The American Petroleum Institute will cease its provisional licensing of ILSAC GF-5 and API SN, SM, SL and SJ passenger car motor oil categories after ...

Fuchs Petrolub SE agreed to acquire Delaware-based Ultrachem, which produces and markets specialty synthetic lubricants for the compressor original eq ...

Allegheny Petroleum and its distributor partner Paramount Trading Jamaica Ltd. will build a 7,500 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Ki ...

Profits were up for Valvoline, South Korean base oil refiners SK Lubricants and S-Oil, and BPs lubricants business for the quarter ending in June, com ...

Kyodo Yushi Co. announced last week that it has finished building a synthetic grease plant in Kameyama city in Japans Mie prefecture. While the nation ...

Tom Glenn counts lubricant distributors, as another wave of consolidation washes over the market.

Sara Lefcourt looks down the road at ride sharings potential influence on the lubricants industry.

The U.S. Air Force is giving biobased automotive oils a chance to prove their mettle. Will green lubes win over this lucrative market?

Energy-hungry hydraulics, beware! New research shows viscosity index improvers can boost industrial system performance by 10 percent -- or more.

Italian packaging equipment manufacturer OCME is looking to consolidate its position in the African market. At a seminar on sustainability and product ...

LubesnGreases EMEA has surveyed the industry to determine the Top 20 lubricant suppliers and the Top 10 additive suppliers worldwide. Weve mined a var ...

The electric car revolution is shifting the automotive industry to the use of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries as power sources. Unfortunately, the ...

Caitlin Jacobs reviews the latest global grease production numbers.

German metalworking fluids manufacturer Oelheld recently broke ground on a 23,400 square foot manufacturing and warehouse facility in West Dundee, Ill ...

American Refining Group committed to a 33.3 percent equity investment in Novvi LLC – a joint venture of Amyris and Cosan – and, through it ...

With testing for existing engine oil specifications becoming tenuous, the API Auto Oil Advisory Panel expressed concern recently that introduction of ...

WD-40 posted net income of $12.7 million for the quarter ending May 31, up 16 percent from a year earlier, with net sales up 4 percent at $96.4 millio ...

Industrial lubricant giant Houghton International acquired metalworking fluids manufacturer Wallover Oil for an undisclosed amount, part of an aggress ...

MOSCOW – Russias consumption of engine oils for on-road vehicles stagnated in 2015, but vehicle usage rates are rising as is the proportion of o ...

Booming globalization has the worldwide marine lubes market growing at a rate of more than 4 percent per year in the next four years, and Asia - the l ...