shell International Petroleum. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisiti ...