Finished Lubricants

Lubricating grease production in North America declined 17% in 2020, according to the National Lubricating Grease Institute’s latest yearly survey. ...

As the marine shipping industry transitions to engines using new fuel types that generate less carbon dioxide, cylinder oil development will need to c ...

Independent lubricant blender Fuchs Petrolub, based in Mannheim, Germany, acquired Swedish company Gleitmo Technik AB’s lubricants business, the com ...

India’s Standard Greases and Specialties Pvt. earlier this week purchased a stake in Archit Organosys, which produces organic chemicals, pigments, s ...

Lubes'n'Greases talked to Mark Miller, the CEO of Biosynthetic Technologies, about the sustainability of his company’s products and why he thinks su ...

Royal Dutch Shell on Monday agreed to sell its lubricant business in Brazil to Raizen, the energy company joint venture that has served as its lubes d ...

The vast majority of Russian-made heavy machinery, smelters in steel and cast-iron complexes, machines in power plants, bearings installed in producti ...

The global electric vehicle lubricant market is expected to grow from 10 million liters in 2020 to 60 million liters in 2025, driven by the booming re ...

Sinopec announced recently that it is proceeding with plans to build a petrochemical refining complex in Tianjin, China, and that it will include a fi ...

Finished lubricants consumption in Japan grew 22% year-to-year in April, compared to the same month last year. It marked the third consecutive month t ...

A fire broke out Saturday night at Ergon’s refinery in Newell, West Virginia, damaging a fuels unit and forcing the whole facility to shut down. The ...

Spotlight on Grease

June 1, 2021

Figures from the National Lubricating Grease Institute’s 2019 Annual Production Survey showed that although lithium remains the dominant thickener f ...

United Kingdom-based Exol Lubricants announced it has begun redevelopment of its Rotherham site to increase lubricant blending capabilities, with comp ...

There are over 140,000 miles of freight and passenger railroad tracks in both the United States and Europe. As train wheels spin, move and grind to a ...

Castrol recently announced a partnership with packaging technology company Pulpex – which has developed a technology that forms bottles from wood pu ...

The lubricant industry bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of 2020, as demand recovered to pre-outbreak levels after sagging as much as ...

Chevron Lubricants Lanka Plc. reported large increases in profit and sales for the quarter ending March 31, compared to the same period last year, and ...

Ampol announced Monday that it will keep open its Lytton, Australia, refinery – which includes a finished lubricant blending plant – after agreein ...

Thailand’s central government is working to develop its palm oil industry, and the strategy includes promoting demand for bio-lubricants, -greases a ...

Moove, Cosan’s lubricants arm, reported increases in profit, revenue and sales volume for the first quarter of 2021, building off of a strong end to ...