Finished Lubricants

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP, which has struggled to make profits in recent years, is considering a sale of its finished lubricants business ...

French lubricant company Condat SA last week finalized the acquisition of Kemno, a specialist lubricant and coolant company based in Milan. The takeov ...

Custom Content – Valvoline, one of the world’s leading lubricant and automotive suppliers, has made a frictionless move towards establishing itsel ...

Gulf Makes Lubes for S-Oil

October 2, 2020

Gulf Oil Lubricants International Ltd. has agreed to manufacture and market S-Oil lubricants in India – a deal that will mark S-Oil’s entry into t ...

Ampol will blend, distribute and market Mobil lubricants in Australia under a marketing alliance with ExxonMobil announced yesterday.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the lubricants industry, but it’s not the only factor forcing industry players to change up their game plans. Suz ...

Some formulators are watching nervously as the United States Environmental Protection Agency reviews the safety of a widely used family of biocides.

Automotive

October 1, 2020

Quality Is Not as Simple as It Seems  Quality is at the heart of the oil business. We all subscribe to the position that if our products meet ...

There are a number of potential avenues of development and challenges for electric vehicle lubricant formulators, but whatever path they take, compreh ...

Several major and independent lubricant marketers notified customers of finished lubricant price hikes in the United States that will take effect in O ...

Allison Announces New ATF Spec

September 30, 2020

Allison Transmission announced yesterday its newest automatic transmission fluid specification for on-highway equipment. TES 668 fluids will be availa ...

Lukoil’s LLK International and Total’s subsidiary in Russia both suffered setbacks due to the country’s COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year, but ...

Total Acquires Lubrilog

September 29, 2020

French energy major Total announced last week that it had acquired Lubrilog SAS, thereby strengthening Total’s presence across several industrial lu ...

India’s economic recovery from COVID-19 lockdowns is progressing, with encouraging signs in automotive, industrial and agricultural segments boding ...

Advice for lubricant manufacturers weathering the COVID-19 storm continues to point toward finding new sources of revenue. During a Sept. 16 webinar o ...

Lubricant demand in France rebounded after bottoming out in April and in June actually ran ahead of sales from the same month of 2019, according to da ...

An appeals court in Serbia is expected to hand out a final verdict soon to the owner of lube marketer Fam’s former operator in a decade-old embezzl ...

China’s commercial vehicle lubricant market is showing signs of recovery thanks to increases in distances traveled, according to speakers at an indu ...

Lubricant supplier Lanka IOC reported a steep net loss, and the lubricants business segment of Malaysian state-owned oil firm Petronas’ domestic mar ...

Fluor Corp. announced on Sept. 15 that it safely achieved mechanical completion of Valvoline’s lubricants blending plant in Zhangjiagang, China, ahe ...