Finished Lubricants

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. will roll out three new Bel-Ray branded product lines for passenger car motor oils, commercial lubricants and ...

Last week, the National Lubricating Grease Institute officially launched a research grants program to encourage inquiry into the mysteries of lubricat ...

Indonesias national oil company, PT Pertamina Lubricants, signed an agreement recently to explore the possibilities of establishing a grease company w ...

The United States demand for finished lubricants is expected to grow at a modest compound annual rate of 0.2 percent over the next five years, while M ...

Q2 Earnings Wrap-up

August 9, 2017

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP’s net income rebounded, Afton Chemicals operating profit slipped, Clean Harbors Safety-Kleen segment repo ...

On a recent Friday afternoon in the downtown district of Jiangsu provinces capital city, Nanjing, several customers strolled through Chinese retailer ...

Editors at Lube Reports sister publication, LubesnGreases magazine, have just put the finishing touches on our yearly Lubricants Industry Factbook. Th ...

With North American and Asian automobile manufacturers asking that a stop-gap GF-5 Plus category be inserted in the ILSAC series of passenger car engi ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants increased its marine oil sales by 7.5 percent in the first six months of 2017, compared to the year-earlier period, expanding t ...

Lubricant sales and marketing maven Maura Schreier-Fleming will give the keynote address at the first-ever Petroleum Quality Institute of America Summ ...

China may soon welcome a new provider of synthetic lubricants derived from coal-to-liquid base stocks, as Shanxi Luan Taihang Lubricant Co. advances i ...

Zavenir Daubert India Pvt. and Chemische Werke Kluthe GmbH formed a joint venture to strengthen their reach in markets for specialty chemicals such as ...

Labels on automatic transmission fluid should be clearer in some states starting in January, following recent handbook amendments adopted by the Natio ...

Repsol is investing 5 million (U.S. $5.8 million) to raise production at its Puertollano blending and packaging facility, the company announced earlie ...

American and Asian automakers have sent an official request to the American Petroleum Institute, urging that it create as soon as possible a supplemen ...

The outlook for industrial lube demand in India is positive, thanks to government initiatives aimed at boosting manufacturing activity and infrastruct ...

Publishers Letter

July 21, 2017

Metalworking fluid formulators have been waiting for the curtain to rise and reveal the United States Environmental Protection Agencys decision on the ...

Oils used aboard polar-going vessels must bust through challenges as tough as thick sea ice. Northern European researchers have teamed up to cut a pat ...

The average age of light vehicles in the United States reached 11.6 years by the end of 2016, up almost 17 percent from 9.9 years in 2007. The increas ...

Petrobras is reviving a dormant plan to expand its lubricant blending plant in Duque de Caxias, Brazil. Expected to begin this year and end by 2020, t ...