GF-6, the next passenger car engine oil category proposed for first licensing in January 2016, is taking shape. Unlike its predecessors, it will be di ...

Freudenberg North America anticipates hiring more employees and investing in capital expenditures over the next two years in New Hampshire, including ...

Lukoil is developing a 270,000 tons per year blending plant at its Volgograd refinery, trying to firmly hold its grip on the domestic and internationa ...

The next heavy-duty engine oil upgrade, known as PC-11, took center stage June 26 during ASTM Committee D-2’s technical week in San Francisco. T ...

Safety-Kleen has begun blending engine oils at its new $15 million East Chicago, Ind., facility, which was completed in late June. Dave Sprinkle, Saf ...

Castrol India reported that its second quarter income fell to 1.21 billion rupees (U.S. $21.9 million), a decrease of 15.16 percent from last years se ...

WD-40 posted net income of $9.1 million for the quarter ending May 31, up 11 percent from the year-ago period, with net sales up 1.8 percent at $87 mi ...

A dramatic increase in export numbers reported by Belarus for base oils and lubricants in the first quarter of 2012 has many observers of the Russian ...

The worlds lubricating grease manufacturers created nearly 2.4 billion pounds of the stuff during 2011, a record-high volume, according to data releas ...

Health Canada postponed lowering the limits on the popular metalworking fluid biocide triazine to 500 ppm, a change originally scheduled to go into ef ...

MOSCOW – Russias inability to produce high quality base oils and lube additives is problematic, but the bigger issue it faces today is the lack ...

Independent lubricant blender Fuchs Petrolub plans a A.$5 million expansion in Australia of its Sunshine facility and a major redevelopment of its New ...

Citgo sued distributor Mid-State Energy and subsidiary Highland Oil, alleging they sold poor quality, non-Citgo bulk lubricants falsely labeled with C ...

Calumet Specialty Products continued its recent path of aggressive growth last week when it purchased Royal Purple, a privately held commercial and in ...

Gazprom Neft opened its new 70,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Omsk, Western Siberia, and expects an additional 110,000 t/y upgr ...

The former president of a South Carolina lubricant blender was arrested in May on charges of exporting aviation oils in violation of a U.S. economic e ...

Specialty hydrocarbon producer Calumet will expand its Indianapolis corporate headquarters and in the process create 48 new positions by 2015. With ...

ST. LOUIS-The search for cost-effective alternatives to formaldehyde-releasing biocides in metalworking fluids, which face severe regulatory restricti ...

Prices for Castrol brand finished lubricants will increase up to 4 percent effective June 18, BP Lubricants USA recently told its customers. The incr ...

Neftgazsbyt acquired a 51.9 percent stake in the Mendeleev-Rusoil fuel refinery and lubricants plant from Slavneft for an undisclosed amount. The sal ...