SINGAPORE – Demand for higher quality lubricants is rising fast in China, the worlds largest lubricants market. At the same time, nearly every c ...

Russian lubricant marketer Lukoil launched its key European brand Genesis in Russia last week, reaffirming its grip on the countrys automotive lubes m ...

TUCSON, Ariz. – The world’s lubricant companies produced an impressive 2.47 billion pounds of lubricating grease in 2012, according to new ...

The European Lubricating Grease Institute and the European Committee for Standardization both want to create a standard for greases to reduce noise an ...

The U.S. Department of Agricultures BioPreferred program finalized its 10th round of procurement regulations, which specify that engine crankcase oil ...

Mag Lubricants new 60,000 tons per year blending plant in Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates, is fully operational following a $50 million investment fro ...

Loadmaster Lubricants announced a $2 million expansion that will double grease production capacity at its 80,000 square foot Hugo, Minn., facility. T ...

Martin Midstream Partners announced last week that it expects to close on its acquisition of NL Grease by the end of July 2013. The Kilgore, Texas-ba ...

DETROIT – Myriad forces are buffeting the metalworking fluid industry, making it difficult to know how formulations will look in the future. At ...

Valvoline Cummins Ltd. has opened a plant in India with capacity to manufacture and package 120 million liters of lubricants per year, with possible e ...

Japanese petroleum giant Idemitsu Kosan established a new lubricant sales company in Mexico that is slated to begin operations in June. According to ...

Total will expand and upgrade its lubricant blending plant in Durban, South Africa, as part of a plan to increase its market share in that country and ...

Malaysian lube manufacturer Hyrax Oil plans to construct a blending plant in Mozambique by the end of this year, in partnership with that countrys sta ...

Rosnefts Novokuibyshevsk oils and additives plant recently started producing marine lubes under BPs Castrol brand for the Russian market. Under the a ...

MUMBAI, India – India is now the worlds third-largest lubricant market, and its base oil producers are gearing up to provide the high quality oi ...

Lonza will shut down its biocide plant in Swords, Ireland, in June as part of a corporate cost-cutting effort, the company announced Thursday in its f ...

Led by strong growth in Asia, global demand for general industrial oils is projected to grow from 6.5 million metric tons in 2011 to 7.2 million tons ...

Gulf Oil Argentinas 6,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Le Reja, Argentina, last week reached full production capacity for the fir ...

Gazprom Neft Lubricants added a new product line designed for Russia’s Far East region and Central Asia, and expanded its presence in Mongolia a ...

Clean Harbors promoted Executive Vice President of Environmental Sales Jerry Correll to president of Safety-Kleen Environmental Services, replacing Ro ...