Finished Lubricants

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd., Apar Industries’ transformer oil and specialty oil segment, Balmer Lawrie’s grease segment, Savita Oil and Maximus ...

Afton Chemical recorded higher operating profit in the fourth quarter, but weaker full-year results, while Valvoline posted increases in sales and ope ...

A joint venture of United States-based Colonial Chemical Inc. announced on Jan. 20 that it broke ground on a specialty chemicals factory that will be ...

United Kingdom-based transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group Plc continues working on a refinancing package for its plant in the United States, but i ...

Lub-rref Wrapping Up IPO

February 5, 2021

Bangladesh lubricant marketer Lub-rref began the second half of its initial public stock offering last week, opening its sale of shares to the public ...

Castrol India reported a 30% decline in profits for 2020, although the company said it rebounded during the second half of the year, as demand gradual ...

Bergman & Beving’s Tools & Consumables division acquired all shares in fellow Swedish company Germa AB, which develops and manufactures equipment fo ...

A Partner to Power

February 1, 2021

In the January issue, The Strategy Works examined the economic and geopolitical forces driving the global uptake of stationary gas engines for power g ...

The novel coronavirus pandemic took its toll around the world, putting pressure on economies and shutting down demand for many products, including lub ...

Automotive

February 1, 2021

Transmission Fluids  Back in the Twilight Zone (also known as 2020), I commented on a note that I had received from Allen Comfort. For those o ...

An appeals court last week upheld a decision by the United States Patent Trial and Appeals Board granting a petition by Chevron Oronite to invalidate ...

Cometic Gasket announced yesterday the acquisition of Indiana-based Klotz Synthetic Lubricants, which blends and packages lubricants for the automotiv ...

Shell’s United States lubricants business and Whitmore Manufacturing LLC will form a joint venture to provide industrial products and services to th ...

Xeriant, a start-up in the aerospace industry, has jumped into the lubricants business, too, launching a line of metal conditioners and other lubes fo ...

Advanced Lubrication Specialties acquired the assets of Newark, New Jersey-based blender American Oil & Supply International LLC in a deal describ ...

Lubricant sales in France were 2% lower in November than in the same month of 2019, according to data released recently by an industry organization, f ...

Launches, installations and innovations carried on regardless through the second pandemic upsurge in Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia. ...

Electric vehicle sales have been rising in the affluent countries of the West, where per capita income and environmental awareness are high. But wealt ...

Japan consumed 124,191 kiloliters (111,700 metric tons) of finished lubricants in November last year, down 23% from November 2019, according to data r ...

India’s central government will probably break apart Balmer Lawrie & Co. and divest its units – including its greases and lubricants business ...