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A slew of lubricants, specialty chemicals and IT infrastructure companies have launched or announced upcoming development partnerships of data center ...

June Base Oil Report

June 5, 2025

Some paraffinic and naphthenic base oil prices have dipped. Gabriela Wheeler explains why.

ILSAC GF-7 is here. Steve Haffner outlines the tools used to deploy the new specification.

Some lubricant suppliers are spearheading innovation with focused investments in advanced formulations, sustainable products and automation-centric lu ...

How are manufacturers investing in innovative materials and designs to enhance the safety, sustainability and performance of lubricant packaging?

The implementation of Industry 4.0 in automation technologies is expected to increase the need for lubricants in advanced machinery and robotics. Raj ...

Al Yates examines how oil analysis and filter debris analysis are vital to wind turbine reliability programs.

Russia’s finished lubricant market held steady at around 1.8 million tons in 2024, as domestic producers focused on improving efficiency and product ...

New appointments and promotions.

Some base oil suppliers continued to observe a steady stream of orders, while others have started to see signs of softening demand. This situation was ...

As part of its inquiry into lubricant dumping in the United Kingdom, the U.K.’s Trade Remedies Authority could not reconcile discrepancies in inform ...

Briefly Noted

June 3, 2025

Perstorp, the Swedish specialty chemicals manufacturer owned by Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad, has launched a new portfolio of saturated synthetic p ...

Europe’s electric vehicle segment is still gaining market share. That is, except for Tesla.

Zeller+Gmelin, a chemical company based in Germany, has opened a lubricant production facility in Huzhou, China, as part of its expansion in Asia.

Base oil prices this week are largely stable across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but there are variations between regions. For example, demand ...

BP Plc launched the sale of its Castrol lubricants division, a potential U.S.$10 billion transaction.

The Asian base oils market has entered a more restrained demand period because of seasonal events such as the monsoons in parts of Southeast Asia and ...

Fundamentals were relatively stable for base oils and lubricants as the summer driving season unofficially got underway on Memorial Day, May 26 – in ...

Briefly Noted

May 28, 2025

Specialty chemical company Pilot Chemical and low-crabon base oil company Novvi entered into an exclusive partnership to introduce biobased alpha olef ...

Europe’s oleochemicals industry is urging lawmakers in Brussels to widen the scope of the European Union Deforestation Regulation.