While there are plenty of electric vehicles to suit every budget and taste in China, the average price of an EV is still above their conventional coun ...

Japan consumed 133,229 kiloliters of finished lubricants in October, up 17% from October 2019, according to data released last week by a government ag ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency concluded Monday that perchloroethylene does not pose an unreasonable risk to human health when used ...

German lubricants producer Oest Group has installed tanks with capacity to store 480,000 liters of raw materials at its blending plant in Freudenstadt ...

Shell, Lukoil and ExxonMobil remained the most popular motor oil brands in Russia in 2020, as they were two years ago, according to a recent survey of ...

Lubricant sales in France totaled 47,979 metric tons in October, according to data released today by the Professional Lubricants Center, the second co ...

Gulf Oil International announced Tuesday that it has agreed to purchase a Singapore lubricant blending plant from Ocean Tankers (Pte), the shipping ar ...

A recent study forecasts an 8% supply deficit for crude tall oil for all applications by 2030 because of high demand for its use in transportation-rel ...

Government requirements for environmentally acceptable lubricants are relatively simple, but performance properties of products available to the shipp ...

China’s vehicle population, forecast to surpass the United States’ by the end of this year, has been transitioning to more powerful cars and truck ...

In Japan, KH Neochem Co. reported steep declines in third-quarter operating income and net sales for its performance materials segment, while metalwor ...

IMO 2020’s lower sulfur cap had a profound impact on the marine lubricant landscape, changing not only oil formulations but also some of the wear me ...

Royal Dutch Shell remained the world’s largest lubricant supplier in 2019, maintaining the top spot for the 14th consecutive year, according to esti ...

The Readers Have Spoken  My wife and I were watching beach volleyball in Laguna Beach, California, on January 1. As the sun set, one player ye ...

At the end of March, India implemented the world’s most stringent lockdown in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, shutting down all of its m ...

Electrification of the global vehicle parc is coming, but will it swoop in like a blizzard or creep in at a glacial pace? The answer is somewhere in b ...

A key test for evaluating the lubricity of metal removal fluids has been retired and a new one screwed into place in January, reported Dennis Mahoney ...

Sinopec lube business arm Great Wall and Tsinghua University’s Tianjin Research Institute for Advanced Equipment formed a joint research center in T ...

Lanka IOC said recently that it expects to complete construction of Sri Lanka’s first grease plant by the end of this year and that the 3,000 metric ...

South Korean base oil refiner GS Caltex and Thai Oil’s base oil business both posted large increases in net profit for the quarter ending Sept. 30.