Miscellaneous

French biobased chemistry company Groupe Berkem yesterday announced completion of its acquisition of Biopress, a French producer of vegetable oils – ...

How are today’s EALs formulated to deliver reliable performance in a broad range of industrial applications?

Creating bio-lubricants using the liquid by-product extracted during processing of cashew nuts is the subject of a new patent earned by Brazil’s Fed ...

Japanese specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco reported a 14% increase in sales revenue for its specialty lubricants segment and a 1% decrease in s ...

NLGI and ELGI’s grease working groups stay busy. What are some of the latest and most pressing things on their to-do lists?

Bio-lubricant demand in 14 major markets will outpace overall lubricant demand for at least the next decade, with demand in China, Canada and parts of ...

South Korean lubricant marketer startup Seoul Innovative Technologies Corp. recently began to have lubricants produced in Russia through a toll blendi ...

Shell agreed to acquire the environmentally considerate lubricants business of Switzerland-headquartered independent lubricants manufacturer Panolin G ...

Shell and TotalEnergies have both announced partnerships to develop electric vehicle battery immersion cooling fluids, signaling a continued positioni ...

Moresco Corp. reported an 11% increase in sales revenue for its specialty lubricants segment and a 4% decline in sales for its synthetic lubricants se ...

Castrol and electric vehicle propulsion specialist Sprint Power will jointly develop ultra-fast battery packs cooled by Castrol’s ON EV thermal flui ...

Japanese specialty lubricant producer Moresco Corp. reported improved sales for its specialty lubricants for its first fiscal quarter ended in May, wi ...

A special committee of the American Petroleum Institute is drafting a recommended practice for calculating the environmental sustainability of finishe ...

Nuspec Oil, a United Kingdom-based company developing biobased base oils and advancing commercialization of novel rapeseed oils, was among five startu ...

Thailand’s National Energy Technology Center is heading a consortium working to develop biobased transformer oils formulated with palm oil as part o ...

Perstorp Group announced on July 7 that it has increased production capacity of 2-ethylhexanoic acid at its plant in Stenungsund, Sweden, to meet glob ...

German independent lubricant maker Fuchs Petrolub bought a 28% stake in E-Lyte Innovations GmbH, a start-up that develops and produces electrolytes fo ...

Cosmo Energy Holdings Co. announced recently that its Carboneut-brand 10W-30 diesel engine oil became the first engine oil accredited to bear the Biom ...

Bio-based and sustainable lubricants are not always one and the same. What are the nuanced differences between them?

What makes metallocene polyalphaolefins particularly well suited for use in wind turbine lubricants?