A large majority of European manufacturers - but not those in Russia - are adopting some form of Industry 4.0 technology, yet many believe these techn ...

BPs lubricant business profits decreased 20 percent to $311 million in the fourth quarter, down from $375 million during the year-earlier period.

Cosmo Oil and Spanish refiner Cepsa are discussing ways of aligning lubricant businesses and may use each other's blending plants to do so.

Hill Corp. recently finished building a used oil rerefinery and a small grease unit at its lubricant blending plant in Shymkent, in southern Kazakhsta ...

Marine lubricant demand remained on its steady - if slightly declining - course in 2018, totaling an estimated 2.3 million tons, according to consulta ...

Pugh Lubricants, Apollo Oil, Veterans Oil and Halco Lubricants, which identify themselves as a single lubricant and fuel distributor, announced two ac ...

A majority of manufacturers in the United States are adopting some Industry 4.0 technologies, although many are still skeptical that the benefits of a ...

Biskra, Algeria-based Sarl Sopremac opened a lube oil blending plant in Algeria that has already begun production of multigrade motor oils and industr ...

Russian chemical producer Orgkhim expanded its process oil production in Uren, Nizhny Novgorod, from 110,000 tons per year to 130,000 t/y by adding a ...

BASF increased lubricant antioxidant capacity at its Puebla, Mexico, site to keep up with growing demand for additives that lengthen the life of lubri ...

State-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. is entering the finished lubricant business, stating that it will commence blending and marketing finish ...

Steve Swedberg warns of the increasing entropy in the oil spec development process.

Tom Glenn explains what motivates car dealer service shops to use OEM genuine motor oil.

A small, Colorado-based blender has high-performance biobased lubes in its sights. The ammo? Colloidal dispersion.

Bangchak Corp. and SCG Chemical Co. signed a memorandum of understanding last month to develop a lubricant packaging recycling scheme in Thailand.

The Philippines Bureau of Customs implemented a second tranche of its Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law, taxing a number of products, incl ...

Kraton Corp. last month lifted its force majeure declaration for its North American tall oil fatty acid and distilled tall oil product lines. The comp ...

WD-40 Co. reported net income of $13.3 million for the quarter ending Nov. 30, a 5 percent increase from $12.6 million in the same period a year earli ...

An American Chemistry Council committee proposed a plan last week for the ILSAC GF-6 passenger car engine oil category to be completed and brought to ...

Russia's lubricant market had a healthy year in 2018 thanks to growth of the overall economy, including several segments that are big consumers of lub ...