Shell Chemical LP will increase production of linear alpha olefins (LAO) at its manufacturing plant in Geismar, La., adding 425,000 metric tons per ye ...

Kraton Performance Polymers Inc. plans to acquire tall oil products maker Arizona Chemical Holdings Corp. for $1.4 billion. The markets and customers ...

Forchem plans to increase throughput at its Rauma, Finland, tall oil distillation plant by 5 to 10 percent through the installation of new software. T ...

Compared to Europe and North America, the Asia-Pacific region does not consume much synthetic base stock, but it produces a growing and broadening vol ...

Malaysian oleochemicals company IOI Group agreed last week to purchase Germanys Cremer Oleo GmbH for 89.4 million (U.S. $101.3 million).

Naco Synthetics and Chinese coal company Luan Group opened a polyalphaolefin plant late last month, a Shanxi province facility that uses coal-to-liqui ...

Malaysias Emery Oleochemicals plans to expand its biolubricant business globally with partnerships, acquisitions and expansion of existing sites in Ma ...

MOSCOW-Russian oil major Tatneft and subsidiary Nizhnekamskneftekhim announced plans to restart polyalphaolefins production at its plant in Nizhnekams ...

Long-term investments in biobased products are starting to bear fruit. Are they finally poised to break out of the "green" niche and enter the mainstr ...

The Russian government imposed a new petrochemical industry taxation rule that envisions gradual decrease on an annual basis of the export tax for cru ...

Illinois-based chemical distributor Univar Inc. announced last week that it acquired the assets of oleochemical manufacturer and distributor Chemical ...

Ineos Oligomers will build a unit at its La Porte, Texas, polyalphaolefin plant that will produce 20,000 metric tons per year of high-viscosity PAO up ...

Global palm oil production is booming, but the basic oleochemicals market is saturated, according to Frost & Sullivan.

BMW Malaysia Sdn. asked the Malaysian government to reconsider its plans to implement its B10 biodiesel mandate in October this year, concerned that ...

The world currently consumes approximately 3 million tons per year of synthetic and semi-synthetic finished lubricants, but the rate of usage varies s ...

The Asia-Pacific region is the worlds largest market for finished lubricants, and with rapidly growing economies, its set to leap-frog some other regi ...

California is considering a bill that encourages the recycling of used motor oil derived from plant- or animal-based feedstocks. NORA (An Association ...

Although global lubricants demand is consistently flat, ester-based lubricants will grow at an average rate of 6 percent for the next several years, a ...

An Oregon state legislator introduced a bill last week that would require all state construction projects to use biodegradable lubricants, then quickl ...

BioAmber Inc. noted this week that its 30,000 metric ton per year succinic acid plant in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada – which it says will be the wor ...