Finished Lubricants

Base Oil Traders Sling Barbs

February 13, 2013

Shamrock Shipping and Trading has warned that any deals concluded by a former employee and his current employer, Feedco, may be challenged in court. I ...

Pertamina Expands into U.A.E.

February 13, 2013

PT Pertamina is collaborating with Sharjah National Lube Oil Co. (Sharlu) to manufacture and market Meditran Series marine lubricants in the United Ar ...

Gulf Considers Lubes Demerger

February 13, 2013

Gulf Oil Corp. Ltd. may demerge its lubricants business into a separately listed company, according to a Feb. 8 filing with the National Stock Exchang ...

Milacron Gets Mold-Masters

February 13, 2013

Milacron will acquire 100 percent of hot-runner manufacturer Mold-Masters’s shares for $975 million. Milacrons Cimcool industrial fluids segment ...

Russian oil major Lukoil is building a 100,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Kazakhstan. According to an official Kazakh governme ...

PMC Group completed the acquisition of Dow Chemicals global methyl tin stabilizers and solid lubricants business, including a manufacturing facility i ...

Filter Maker Plans Expansion

February 6, 2013

Baldwin Filters plans to break ground this spring on a new 400,000 square foot distribution center at its headquarters location in Nebraska. The comp ...

ROSENHEIM, Germany – Lubricant formulators have been pushed hard enough to improve product performance. Now theyll also have to worry about wher ...

Gazprom to Oil Chinese Cars

January 30, 2013

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft-SM forged a technical and marketing partnership with the Chinese automaker Lifan, the energy giant said last week. ...

Chem-Trend and Kluber Lubrication India, business units of Freudenberg Group, are building a regional technical center in Mysore, India, for their spe ...

Dexron Going Beyond ATF

January 23, 2013

General Motors Powertrain is extending its Dexron brand beyond automatic transmission fluid and gear oil, and is preparing to offer hydraulic fluid, m ...

Shell on Friday announced the opening of its new 30,000 metric tons per year grease plant in Zhuhai, in Chinas Guangdong province. The grease plant, ...

Lubricating Specialties Co. has completed the startup phase of its new blending and packaging facility in Azusa, Calif. The company also promoted Sydn ...

Raaj Unocal Lubricants will manufacture and market co-branded engine oils exclusively for Hindustan Motors vehicles under an agreement signed in Kolka ...

Sea Horse Petrochemicals, one of Turkeys biggest lubricant marketers, recently broke ground on a new 600,000 tons per year blending plant, boasting it ...

ORourke Petroleum recently acquired Penco Oil in East Texas. Both companies are Shell lubricants distributors. Mush Khan, president and chief operati ...

Rosneft Starts 2013 Off Big

January 16, 2013

Rosneft, one of Russia’s biggest lubricants marketers, increased its supply of automotive lubricants in 2012 and recently introduced two key pro ...

WD-40 Posts Strong Results

January 9, 2013

Net income for WD-40 totaled $10.9 million for the quarter ending Nov. 30, up 61 percent from the prior year period, while net sales were up 12 percen ...

Martin Midstream Partners L.P. acquired lubricants distributor Talens Marine and Fuel for $47.4 million. Martin purchased Jennings, La.-based Talens ...

MOSCOW-Russias fast growing vehicle market is causing significant changes in the country’s motor oil sales, stricter compliance by lube manufact ...