The falling costs for wind energy turbines in China, where high coal prices have caused a number of power shortages during 2021, could represent a gro ...

Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has acquired Chemsolv Inc., a Virginia-based regional distributor of commodity and specialty chemicals, including ...

WD-40 Co. reported net income of $18.6 million for the quarter ending Nov. 30, a 21% decrease from $23.6 million in the same period in 2020. The compa ...

China recently halted land-based import of a variety of Russian products, including finished lubricants, after authorities found COVID-19 virus on som ...

Investment firm SK Capital has completed its purchase of a controlling stake in Seqens, a French producer of chemicals for pharmaceuticals, as well as ...

The changing landscape for lubricants and greases means that bench tests must also evolve. How are bench tests supporting solutions to new lubrication ...

The base stocks used to formulate lubricants for electric vehicles are vital to performance. What are the best options?

The transition to electric vehicles is imminent, but the speed of adoption remains debatable. Explore the factors that may influence how quickly EVs w ...

There were eight finished lubricant price increases in 2021. What led to these increases, and how have market conditions been affected?

Japan’s finished lubricant demand dropped by more than 10% in November, compared to the same month last year, but was up a bit from October, accordi ...

The board of directors of Japan’s KH Neochem Co. decided on Dec. 27 to invest ¥9.5 billion at its manufacturing plant in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefe ...

Private equity firm American Industrial Partners announced last week that it has acquired RelaDyne, one of the leaders of the consolidation trend in N ...

Agricultural products company Cargill Inc. has agreed to buy most of Croda International Plc’s Performance Technologies and Industrial Chemicals uni ...

Jiangsu Zhongsheng Gaoke Environmental Co. reported a 30% year-to-year drop in net income for the third quarter, on revenue that was 20% lower than th ...

As electric vehicle sales in Europe, North America and Asia accelerate, passenger car motor oil demand could decline rapidly in a few years time, acco ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch Dec. 24 on a NASA mission from French Guiana, will rely on a proprietary oil provided by Nye Lubri ...

ExxonMobil entered a joint development agreement with biobased base stock manufacturer BioAccelergy to commercially scale the latter’s products, the ...

France consumed 46,886 metric tons of finished lubricants in October, once again running behind the same month of 2020, according to the latest data f ...

Ongoing innovation helps ensure the lubricants industry will continue to play a role as the world transitions to a more sustainable future and continu ...

Benefiting from expanded sales at home and abroad, Rosneft sold 208,000 tons of finished lubricants and greases in the first nine months of 2021, a 26 ...