Emeka Umejei examines how the flight of dollars from Nigeria is strangling the market.

The shipping industry is facing a crisis, prompting analysts to warn of a negative impact on the marine lubricants business.

While the spotlight has been on increasing engine and drivetrain life and efficiency, there was little or no focus on grease.

Balkan lubricant markets have shrunk significantly in the last several years due to faltering economies and an influx of imported products.

APIs newly adopted twin heavy-duty diesel engine oil categories are unlikely to receive broad early use in developing Asian countries due to issues of ...

A fire erupted at Axel Americas LLCs manufacturing facility in Rosedale, Miss., on Feb. 29, damaging recently installed process equipment. The company ...

Petronas Lubricants International last month began construction of a blending plant in the Ezeiza Industrial Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where it ...

MJL Bangladesh announced that it obtained a license from the government to offer marine lubricants duty-free to ocean-going vessels. The Dhaka-based c ...

Phillips 66 Lubricants announced it will eliminate two of its four lubricant brands – Conoco and 76 Lubricants – and continue marketing oi ...

Shell plans to close a lubricants blending plant on the west coast of Trinidad – an island in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, just northeast of ...

ExxonMobil and Shell each recently notified U.S. customers of modest cuts in finished lubricant prices, perhaps launching a round of markdowns that th ...

Perstorp announced recently that it may build a world-scale pentaerythritol factory in India to better position itself to supply the chemical for lubr ...

Metalworking fluid formulators must find ways to keep microbes out as regulations creep in limiting the use of tried and true biocides.

Despite economic woes and political turmoil that have dampened overall sales volumes, the continent keeps trucking toward synthetic lubricants.

With decades of successful use in lubricant plants and some new technology popping up, air blending techniques keep rising to the top.

Invista recently announced plans to close its Victoria, Texas, plant on March 31. At that site the company manufactures C12 intermediates, which inclu ...

Axel Americas completed expansion of its grease plant in Mississippi, done in response to growing demand for its industrial and automotive greases sup ...

Nigerian officials said a shortage of textile lubricants contributed to the downfall of the countrys textile industry, but blenders there told Lube Re ...

Despite a 4 percent drop in Southeast Asias sales of four-wheel vehicles in 2015 and a 12 percent slide in motorcycle and scooter sales, industry anal ...

Lapping is a highly precise metal removal process that produces extremely flat surfaces with very low roughness. Additives must be carefully matched t ...