The biggest blending tank or fastest packaging line alone won't make you a world champion lube plant. But good management can, a benchmarking survey s ...

PC-11 still has to clear some steep hurdles before its April 2016 debut. Could a new SAE viscosity grade help carry the diesel oil category over the f ...

Steve Swedberg gives us a free-wheeling tour through the engine oils needed for two-wheelers.

Tom Glenn wonders why lubricant distributors got supersized over the past decade.

Calumet Specialty Products Partners acquired United Petroleum Co., a wholesale distributor of motor oils, coolants and greases. Terms were not disclos ...

Warren Oil is suing Smittys Supply Inc. for trade dress and trademark infringement on its automatic transmission fluid sold in Bolivia, alleging that ...

Competition appears to be heating up in South Korea's lubricant market with Hyundai Oilbank's entry into the scene. The refiner is still ramping up it ...

Consumers in the Indian state of Delhi pay a significant price for a 21 percent value added tax that the government assesses on lubricants. Lubricant ...

The Asia-Pacific region accounted for an estimated 42 percent of global lubricant consumption in 2013, an official with Fuchs Petrolub told an industr ...

The bazaar may be an ancient part of commerce in India, but the countrys lubricant industry appears to be discovering it once again. Insiders say supp ...

Chinese demand for machine tools will grow more than 9 percent annually for the next four years, according to forecasts by a United States industry re ...

Synthetic esters are enjoying healthy demand growth, according to a Croda official, especially for lubricant applications that require high technical ...

Shell agreed last week to sell downstream operations in Australia to Swiss energy trader Vitol. The transaction includes lubricant sales activities bu ...

Silogram Lubricants of New York filed a complaint last month against more than a dozen former employees and several competitors, contending that the g ...

South Koreas demand for lubricating oil is projected to increase slightly to 917,137 metric tons in 2014, according to a report by the Korea Lubricati ...

Hi-Tech Lubricants Ltd. held a ceremony last week marking the start of construction for a lubricant packaging plant in Lahore, Pakistan. The facility ...

Foam control is more critical in metalworking fluids because of the higher cutting speeds and higher pressures being used today. Two industry experts ...

Otto Botz of Rowe Minerallwerk GmbH examines the capabilities and future prospects for biolubricants.

Future energy demand and regulations for reduced emissions, improved fuel economy and better energy efficiency will drive the development of top-line ...

Joe Beeton reports on the continuing use of formaldehyde in metalworking fluids.