Finished Lubricants

Solid Pay for Lab Managers

December 14, 2016

Laboratory and research and development managers reap the rewards for providing the formulations that keep a lubricants business going, averaging $133 ...

GF-6 May Be Delayed to 2019

December 14, 2016

ORLANDO, Florida – ILSAC GF-6, the passenger car engine oil upgrade now under development, has slipped behind schedule again and may not get its ...

Mount Meru plans to open three blending plants, and Mogas will launch one larger blending facility over the next two years in several countries in Eas ...

Russian oil major Gazprom Neft said Monday it will set up new lubricants production in Western or Central Europe to reduce the growing volumes being s ...

Discussions about moving major markets in the Middle East to higher value lubricants have seemingly gone on forever. Today, the impetus to make that h ...

Lubricants make up less than 1 percent of a plants operating cost, but they can directly influence more than one-half of plant maintenance costs. Comb ...

Global consumption of metalworking fluids will swell in coming years as increased industrialization in Asia-Pacific boosts the regions share to nearly ...

Netherlands-based VPS Lubricants will start blending lubricants in Rwanda in the first quarter of 2017. Erik Vermeer, commercial director for VPS Inte ...

Quaker Chemical Corp., one of the worlds biggest suppliers of metalworking fluids, purchased Lubricor Inc., a Canadian company offering similar produc ...

Licensing began last week for the latest engine oil specifications from Europes auto industry – a long-awaited update that significantly raises ...

French oil giant Total Lubricants opened a grease production plant in Tianjin, China, Friday - its first in the Asia-Pacific region.

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. said it will partner with BP Lubricants USA to begin blending Castrol motor oil in its newly expanded blendin ...

The Union of the European Lubricant Industry recently helped defeat a proposal to bring bulk lubricants under the European Unions Excise Movement and ...

Diesel engine oils meeting the American Petroleum Institutes new standards, API CK-4 and FA-4, will begin appearing in the marketplace tomorrow, beari ...

Global lubricant demand – including process and marine oils – is expected to increase at a compound annual rate of less than 1 percent, to ...

Asia-Pacific's synthetic lubricants demand will expand at a compound annual rate of more than 6 percent to 2020, with Japan and South Korea leading th ...

More Chinese blenders are registering their lubricants under NSF Internationals program for food-grade compounds. The latest to do so, Beijia Lubricat ...

Despite economic slowdown and political uncertainty that has hindered key countries in the region, demand for finished lubricants in Latin America and ...

Lube Sales: Where the Money Is

November 23, 2016

What do sales and marketing managers at U.S. lubricant companies earn? According to an exclusive survey conducted recently by LubesnGreases magazine, ...

Sri Lankas demand for marine lubricants plummeted last year, and some observers blame high import duties for driving up local costs and steering shipo ...