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 ...

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?

The amount of biolubricants used in the forestry industry should increase in coming years, a new study by Freedonia says, as equipment manufacturers a ...

Thai officials working to foster agriculture-based industry have highlighted lubricants as one of two types of products offering the best opportunity ...

ExxonMobil entered a joint development agreement with biobased base stock manufacturer BioAccelergy to commercially scale the latter’s products, the ...

France-based Arkema announced on Monday a 50% increase in global capacity for its Oleris castor oil derivatives, which are used in synthetic lubricant ...

Boosted by cuts in import duties, India’s palm oil exports are projected to rise 6% to 8.5 million tons for fiscal year 2020-21 and 3% to 8.6 millio ...

The government of Malaysia – the world’s second-largest palm oil producer – is raising the threshold of its windfall tax for the palm oil sector ...

Entering an important phase for greener, more sustainable lubricants Gone are the days when biobased lubricants were considered niche products and ...

The joint venture owners of esters supplier Emery Oleochemicals have agreed to sell the Asia-Pacific portion of that business to a new joint venture b ...

India implemented a temporary cut in the duty charged on palm oil imports, part of an effort to offset a sharp run-up in prices over the past year. An ...

Lubes'n'Greases talked to Mark Miller, the CEO of Biosynthetic Technologies, about the sustainability of his company’s products and why he thinks su ...

Thailand’s central government is working to develop its palm oil industry, and the strategy includes promoting demand for bio-lubricants, -greases a ...

Additive technology goes green. Green additives are escaping their hamster wheel of low volumes, high costs, incremental improvements and niche lub ...

The United States Customs and Border Protection agency last week announced a ban on palm oil produced in Malaysia by Sime Darby Plantation Bhd. and an ...

The parent company of SK Lubricants is looking for partners for base oil and chemical joint ventures, according to a New Year’s address by its CEO. ...

Government requirements for environmentally acceptable lubricants are relatively simple, but performance properties of products available to the shipp ...

While global lubricant demand drags, says Caitlin Jacobs, the odds are still looking good for renewable and biodegradable base stocks.