With lithium prices hot on their heels, grease producers are chasing after less-costly thickeners.

Natural gas is fueling ever more of the worlds increasing energy demands. Stationary engines havent escaped this trend, and oil formulators have to ke ...

Eastern Europe increased its share of the continents total lubricant demand from 43 percent in 2007 to 45 percent in 2016. Industry insiders believe t ...

Boris Kamchev reports on Russias synthetic lubricants market.

Africas grease demand is expanding due to agricultural, industrial, infrastructure and mining projects. However, grease blending capacity on the conti ...

Ever since the easing of international sanctions on Iran, experts have speculated about the role the country will play in oil markets. Iran boasts the ...

Quaker Chemical announced last week an agreement to acquire Houghton International, a deal that will combine two of the worlds largest suppliers of me ...

WD-40 reported net income of $12.4 million for the quarter ending Feb. 28, down 10 percent from a year earlier, with net sales up 2 percent at $96.5 m ...

Shell and Phillips 66 notified U.S. customers of upcoming price increases on finished lubricants that take place around mid-May. Shell informed custom ...

Testing company Intertek Group plc announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of KJ Tech Services, a Germany-based company specializing ...

Duties and taxes on synthetic lubricants in Sri Lanka shot up by 31 percent late last year, a move commerce advocate groups and traders say is roiling ...

Russian passenger cars and light commercial vehicles consumed 280 million liters of motor oils in 2016, up 4.3 percent from 2015, and the growth of it ...

ExxonMobil, Chevron, Chemlube, Pinnacle Oil and Old World notified U.S. customers of upcoming price increases on finished lubricants that go into effe ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will reconsider its use of Toxic Substances Control Act Section 5 to review medium- and long-chain chlorinate ...

Amsoil Inc. founder Al Amatuzio, a pioneer in the marketing of synthetic engine oils in the United States, died Friday at the age of 93. Amatuzio form ...

OG&A BioSpecialties LLC plans to build a 1,000 barrels per day biobased wax and ester production plant in Kentucky by the end of 2017, and expect ...

Eastern Europes lubricant demand declined 0.5 percent from 2015 to just slightly above 3 million tons in 2016, hindered by economic problems in Russia ...

BP Castrol, Martin Lubricants, Cam2 International and Smittys Supply notified U.S. customers of finished lubricant increases that take effect from mid ...

The growing popularity of app-based, on-demand oil change services in Indonesia gives lubricant marketers a new channel of distribution into second- a ...

After picking up at the start of this decade, the penetration of synthetic lubricants in Russia suffered a setback in 2014. Since then the popularity ...