Finished Lubricants

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 ...

Australias mining industry is currently in a trough, pressuring some lube suppliers to the industry to rely more on tangential markets until performan ...

WD-40 Profit, Sales Up

July 12, 2017

WD-40 reported net income of $14.4 million for the quarter ending May 31, up 14 percent from a year earlier, with net sales up 2 percent at $98.2 mill ...

Lubricant additives supplier Infineum sold its Paratac brand of tackifiers and associated business to Functional Products Inc., the companies announce ...

Brazils finished lubricant demand declined another 7 percent to 1.15 million metric tons in 2016, according to an industry insider, meaning South and ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency entered into consent orders that allow three companies to manufacture and import a wide range of chlorinated ...

MOSCOW – Russian demand for motor oils used by on-road vehicles stagnated the past couple years but is projected to make a slow recovery in 2017 ...

Specialty chemicals company Tiarco is expanding its Dalton, Georgia, chemical production facility, which makes various component chemicals used to man ...

Specialty chemicals manufacturer DuBois Chemicals acquired Blue Star Lubrication Technology, an industrial lubricants provider, the company announced ...

BOSTON – At last weeks semiannual gathering of ASTM Committee D2, both the Passenger Car Engine Oil and Heavy Duty Engine Oil Classification Pan ...

China produces almost as much grease as North America and Europe combined, and the rest of Asia collectively churns out more than each of those Wester ...

New Mexicos attorney general filed a lawsuit against Dolgencorp LLC, owner of Dollar General, alleging the discount retail store chain engaged in unfa ...