Finished Lubricants

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 ...

Moscow police raided a business last week to shut down production and online sale of allegedly counterfeit motor oils. The economic security and antic ...

Misleading labels are one of several factors interfering with the proper use of adequately performing automatic transmission fluids, according to the ...

Under the Radar

June 20, 2017

Its not just oil-to-sea interfaces that operators need to worry about in VGP-governed waters. Lubes for auxiliary marine applications often sneak past ...

Gelatin has found a niche outside its usual gummy bears and aspics: sweetening the performance of metalworking lubes.

Greater automation in the food industry is raising the pressure on greases for processing equipment. A common compound in non-stick cookware can lift ...

Water in lubricating greases has been a concern for more than a century. Recent research shows that calcium sulfonate greases can be an answer to wate ...

Recently, concerns haves been voiced about mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons and mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons in food-grade lubricants. But exte ...

Foreign marketers of motor oils lost their competitive edge in Russia to domestic players in 2016, primarily because of the countrys recession and ste ...

U.S. drilling fluid demand is projected to rise 11 percent per year to 1.45 billion gallons in 2021, driven by a recovery in drilling activity and inc ...